thinking flesh & thinking machines
The Mula-Bhashya Problem: Teaching AI About Textual Authority
Every knowledge tradition has a hierarchy of texts. How to teach AI to distinguish between primary and secondary texts.
When AI Sounds Dharmic But Doesn't Think Dharmic
Can Small Language Models Exhibit Dharmic Coherence
Why Sanskrit Breaks Your Tokenizer (And What That Tells Us About Multilingual AI)
How to work with languages that have an inner structure.
SanskritKatha: 43 Reviewers and Counting
Updates on the SanskritKatha project. 43 reviewers signed up. 45 reviews done.
Claw Claw Clawdius — Same Model, Different Harness, Different Personality
The harness - the UI, the tools available, the interaction pattern - shapes the AI's effectiveness.
tweet-scheduler-mcp: Why I Built My Own Tweet Scheduler
Tweet scheduler MCP/CLI, integrates with ClaudeCode/Cursor and more. Don't waste money on Buffer-like tools.
Generating 50,000 Sanskrit Stories with AI: Building SanskritKatha in Public
Generating original Sanskrit narratives in Devanagari, with age-appropriate vocabulary, coherent plots & ontology
Sanskrit Aid v0.2 - Sandhi Splitting, Pronunciation, and Vidyut-Powered Declensions
Three capabilities - Declension tables powered by Vidyut, two-tier sandhi/compound splitting, and audio pronunciation
I Let an AI Run 14 Experiments on My Sri Aurobindo Language Model — Here's What It Found
Counterintuitive ideas explored by Autoresearch method on my Sri Aurobindo Small Language Model
First User Ran a Real Campaign with the Outbound Playbook MCP — Here's What Happened
Outbound Playbook MCP proves effective in real-world usage
As Thee
O shape me in Thy likeness,Mirror in mind and heart Thy manners,Seed within that will unflinchingLik
My Ember
Pale is the dawn, pale the trudging hours,Sapless like a mindless ritual’s empty gestures,All motion
Self of Dream
Who knocks upon the dream doorWith frantic raps unceasing, shouting,‘Heed, heed for the day is nearF
This Day
This day my wondrous sun withdrewBehind this clay-wrought grosser sheath,A world of pliant matter he
The Boon
What is mine here to freely giveFor all was issued by a will unknown,Breath and body and senses five
Petulant Villain
Treacherous are thy waters O time,Littered with murderous eddies of desireAnd storms of passion ruth
A Rumination
“Ah, the misty gaze flees by a severe sunAnd mine scenes stand stripped of fancies;Crimson lust of y
Thy Doorstep
Does it count the thoughts that rise and passAs offering to Thee all enduring and immutable,Trudging
Front Unguarded
The woes of self come clustered or aloneLike a troop or a loner by honour bound,To hold them in abey
Immortal Eyes
Why dost Thou employ beauty’s rhetoricOn my feeble person so easily swayed,Smiling ever so slyly fro