Status
Welcome to my Status page. Here, I share quick updates, casual thoughts, and random moments from my day. It's my personal little corner away from social media noise.
Why is Eniwa city in Hokkaido is the favourite city of Journey band members?
Cause Eniwa you want it, that’s the way you need it
Autumn in Central Park




Will be in Miami November 10-16 for EMNLP 2024 and then in New York November 17-22. Anybody I know also attending the conference? Would love to connect over coffee or drinks if you're around!
ever heard a combination of songs that make way more sense together
try listening to Will You Love Me Tomorrow by The Shirelles and I Don’t Love You by My Chemical Romance back to back
My team members and I had an interview recently with the mercan team about what we are doing in the autoreply project
https://careers.mercari.com/mercan/articles/44184/
Hire smart people and waste two hours of their day on commute
just read the wiki page of Sam Cooke and god, you should never try to get to know your favourite artists
Giving my talk on Sep 27th, 1:50pm. Come watch!
https://x.com/pyconjapan/status/1829481204426715448
built a little something over the last couple of weekends
check it out if you're into running: https://tokyorunclubs.com/
btw used tailwind for the first time and it's quite fun
Went to the Shinagawa immigration office today. It was my first time there and I had heard that there are long queue so I was worried. But it was quite quick. I was in-and-out in 15 minutes!
Recently discovered Apple Music Classical and it has been a delightful experience. It's so well designed! I find Spotify to be horrendous for classical music. The only downside is that now I gotta pay for Apple Music subscription as well.
I gotta get a job at google. I got locked out of one of my gmail account because I don't have access to the recovery phone number even though I know the password and using the same machine to login. There is no other way to recover the account!
til-this-text-formatting-style-is-called-kebab-cased
OpenDrama
1. Everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can’t help it. We are all migrants through time.
Finished reading the book Exit West by Mohsin Hamid over the weekend and wanted to share some quotes that completely captivated me:
whoever integrates (google) calendar with dating apps in Japan is gonna make a bank
I used GPT to translate from English to Hindi for the first time today and it did an amazing job. Even for the romanized version of named entities in Hindi, it worked flawlessly!
Multi-page Google Form are the worst UI for surveys IMO
What kind of psychopath would just start answering without taking a look at all the questions first!
Unless it's a required form/survey, the probability that I'll answer it immediately goes to 0 if it's multi-page
you need therapy not fujifilm x100vi
It's easy to find articles about LLMs, how they work, and their potential applications
But I rarely found ones about making something production-ready with LLMs that solve a specific business problem
I have collected such articles in this GitHub repo
https://github.com/primaprashant/llms-in-production