Keshan Sodimana

I am : another great mind ruined by the typical education... loves: Artificial intelligence and mathematics; believes : imagination is the power;

[Ayaan 🐧 @twtayaan]

i finally understand why it’s called linux porn 😭

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Excited to launch Gemma 4: the best open models in the world for their respective sizes. Available in 4 sizes that can be fine-tuned for your specific task: 31B dense for great raw performance, 26B MoE for low latency, and effective 2B & 4B for edge device use - happy building!

[Keshan Sodimana @crazykesh]

So true

[Aidan McLaughlin @aidan_mclau]

every 6 weeks i realize i’ve been substantially under-ambitious with current models and feel like an idiot

[Keshan Sodimana @crazykesh]

Ideal scenario for a Sri Lanka win in this #T20WC26 : @OfficialSLC takes a heavy loss to Pakistan, Pakistan goes on to qualify for the final, ideally against India, allowing Sri Lanka to host both a semi final and the grand final. #T20WorldCup2026

[François Chollet @fchollet]

The secret to life satisfaction is agency maxxing

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Just announced new versions of Gemma 3 – the most capable model to run just one H100 GPU – can now run on just one *desktop* GPU!

Our Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) method drastically brings down memory use while maintaining high quality. Excited to make Gemma 3 even more accessible for more developers.

[Kaggle @kaggle]

Did you know that over 140,000 participants tuned in for the Kaggle GenAI Intensive with @Google last year? The course is now back, taking place on Mar 31-Apr 4, it offers Google ML expert-led theory sessions, hands-on labs, vibrant community, a capstone challenge w/swag, and remains to be no-cost to all!

More info and registration: https://t.co/YW02YAOJzu

[Keshan Sodimana @crazykesh]

@Eliasfiz Sinhala. We have a small set of data that were collected pre transformer era. https://t.co/T08ct6BOpa and an ASR dataset https://t.co/PgFIxe3vK9

[Mistral AI @MistralAI]

Introducing Mistral Small 3.1.
Multimodal, Apache 2.0, outperforms Gemma 3 and GPT 4o-mini.
https://t.co/BHLAAaKZ9w

[Google AI Developers @googleaidevs]

Gemma 3 is a collection of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models built from the same research and technology that powers our Gemini 2.0 models. → https://t.co/lA6jOuri5d

[Keshan Sodimana @crazykesh]

Yes

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

💯

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Collective intelligence of ants solving a puzzle
https://t.co/ba0fmo9BgQ

[Hensen Juang @basedjensen]

it has been 2 hours since openai announced o3 and it has so far failed to solve
- Riemann hypothesis
- Quantum Gravity
- FTL (Faster Than Light travel)
- P=NP
- Grand Unified Theory
- Cure for cancer
- Gpt 4.5
clearly this shows ai has hit a wall and openai is about to go bankrupt

[Graham Neubig @gneubig]

Congratulations to OpenAI on the release of o3. The results are impressive and it's important that this technology remains accessible to more than a few powerful companies. With hard work and determination I expect the open source community can catch up in 3-6 months. Let's do it

[Keshan Sodimana @crazykesh]

@akila87 @anuradisanayake 😂😂😂😂

[Kara 🦇 🔊 @0xkarasy]

Did you know there was a 42-day bus service from Dover, England to Colombo, Ceylon?

The total distance was 22000km and the ticket price was £78 (~£2500 adjusted for inflation).

Established in 1958 by Penn Overland Tours.

[Rajeev Menon 🇱🇰 @rajeevmenonsl]

#Japan has #cherryblossom and #Srilanka has #robarosia !
Yes this is a roadside in Sri Lanka...😍. Around #Madampe area to be specific on the #Colombo -#Puttalam road.
#lka #beauty #roadside
📹 credits : .@facebook

[Keshan Sodimana @crazykesh]

කේරලය දෙස බලන්න..
https://t.co/fiWeM1fwvp

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

That's because this dude doesn't know what education is.

He speaks of growing wheat, herding sheep, riding a horse, and so on, but in the era of these skills, this was the kind of education given to slaves.

Only a slave, a person who was owned as property, and used as a machine for a task, could be expected to do one task for his whole life.

A gentleman, or even a freeman of the lower classes, was not a machine for labor, but a person who could be expected to act in his own interests, and thus would need to do many different things throughout his life, depending on what served his goals at the time.

And he would need to be able to independently learn these tasks, rather than needing to be taught them in childhood.

Therefore if a boy was to formally educated, that might include some of gentleman's skills (riding, fighting with a sword, the management of finances), but his education was centered around what education really meant:

A fundamental grounding in how to live and thrive as an independent and free-willed person.

Thus, he was taught the seven liberal arts of classical antiquity:

- Arithmetic
- Geometry
- Music
- Astronomy
- Grammar
- Logic
- Rhetoric

These were not trade skills in the sense that they did not enable the performance of any particular trade or task, but that wasn't the point.

The point was that they taught the young gentleman how to think and learn.

By contrast, modern government schools were founded to train clerks and factory workers at public expense... a servant class with the specific skills necessary to be useful workers, but not the general education to be independent or question their betters?

Have you noticed which two of these arts are utterly absent from a modern government-school "education"?

That's right, logic and rhetoric. Logic is how to arrive at true conclusions from known facts. Rhetoric is how to persuade.

A servant educated in logic might notice that the things he is being told are false. A servant educated in rhetoric might notice the techniques that are being used to persuade him to act in the rulers' interests instead of his own.

If you conceive of your children's education as training in career skills, whether that be growing rice or programming a computer, you are preparing them to be slaves, not free men.

If you properly prepare them to be free men, what skills will be lucrative or useful twenty years from now is irrelevant, because they will be prepared to learn them.

In my opinion, the seven liberal arts of the modern world are:

- Logic: how to derive truth from known facts
- Statistics: how to understand the implications of data
- Rhetoric: how to persuade, and spot persuasion tactics
- Research: how to gather information on an unknown subject
- (Practical) Psychology: how to discern and understand the true motives of others
- Investment: how to manage and grow existing assets
- Agency: how to make decisions about what course to pursue, and proactively take action to pursue it.

Notice that you didn't learn any of these things in school, even if you went to a so-called "liberal arts" college. Instead, they taught you things about mitochondria and calculus and symbolism in Jon Steinbeck novels where a boy has a dog, and the dog dies.

That's because liberal arts, whether you define them as I have, or slightly differently, are the arts of the master, the arts that make one a master, and therefore not be taught in a school for slaves.

Worry less about which "career skills" AI will take over, and more about whether you are training to be, and training your kids to be, high-agency, perceptive, self-motivated people who can navigate an unknowable future with an adaptable mind.