Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
@yudhanjaya
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Award-winning author, data scientist, journalist. Cofounder @teamwatchdog, ex-@LIRNEasia. Amateur-general maker of ephemera. He/him Rep: @StevieFinegan
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Joined November 2011
So I won the Gratiean Prize for my (unpublished) novel, the Wretched and the Damned. To celebrate, I’ve returned to where I started my fiction writing career: Mintage.
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@sanjiva @BrankoMilan Real loss is to disease prevention and global public health outcomes. Overpaid pontificators a distant second.
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Genuinely fascinating to peek at Deepseek-R1's "thought process". The inner monologue feels very much like a conversation I might have with a friend. Models are now passing the vibe check of being more than just a next-token generator.
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Pretty sure we played this guy in Street Fighter on PS2
Jon Call, built like a tank, moves like a ninja. [📹 jujimufu]
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Idea: as an experiment, we should pay Chathuranga in coconuts and watch him convert them to dollars.
"The coconut is a dollar source,” Deputy Minister Chathuranga Abeysinghe calls for careful consumption of coconuts.
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I assume that digital ID will make it significantly harder for Wimal’s wife to obtain passports with forged documents.
"The digital ID project must be deliberated a few hundred times," Wimal Weerawansa warns against Sri Lanka implementing the digital ID project claiming that there have been reports of personal data theft in India.
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RT @JamesLucasIT: Earth as you’ve never seen it before 🧵 1. Mars is so bright it reflects on the ocean as it rises. Captured by astrophoto…
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@onelanka Yes. NBRO has all the information in one place. They even have the gps coordinates of the house recorded.
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Of course, one assumes the police and journalists can ask NBRO and the local GS office - I cannot fathom that they are so incompetent as to not know how to do this.
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@sanjiva @RealAndrewLK Shipping and tariffs make it more than $500 (same way that Harley Davidson survived Honda - tax structures form a moat). I wonder if the high taxes on vehicles here provide enough margin for cheap utility vehicles.
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@samarajiva It's going to keep dropping as AI becomes cheaper at handling increasing amounts of outsourced BPM work.
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Ask yourself about the kind of person who wants the masses to have less free information, rather than more.
Defund Wikipedia until balance is restored!
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As always, Terry Pratchett’s wisdom is universal.
You wont be surprised to learn that many Terry Pratchett quotes are relevant to what’s happening today in America, here’s just one @terryandrob @rhipratchett
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Smart idea.
Unless people have had a lot of training, they tend to freeze or panic in emergencies, putting them at extra risk. A virtual reality game whose sole purpose is to drill you in different emergencies you might face (car accident, fire, flood, medical, etc.) would be pretty neat.
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