February 14, 2026

My last two presentations used browser tabs as slides. For my talk last week titled Your Chotu Is Smarter Than You Think, I planned to show a series of examples. I loaded them all in a browser window as tabs like this: How I use AI to navigate toilets How I use AI for food recommendation How I use AI for book suggestions What else I can use AI for … Once loaded, I can press Ctrl+PgDn to move to the next - just like I’d press the right arrow key in a slide deck. I can also use the mouse to click on the tab if I want to jump around. ...

Here’s my talk proposal for VizChitra 2026: Description There’s stuff I know AI can do. Create data visualizations. I just tell it to convert a dataset into a treemap, and it does. Hallucinate. That’s a fancy word for “make stuff up”. I prefer calling it “creativity”. Run forever. As long as I have token budget and can summarize the context, it can go on. What if we combine these? What if we asked it to do research? If infinite monkeys will almost surely produce Shakespeare, how long will it take for the greatest AI to discover a truly novel data visualization that is useful? ...

This week, Namit and I met a Straive team that operates from a client office. One team member asked: I believe that we are doing wonders out here, but we are closed from what is happening in the rest our organization. I want team members to interact with others to see what interesting things they have delivered and where we can implement that solution. Could we have sessions, maybe a monthly newsletter, showing what innovations we’re working on? This would really keep us engaged with the tech that is going outside of the work that we do. ...