Dear Reader,
Thanks for reading this blog and encouraging me to write more. It has been a while since my last weekly notes. Sometimes, life so eventful that I miss documenting them.
For past few months, I am super busy with work, reading, summer and more.
Here are a few notes from my daily journal.
- Gave an online talk on “Daily life at an IT company” in Tamil. Spoke about various departments, their activities, the problems they all solve. Check the slides here – https://archive.org/details/look-inside-it-company
See the video in Tamil here –
- Nithya gave a talk at an online seminar arranged by the college she studied “Sri Sankara arts & science college, kanchipuram” along with her friend Brinda, on “Recent trends on IT”.
- Completed reading the Tamil Translation of the book “The Origin” by Don Brown. It was a 800+ pages book. Translation was very good. Never felt like reading a translation book. Don’s writings show a magical world in front of our eyes, all with plain text. In this novel, he questions on religions, god, power, greed and shows the possibilities of AI bots ruling the future of human. Dont miss to read this, if you like to spend few days to weeks on a new world.
- I use WordPress to host few websites for friends. When the hosting company moved their servers to another vendors, lost those sites. Learnt the necessary of backups of the websites in a hard way. The cloud team of annaitech.in helped to restore few sites from their backup. They recreated few websites as fresh. Started to use https://managewp.com/ to have backups for all wordpress sites.
- Visited High park, Toronto with family. Kids enjoyed a lot. Saw the animal Llama for the first time.
- Summer is finally here. Spending good times with children on weekends. Dining at park benches are awesome.
- Viyan is grown. I am playing shuttle with him. Talking with him on various subjects like women rights, religion , science, history, castes, reservations, why Tamilnadu is against hindi imposition etc. His questions are good. We both do research, read books, watch videos and learn together. If we answer the questions of kids on god honestly, we will become atheists naturally.
- Tamil school for kids had a good annual day with cultural dances and songs. The efforts of people here to make the language alive are awesome.
- with KanchiLUG friends, we are writing python code for Tolkappym rules. We meet every saturday and discuss. Minutes are here – https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues/214
- Mississauga city had an election for Mayor. Attended a meeting with a debate of 3 candidates with HeartComonos Team. Good to listen to the politicians and local issues here.
- Started to collect sharable Tamil plain text data for LLM researches. Documenting the progress here – https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues/198
https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2024/06/16/collecting-content-for-llm-dataset-part-2-freetamilebooks/
- Announced an online course on machine learning in Tamil – https://kaniyam.com/ml-training-2024/ We are not getting enough participants. Will wait for two more weeks and then will decide to go for it or cancel it.
- Happy to read weekly notes from Parathan, Stilanka – Read them here – https://weekly-notes.parathan.com/ His blog and a talk with Dinesh Parasakthi inspired me to resume the weekly notes here. Thanks for all who are motivating me in all the ways.
- Taking many photographs of people, nature and streets. But no time to process them all. Have to process them and upload to Wikipedia commons.
- Watched few movies. When Viyan discussed about DNA, Cloning etc, watched the movie “Jurassic Park”. Then, “Termininator 2”. Hope we will watch “The Matrix” soon. Enjoyed watching “Aavesham”, “Laapataa Ladies” , Jawaan, HotSpot, Manjummel Boys, Vasool Raja MBBS.
- Last weekend with with kids to an indoor Arcade game center. They enjoyed playing games with Arcade centers.
- From next week, kids get two month summer holidays. We will be living and working at the library mostly.
Going GNU 