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A fourteen-minute walk took me over an hour. Scroll inside the map below, or open it full-screen. I was staying at The Curzon Court, Brigade Road. I needed to be at Microsoft Luxor North Tower for a 2 pm workshop. ...

Karthik Sashidhar shared his AI-generated Bangalore weather blog, which is generated by Hermes listening on Telegram. “The data analysis and stuff is still fairly YOLO but … skill based on my 10 years of experience,” as he put it. That includes critique too. Arjun asked it: Does it rain at specific hours in the day during monsoons? In a few minutes, Pre-monsoon rain is an evening creature emerged. In short, it rains in the evenings: 5 - 6 pm is the peak. ...

A collection of little AI experiments that unlock ideas. VOICE Speak to ChatGPT in a language other than English VISION Upload your palm’s photo and ask for a palmistry reading Upload a screenshot of a contacts list and ask for a Google Contacts CSV import MUSIC On Gemini select “Create music” (Lyria). Then prompt: “Create a vote of thanks for the following people. [People]” “Create a 30s loopable introduction jingle for [Speaker] who’s speaking about [Topic]” IMAGE On Gemini select “Create image” (Nano Banana Pro) and prompt: “Draw this as a visually rich, intricately detailed, colorful, and funny, sketchnote. [Content]” AUTOMATIION On Google Workspace Studio, prompt: “Add an URGENT label to emails that need immediate action by me.” On Claude Code Desktop, prompt: “Send a test email to myself.” ANALYSIS On ChatGPT, prompt: “Research and compare the AI policies across universities as a table.” RESEARCH On Claude Code / Codex, prompt: “Write a data story analyzing movie lengths over time.” It will search, download, write code, analyze, and visualize.

Based on several (i.e. two) recommendations, I subscribed to MiniMax. At $10/month, you get 1,500 requests every 5 hours and 15,000 every week. That’s a LOT! Using the same prompt I had Claude Code generate two data stories: The first paragraph, by Claude Sonnet 4.6 The first paragraph, by MiniMax M2.7 Here’s my comparison of the two. It’s partly based on Claude Opus 4.6’s comparison but I felt the same way. ...

I added a narrative story to my LLM Pricing chart. That makes it easier for me and others to tell the story of AI’s evolution in the last three years. Video It was vibe-coded over two iterations. In the first version, I prompted it to: Add a scrollytelling narrative. So, when users first visit the page, they see roughly the same thing as now (but prettier). As they scroll down, the page should smoothly move to the earliest month, and then animate month by month on scroll, and explaining the key events and insights in terms of model quality and pricing. Use the data story skill to do this effectively, narrating like Malcolm Gladwell, with the visual style of The New York Times, using the education progression as a framework for measure of intelligence (read prompts.md for context). Store the narrative text in a separate JSON file and read from it. This should control the entire narrative, including what month to jump to next, what models to highlight, what insights to share, and so on. ...

I tried 2 experiments. Can I code a visual data story only using LLMs? Does this make me faster? How much? Has GitHub Copilot caught up with Cursor? How far behind is it? Can I recommend it? So I built a visual story for Lech Mazur’s elimination game benchmark (it’s like LLMs playing Survivor) using only the free GitHub Copilot as the AI code editor. SUMMARY: using LLMs and AI code editors make me a bit faster. It took me 7 hours instead of 10-12. But more importantly: ...

Jolie No. 1 There are more Bollywood actors in Hollywood. Some are even turning down Hollywood roles. So we wondered: How easily can a Bollywood actor connect to a Hollywood actor? As part of the Oct 2019 Gramener data story hackathon, Anand, Kishore, and Niyas created a Jolie No 1 — a data video where Govinda announces (in our imagination) that he will act with Angelina Jolie in Jolie No 1, but declines to comment on who introduced them. ...