Congratulations Yevan David #yevandavid for getting into #formula3 & becoming first Sri Lankan to race in F3. Super proud of you! Let’s GO #srilanka #yevan #formula3

Proud moment: I set out to write something that I could read alongside some of my favourites, like the Culture and Known Space and the works of Stanislaw Lem. Strange dreams; strange places; strange people. I succeeded. But best of all, I created something I enjoy working on.

Prompting as prayer is an interesting angle. Also mildly disturbing to think of us, humans, unconsciously defaulting to the same thought patterns with LLMs as with gods

When a Beach Became a Battleground for Filmmaking On 23rd December 2023, We had an unexpected run-in with the “private beach” myth while working as the First Assistant Director on Director Asoka Handagama’s film Rani. We had scouted a stunning stretch of sand near the Mount

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake: as a citizen of Sri Lanka, I would like to request the use of all the communism at our disposal to send these people straight to the gulag. If not, please explain why we, a cash-strapped country, are funding this nonsense.

That's a wrap! The Inhuman War manuscript is done. With this, the Commonwealth trilogy is complete! It'll take a bit of time before it shows up in bookstores, but it's now over to the good folks HarperCollins.

Today's example of 'yes, these people have the same voting power as you do': Idiots using AI to make their racist arguments for them.

More proof that the CEB is a cartel of cushy jobs. I'm not opposed to government servants being well-paid - they should be. But we should do it without these byzantine loopholes; this is damn near legalized bribery at taxpayer expense.

Got my Starlink today. Fluctuates a bit, but significantly better than the crappy 500Kbps-8Mbps Dialog gave me. The app is among of the most elegant software I've used on a phone. 10/10, design and utility.

📢 UPDATE on 🇱🇰 #SriLanka – ⚖️ #Legal Documents @HuggingFace datasets for 2400+ Legal Acts, since 1948. Metadata - huggingface.co/datasets/nuuuw… Text Chunks - huggingface.co/datasets/nuuuw… ⚠️ ~⅔ of the Acts involed OCR, and so the data quality is not great. Clean-up in progress.

Wild. Brings to mind Borges (the library, the garden of forking paths) and that Narnia story that opens with a painting - the voyage of the Dawn Treader I expect the caveats to be the same as with any proc-gen, though. Not all endless permutation is endlessly interesting

Interesting how politicians just seem to go to hospital rather than to prison. Defeats the purpose, noh?

Every Sri Lankan parent needs to be made to watch this video the moment they have a baby.

isn’t it a little weird that habits are untraceable by default in modern software? if you walk the same route through grass in the wilderness, over time it becomes a path. but software doesn’t do that - and maybe that’s a loss for the user. sure, apps have memory: a search bar

Saw this recently (source unclear). Something to think about.

Every time I get back into a game I have to leave for a few days. sigh.