2026 1

My food preferences

I use ChatGPT to recommend which restaurant I should eat at and what food I should eat. So often that I decided to share a profile of my eating preferences. But rather than think about it and type it myself, I asked it to Efficiently interview me to identify my food preferences. Document it for AI agents to help me pick restaurants. Plan like an expert. ...

2025 2

I’m planning four 30-min 1-on-1 slots to discuss LLM use-cases. Ask me anything on LLMs. I’ll share what I know. If interested, please fill this in: https://forms.gle/5zwWNuRmZDxTh325A WHEN: 30 Jun / 1 July, IST. I’ll revert by 26 Jun to schedule time. WHY: I want to learn new uses for LLMs and share what I know. WHO: I’ll contact you based on what you’d like to discuss. WHERE: Google Meet. I’ll share an invite when mutually convenient. ...

Top 8 ways I use ChatGPT in 2025

I extracted the titles of the ~1,600 conversations I had with ChatGPT in 2025 so far and classified it against the list of How People Are Really Using Gen AI in 2025. Here are the top 8 things I use it for, along with representative chat titles. (The % match in brackets tells you how similar the chat title is to the use case.) Improving code (clearly, I code a lot) Troubleshooting (usually code) Corporate LLM/Copilot (this is mostly LLM research I do) Generating code (more code) Generating ideas (yeah, I’ve stopped thinking) Simple explainers (slightly surprising how often I ask for simple explanations) Generating relevant images. (Surprising, but I think I generated a lot of images for blog/LinkedIn posts) Specific search (actually, this is mis-classified. This is where I’m searching for search engines!) My classification has errors. For example, “Reduce Code Size” was classified against “Generating code” but should have been “Improving code”. But it’s not too far off. ...

2023 1

Ashwini Mathur and I are conducting a webinar on the impact of LLMs in Pharma. It’s online at 10 am Eastern on Mon Sep 11. Simon Willison described LLMs as alien technology we’re still discovering. I couldn’t agree more - and it helps to see it from different perspectives. So, we’re pairing the tech research at Gramener with the domain research Ashwini Mathur is doing at Novartis to explore the good, the bad, and the surprising uses of generative AI. ...

2021 1

Comicgen now has a very versatile character – Aavatar. Pick your gender. Hairstyle. Emotion. Attire. Pose. Colors. Create your own character. (It’s open-source.) https://gramener.com/comicgen/v1/ The variations are staggering. It throws up surprising ones too, like crossdressers or bald women in sarees 🙂 What I’m struggling with is: Who needs this? What could they do with it? I’m not sure. If you have ideas or know someone who might, please let me know 🙏 ...

2006 1

A ringtone adults cannot hear

Teenagers use it in classes, to avoid detection by teachers. Shopkeepers use the same technology to drive away rowdy teenagers, by creating a loud sound that doesn’t affect adults. This works because adults gradually lose the ability to hear high-pitched sounds. (via NY Times) Comments Livy 12 Nov 2006 5:33 pm: I can here the sounds up to about 18KHz.

2005 1

Low Shutter Speeds without Tripod

Taking pictures at low shutter speeds without a tripod. Comments Anonymous Hero 5 Jul 2005 9:56 am: About why Google History is important: I had searched for something from home laptop and I was at office and needed the same info. Went into Google history and found the same thing… So the search history and the links I clicked on were available from any computer attached to the Net. Found it pretty useful… Ram 5 Jul 2005 4:51 pm: Pls update the placement section with new useful links… S Anand 5 Jul 2005 6:36 pm: Ah… that’s a good use. I was also wondering if we could do some profiling of the kinds of sites we visit – perhaps by checking what their tags are on technorati or del.icio.us sathish 22 Jul 2005 11:14 am: probably based on our search history, there could some recommendations to given