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Digital Twin (my playground)
I am embarking on a side project that involves memory and multimodal understanding for an assistant so I wanted to start exploring the technologies involved. My “Digital Twin” is one of my playgrounds for learning and practicing with relevant technologies such as Python, LLMs, Langchain, Ollama, etc. I also started using Swift but that’s a…
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“This is exactly what LLMs are made for”
I was in Toronto, Canada. I’m on the flight back home now. The trip was very productive. A few of us went there to meet part of our team and discuss our plans for the coming months. First time in Toronto. Beautiful city. Next time I’ll make a point of staying longer. Stefan Scherer (a…
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“How we fell out of love with voice assistants”
The BBC article “How we fell out of love with voice assistants” by Katherine Latham is no surprise to me. It reminds me of numerous conversations during my Cortana and Alexa days about the importance of user value and trust. We tracked and tried to optimize many metrics. When we started paying more attention and…
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Ontology-based reasoning with ChatGPT’s help
Like so many others out there, I played a bit with ChatGPT. I noticed examples of create a new language and a new programming language. I decided to test ChatGPT’s ability to reason over an ontology that we create on the fly. I have worked on language/conversational systems for so many years. I knew this…
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Break from work
Hi all… It’s been a while since I posted on this blog. It’s been an interesting summer for me. I resigned from Amazon to take a break from work. I’ve been traveling, reading for fun, studying math and machine learning, and re-charging. I have been working on natural language/conversational systems for about 11 years now. It…
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Mary elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineers
So proud of Mary. She was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineers. Satya and Elon, who also got elected as members at the same time, are lucky to be in the same list as Mary 🙂
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Xbox Series X – First game
Installed the new Xbox Series X. 4K resolution. Surround sound. New Elite 2 controller. All sorts of fancy tech. What’s the first game I play? Ghosts’n Goblins, released in 1985, hosted in an Xbox 360 virtual machine in my new Xbox console This is the game I was playing for hours when my dad…
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Gasoline consumption, 9 years later
About 9 years ago, I looked at my gasoline consumption data and noticed the beginning of a downward trend. I decided to have another look again. I was pleased that the trend continued. For context, I have kept a detailed record of all my expenses since Sep 2005. This allows me to analyze my spending…
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“Technology is not neutral”
Interesting article by Tristan Harris. It talks about how technology platforms can take stance in global epidemic (or other similar) situations instead of trying to be neutral.
