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Meta LLaMA Explained: The AI That Thinks Like an Open Research Lab
Jan 19, 2026

Meta LLaMA Explained: The AI That Thinks Like an Open Research Lab

Part 4 of the Series : Explainer for a 10th grader, Writing for a school. Continue reading on Medium »

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Kerala’s “100% Literacy” Claim: A Statistic That Became a Myth
Jan 21, 2026

Kerala’s “100% Literacy” Claim: A Statistic That Became a Myth

Kerala is a Southern State of India. Its Geographically beautiful state with Rich language and Serene beaches. Kerala is often described as India’s “100% literate” state, a claim repeated with pride by politicians, echoed by sympathetic commentators, and widely accepted as an unq...

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Between Conviction and Care: How I Learned to Think About a Home
Jan 30, 2026

Between Conviction and Care: How I Learned to Think About a Home

I did not grow up thinking about architecture in any serious way. Houses were simply places you lived in — functional backdrops to daily… Continue reading on Medium »

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The Wink That Arrived Midway Through a Global CTO Interview
Feb 7, 2026

The Wink That Arrived Midway Through a Global CTO Interview

Interviews at senior levels have a very different texture. By the time you are interviewing for a Global CTO role, the conversation is no… Continue reading on Medium »

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When Opportunities Come Looking for You
Feb 11, 2026

When Opportunities Come Looking for You

In every career, there are two kinds of opportunities. The first are the ones we pursue deliberately. We prepare for them, apply for them, pitch ourselves into them, sometimes even build them from scratch. These feel earned because we move toward them consciously. The second kind...

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AI & Machine Learning
Feb 11, 2026

Mistral Explained: The AI That Thinks Fast, Lean, and Close to the Metal

Part of Series .. Continue reading on Medium »

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OpenClaw, Mac Minis, and the Rise of Domestic Agent Infrastructure
Feb 14, 2026

OpenClaw, Mac Minis, and the Rise of Domestic Agent Infrastructure

There is a peculiar moment in every technologist’s life when the cloud – once romantic, elastic, and infinite – begins to feel slightly excessive. You provision a Kubernetes cluster to automate a browser. You spin up GPUs to summarize PDFs. You deploy Terraform to manage the thin...

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OpenClaw and the Autonomous Home: From Voice Commands to Policy-Governed Domestic Orchestration
Feb 14, 2026

OpenClaw and the Autonomous Home: From Voice Commands to Policy-Governed Domestic Orchestration

Home automation has evolved from programmable thermostats and rule-based lighting schedules to distributed IoT fabrics stitched together… Continue reading on Medium »

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Building an Agentic Home with OpenClaw: A Practical DIY Guide
Feb 27, 2026

Building an Agentic Home with OpenClaw: A Practical DIY Guide

The previous article explored the architecture of an agentic, policy-governed home. Continue reading on Medium »

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When Do You Really Need Jaeger?
Feb 27, 2026

When Do You Really Need Jaeger?

Most systems don’t begin their lives needing Jaeger. Continue reading on Medium »

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AI & Machine Learning
Mar 15, 2025

Claude Explained — The AI That Thinks Carefully Before It Speaks

A deep dive into Anthropic's Claude — its architecture, Constitutional AI training, and what makes it fundamentally different from other large language models in how it reasons, refuses, and responds.

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Advertising & AdTech
Feb 20, 2025

Programmatic Curation Explained — Why It Matters Now

Programmatic curation is reshaping how buyers and sellers transact in the open web — shifting power from opaque supply chains to transparent, curated marketplaces. Here's why it matters and what comes next.

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AI & Machine Learning
Mar 10, 2025

Google Gemini Explained — The AI That Thinks in Big Pictures, Not Just Answers

Google's Gemini represents a new direction in AI — natively multimodal, deeply integrated into Google's ecosystem, and designed to reason across text, images, code, and audio simultaneously.

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Leadership & Management
Jan 25, 2025

The Mother Teresa Effect in Startups — When Scarcity Is Mistaken for Leadership

In many startups, leaders who operate under perpetual scarcity are celebrated as saints — but the real question is whether they're solving problems or sustaining the conditions that create them.

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AI & Machine Learning
Mar 5, 2025

Understanding OpenAI's GPT Models — The AI That Feels Like Talking to a Smart Human

From GPT-3 to GPT-4o and beyond — tracing the evolution of OpenAI's transformer models, their emergent capabilities, and the design decisions that make them feel remarkably conversational.

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AI & Machine Learning
Mar 20, 2025

Agent Central — The Missing Control Plane for Enterprise Agentic AI

As enterprises deploy dozens of AI agents across functions, the missing piece isn't another agent — it's a control plane. Agent Central proposes a unified layer for orchestration, observability, and governance.

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Society & Culture
Feb 10, 2025

The Silence Between Headlines

What happens in the spaces the news doesn't cover? A reflection on the stories that never trend, the lives that don't make headlines, and why the silence itself is worth paying attention to.

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Society & Culture
Jan 15, 2025

That Time I Went to Infosys and Almost Became a Quality Guy

A candid, personal account of arriving at Infosys as a young engineer, navigating the machinery of India's IT industry, and the pivotal moment that set a different course entirely.

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Society & Culture
Dec 20, 2024

Transmission of Astronomical Knowledge in Ancient India

How astronomical knowledge was preserved, transmitted, and advanced across millennia in ancient India — from Vedic calendrical systems to the mathematical models of Aryabhata and Bhaskara.

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AI & Machine Learning
Mar 25, 2025

Agentic AI at Enterprise Scale

Moving agentic AI from proof-of-concept to production at enterprise scale demands a fundamentally different approach — one that treats agents as managed services, not experimental scripts.

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