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In 1994, I learnt Perl. It was fantastic. I used it to: 1995: Build CCChat - the unofficial IITM email system and software repository 1999: Build my entire blog from scratch 2000: Author my 2nd year thesis on the Behavioural Aspects of Financial Analysts by analyzing 600MB of IBES data 2002: Analyze where to place the central processing hubs for a bank 2004: Analyze the interest durations of public sector banks 2005: Creating music quizzes 2006: Create my own music search engine (which earned me about $100 a month in Google Ad revenue for a while) 2006: Automated resume filtering 2007: Create custom search engines 2008: Build application launchers In 2006, I was convinced I should stick to Perl over Python. ...

Andrej Karpathy mentioned the term LLM psychologist first in Feb 2023. I’ve been thinking about this for a while, now. I’ve always been fascinated by psychologists in fiction. I grew up with Hari Seldon in Foundation, wanting to be a psycho-historian. (I spent several teenage years building my mind-reading abilities.) I wanted to be Susan Calvin, the only robopsychologist. ...

When Sunil Kardam said Gramener is the one place he got to apply all his skills - management, engineering, people skills and analytics - it reminded me how cross disciplinary Gramener is. There’s something to be said for generalists in the era of deep focus. LinkedIn