Where is your casio, Adhavan? What happened to it? Why have you not looked for it? I have not seen it in a few weeks. There is a new organisation system in my house, but it seems the casio has escaped it. But i’ve not felt like wearing a watch in the same time period.
What causes somebody to go through a period of indifference? I am currently indifferent about many things. Like the presence of my casio, I will just assume that it is in my house and move on. I’m not going to search for it. I am not going to wash my shirts, because tee shirts are the only things I am going to wear. I have not felt so indifferent in some time, I hope things get better and there is some direction soon.
It has been raining and hailing for a few days inbetween. It is a much needed relief from the sun…I was on the bike, on the highway for a bit after the bulk of the rain drops had fallen. It was cold and the evening ending made for a good feeling. I was reminded of last May, when it was raining on my drive back from Bidar, I would like to be on a long drive somewhere, it has been many months and it is time I felt like I was reaching somewhere.
I read the Slow Science Manifesto, which is constructed very well. I was directed to it by Shreyas, who suggested it as a reading that may help construct the manifesto for the PGSL.
School (scholè) means free time, as opposed to ‘busy-ness’, to business (a-scholè). Research entities with a mandate of public knowledge production should aim at becoming universal, inclusive places, where critical debate fosters social, political, cultural, economic and environmental awareness. Science, education and research are too important, maybe especially at this moment in history, to privatise them – for the problems are huge and the stakes high. Independent science, then, should not be confused with indifferent science.
We have been using Meilisearch, Sireesh and Vivek have been doing the bulk of the work trying to debug and load the OCR’d documents onto it for vector embedding search. Through it, I learnt that Sentence Transformers is apparently dead, and LLAMA.CPP is all the rage now.
I just finished reading Raghu Karnad’s Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War. Every chapter is a history that was completely new to me and told very well, in well written detail. Of the nature of the Indian participation within the frame of the Freedom Movement and how it accelerated , of the theatres of war in North Africa, in Burma, of Singapore’s liberation and Subash Chandra Bose’s participation… I was particularly impressed by the narration of place, weather, culture and habits.
The war on Iran, and the subsequent blockade has hit the stoves of Yelahanka too. Many small restaurants have closed down temporarily. There has been wall to wall coverage on digital media, as is there coverage of everything. There is commentary of all kinds to read.
I was in Kundapura for a day. The Aluru Gram Panchayat Observatory work reached a critical juncture as we held a public consultation that used the collaborative work of the PGSL
