Thejesh GN

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A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.

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  • Ride to Tamarind Valley Collective

    I wanted to visit TVC to monitor the construction of the house and help Kiran set up the fiber backbone for internet ...

  • Weekly Notes 25/2026

    I am back from Chennai. It was fun meeting lots of students, hearing what they think, etc. This time I met some old-t...

  • Thank you for attending Back to Basics: Build Your Own LLM from Scratch

    I sent this email to all workshop attendees. It made sense to publish it as a post as well. Thank you for attending t...

  • Development as Freedom

    This time, my trip to Chennai was also a road trip. I got a ride with friends in the car, and it also gave us lots of...

  • Back to Basics: Build Your Own LLM from Scratch

    I did a workshop titled “Back to Basics: Build Your Own LLM from Scratch”, which kind of included some basic theory o...

  • Weekly Notes 24/2026

    I am at IITM/Chennai for Paradox. I have been here since 2022, since the first Paradox. The fest and the crowd have g...

  • Exploring Epicure the Food Embedding Model

    FlavorGraph is a large-scale graph network that combines data from over a million recipes with chemical compound info...

  • Weekly Notes 23/2026

    It’s been a good week in general. The work schedule is back under control. I am getting back to normalcy there. I als...

  • Uma’s New Playlist

    We have updated Uma’s playlist on her radio. It’s no baby rhymes now. It has carefully selected songs. Currently, U20...

  • Who Calls a Child Anti-National?

    A CBSE student raised a question about his misplaced answer sheets. Instead of empathy or a call for accountability, ...

  • Micro-granting in India – BoF at IndiaFOSS/2026

    I have proposed BoF (Birds of Feather) session and discussion at IndiaFOSS/2026. The proposal is yet to be approved a...

  • Weekly Notes 22/2026

    This Saturday, we drove to Palakkad to meet Pradeep and Dhanya. It was a short morning walk and breakfast meet. We me...

  • Weekly Notes 21/2026

    I was in Chennai for the first half of the week. I couldn’t get a confirmed 1st or 2nd class train ticket. So I had t...

  • Embedding user code in your app using Extism

    Every application I love has some kind of power-user mode where I can add my own code or scripting to make it useful ...

  • Weekly Notes 20/2026

    We are in Thrissur. We left at around 2 AM and reached by 11 AM, with two breaks. The drive was comfortable. The traf...

  • Weekly Notes 19/2026

    My first, full-fledged in-class course at APU ended this week. The final round of assessments is yet to be done. I am...

  • Weekly Notes 18/2026

    It’s been a busy week, both at work and at home. I think the heat also made the week much more tiring, but thankfully...

  • Weekly Notes 17/2026

    NMG 2026 results are out. If you are a grantee, congratulations. This is the 9th edition of 2026 and the biggest both...

  • Nagarathna Memorial Grant – 2026 – Results

    Thanks for your patience, everyone. It took a lot of work to process this year’s applications. There were lots of goo...

  • 30 Days of DXing

    #30DaysOfDXing is where I am trying to receive various radio wave transmissions and listen to them using either my Ra...