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Sanjiva Weerawarana
@sanjiva
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Making the world a better place with software
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Joined July 2008
RT @Factschaser: American car reviewer gets why BYD is crushing Tesla: This Denza Z9 can slide park, has two fridges, multiple screens, mas…
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For the next time when someone says @Reuters is factual reporting:
Reuters was paid millions of dollars by the US government for “large scale social deception”. That is literally what it says on the purchase order! They’re a total scam. Just wow.
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RT @Kanthan2030: 💥DOGE has frozen funding for NED, the evil cousin of USAID. The National Endowment for Democracy is a CIA front for organ…
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RT @BrianRoemmele: Fourier transform. Visualized. This is the secret to how human memory is encoded.
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Hey @DOGE ref you manually consolidating a govt org chart. We at Lanka Data Foundation have been working on our own version of DoGE and a govt org chart is a key map to organize govt data. The current (older) version is built using StanfordNLP and other stuff to read govt official pubs (called gazettes here in Sri Lanka) and auto generating the graph. The key thing is these get published every few weeks as the org gets tweaked. So a key thing is that we have a time series of the org chart and have a view that lets you navigate that. Things come and go way more often here than in the US as govt policies change faster than the wind direction does. You can see the current version here: (I've attached a few images FYI). This is on a free host yet .. don't break it. The new version we're working on uses OpenAI APIs to scan gazette images to extract the data from the gazette. (We found that images work better than the PDF because of the 2D structure of the information.) The v2 is working for full org restructure gazettes (which typically comes after each election) and processing the incremental ones is in progress. We're open source and the goal is to build software to DoGEify the world, starting with Sri Lanka. Happy to share if you want to use anything we have. LDF is still "stealth" but its real ;-). @vibhathaA @lanka_data
DOGE website is live! Initial site: 1. X feed posts 2. Consolidated government org chart - enormous manual effort consolidating 16,000+ offices 3. Summary of the massive regulatory state, including the Unconstitutionality Index (ratio of rules written by unelected bureaucrats to laws passed by Congress) Coming soon (targeting Valentines Day): 1. Description/amount of each cost reduction (w/ receipts where applicable) 2. Overall savings scorecard We will constantly be working to maximize the site’s utility and transparency. Please let us know what else you want to see!
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RT @LynAldenContact: When you go to developing countries and see how many Chinese cars are on the road, it's shocking. They're not in the U…
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UGH this is the kind of BS conversation that depresses me with our digital strategy every single time .. saying crap like "we will lead the world in XXX". When I was hired into IBM Research (in 1997), my manager's manager was an utterly amazing guy named Stephen Boies. Steven had a line: Make it work, make it better, make it great. Another way of putting it: Crawl, walk, run. For digital stuff, before we can fly (let alone run, which is what "leading the world" means), we need the core foundations in place. @anuradisanayake You got a very strong mandate for *5 years*. Take the time to build this right and don't fall into the trap of trying to produce results fast and making ridiculous PR statements that make no sense. And whoever advised you that *Oracle* is going to "help" is wrong- if they put up a data center in Port City its because they find it economically valuable, not because they want to pave the way for XXX. The same is true for any bigtech (or smalltech) company. Like every other type of development, we need to do this *ourselves* and in our own way. India did it (and is doing it) themselves and in their own way. Trying to reach flight when you can't crawl is not a strategy that will produce any outcome that's different from the fake shit we've been dealing with for the last 20 yearsi
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RT @mattpheus: 1/ Buckle up. There’s a massive move happening in the gold market that almost nobody’s talking about. Huge physical deliveri…
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RT @IsabellaMDeLuca: I just got fired from my job at USAID. I was the lead analyst for gay squirrels in eastern Zimbabwe. I have no way…
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RT @libsoftiktok: HAHAHA CNN is forced to refer to Elon Musk as Hairy Balls after he changed his name on X. 😂
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RT @Rainmaker1973: The Persian wind tower (بادگیر) or how a 700-year-old air conditioner could cool an environment up to 12°C with no elect…
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RT @MikeBenzCyber: 🚨 BOMBSHELL 🚨 John Bolton, who was in charge of USAID’s policy and budget, reveals on Piers Morgan this week his “farewe…
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