Hello!
I came on a work trip to Goa. I’m staying in a cute Village Aldona. Did some good GIS work and learnt new things in GIS, Air pollution. Also went on evening walks with Dr Sarath, saw the village and ate great food. Village life here is very different from the villages I’ve known. Loving it.



I went to the beach and played frisbee today. Last time I played frisbee was when seniors at NITK organized an frisbee icebreaking session. 10 years ago :)
I explored BlueSky app this week. It is an alternative to Twitter - started as a research project at Twitter under Jack Dorsey. The major difference is that BlueSky has no one algorithm to select your feed. Users can create their own algorithms and other users will choose what they like. For example, zoologist Dani Rabaiotti created the Science Feed on Bluesky. Her algorithm is strict (involves manual curation of contributors by a bunch of other scientists). Her algorithm is to create science feed free from misinformation. Another feed called SkySky is less strict. It picks up all posts that has the words “Air Quality.”
This way, it is a marketplace of algorithms and we can choose what we like. We can also remove the default “Discover” feed that is created by the Bluesky itself.
I’m enjoying it for now with relevant content. If it goes well, I will try to create a feed as well.
This is my Bluesky profile: thechaoticneuron
I completed Taapi Dharmarao’s ఇనుప కచ్చడాలు ~ Iron locks. It is another dense but small booklet on the history of a very interesting device that mankind developed to control their women’s sexual life. In short, Taapi Dharmarao gave evidence of how men across the world literally locked vaginas of their wives with iron locks (of various designs). These locks metamorphosized into various ornaments today. However, Taapi Dharmarao warned that thought that led to its invention remains and it would give rise to new kind of locks. Some of my friends suggested sci-fi ideas - fingerprint locks, face scanning locks, even AI based locks. A Black mirror episode can be written based on this.
Wrote a couple of Stats blogs this week