May 2025

Me: What is the capital of France? Qwen3-30b-a3b: <think> Okay, so I need to figure out what the capital of France is. Let me start by recalling what I know about countries and their capitals. France is a country in Europe, right? I think it’s known for things like the Eiffel Tower, Paris, and maybe some famous foods like croissants or wine. Wait, but the question is specifically asking for the capital. The capital of a country is usually the city where the government is based. So, for example, the capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. So applying that logic to France, I need to think about which city is the seat of the French government. ...

My Tools in Data Science course is now open for anyone to audit. It’s part of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras BS in Data Science online program. Here are some of the topics it covers in ~10 weeks: Development Tools: uv, git, bash, llm, sqlite, spreadsheets, AI code editors Deployment Tools: Colab, Codespaces, Docker, Vercel, ngrok, FastAPI, Ollama LLMs: prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, topic modeling, multi-modal, real-time, evals, self-hosting Data Sourcing: Scraping websites and PDF with spreadsheets, Python, JavaScript and LLMs Data Preparation: Transforming data, images and audio with spreadsheets, bash, OpenRefine, Python, and LLMs Data Analysis: Statistical, geospatial, and network analysis with spreadsheets, Python, SQL, and LLMs Data Visualization: Data visualization and storytelling with spreadsheets, slides, notebooks, code, and LLMs ...