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.
English wasn’t my first/primary language. I attended a Kannada-medium school during my primary school years and switched to an English-medium school in high school. I caught up with it as I grew up speaking it with friends and then colleagues, as English is the primary language at work 1. Now that we are...
Table of Contents1 Open Weight Models1.1 nomic-embed-text-v2-moe1.2 paraphrase-multilingual1.3 bge-m31.4 snowflake-arctic-embed22 OpenAI Model2.1 text-embedding-3-large Embedding models transform words, sentences, documents, or digital items into vectors of numbers (usually floats) so that machines can understand and compare them semantically1. A good embedding model has enough information to capture the meaning and relationships in dense vector...
So, I’m going to attempt to write a blog post, actually by dictating it using IdeaShell. It’s my dream to write a whole blog post using voice. It’s not done using any Text-generating LLMs, but this is done using Speech to Text (STT). Just to try it out. I’m doing this while I’m taking a stroll at Madras, an evening stroll. It’s a good way to test it because I just wanted to test it in different environments. How does it perform?
I have been searching for models that perform translations between Kannada and English and vice versa. I learned about the Sarvam Translate model, which seemed very promising. I tried it on their site before downloading the model directly to run locally. Model weights are available under GPL. Sarvam-Translate is an advanced translation model...
I listen to Music from my homelab server using Navindrome and several client apps. It works both when I am online and offline. But one of the things that you miss when you listen to local Music is discoverability. It’s not easy to find new, interesting Music unless you’re on one of those...
If you are interested in tracking weather alerts like I am, you should know about the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP). CAP is a standard XML formatted message that shares disaster/emergency alerts between creators, distributors, and receivers. For example, extreme rain alerts from IMD/Mausam (creator) to phones (receivers) through telecom service providers (distributors). It...
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Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) "Thej" is an Independent Technologist, Hacker, Maker, Traveler, Blogger, InfoActivist, Open data and Open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India. He loves experimenting with all things life and hence some times he is called hacker and other times duct tape. You can read more about him here. Email [ i @ thejeshgn dot com]. PGP/GPG Keys are here.
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