Thoughts

TIL a little more about Noether's theorem

December 9, 2025

Tectonic Plates: TIL a couple of amazing things.

September 14, 2025

A Drug Story in Jaffna

April 1, 2024

A Drug Story - Happened to a family friend in Jaffna few days ago. Source: mom

How GPT works: 15-minute intuition

February 21, 2024

Karpathy was an OpenAI co-founder and the Tesla autopilot vision team lead. Between Tesla and OpenAI, he released this gem of a guide.

Buddha was shot dead - An impactful poem

June 1, 2022

I read this as a kid in Grade 6 or so, and its impact has stuck with me. The following is a short explanation for anyone who might get tr...

#GoHomeRajapaksas - An Unprecedented Revolution

April 11, 2022

How does the Webb Telescope orbit nothing (L2)?

February 3, 2022

Sri Lanka & Lazarus Heist

September 8, 2021

In 2016, Lazarus Group, a North Korean cybercrime group robbed 1 billion from the account of Bangladesh’s Central Bank in the Federal Ban...

Afghanistan: A Sad Story

August 7, 2021

How safe are our compilers?

August 5, 2021

The Snowflake Generation: A Defense

June 27, 2021

Tamil 101: For Non-Tamils

June 9, 2021

A Jaffna Marriage Story, Jam-Fruit-Tree-style

April 27, 2021

Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics

January 2, 2021

Linear Algebra in our Education: A Rant

November 3, 2020

Grade 8: Here is a matrix, just a few numbers in a box. You can add, subtract boxes. And you can multiply two boxes in this very complica...

Meta-hypocrisy: War Crimes, Sunil Ratnayaka and George Floyd

June 4, 2020

TLDR: We need to compare apples to apples, Sri Lankan people to US people and SL govt to US govt. I have a unique (not really) stance on ...

Myth of the Chocolate Skin

April 18, 2020

Fun fact, foreigners: Europeans and Chinese have a difficult time wrapping their heads around the concept of our skin colours. They assum...

Story of the "Joy Plant" and Heroin

April 17, 2020

“Take the best orgasm you ever had, multiply it by a thousand and you’re still nowhere near it.”

Solar Eclipse FAQ & Fun Facts

December 26, 2019

Why is it harmful to look at it with naked eyes?

To see in Rajarata - Maps

September 12, 2019

My boarding aunty (Neela Desilva) made me two booklets (PDF links are given), on the great cities of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa. She ha...

Rohana Wijeweera - An Unbiased Story of JVP (1971-1989)

March 5, 2019

When watching ‘Ginnen Upan Seethala’, I felt it was quite one sided. I wanted to know both sides of history and their justifications. Rec...

Aba's 2018

December 31, 2018

Asked out a girl for the first time and got respectfully rejected. Started the year in a tent sandwiched between a graveyard and the mo...

மாட்டிறைச்சியும் இந்துமதமும்

June 26, 2016

விவேகானந்தர் அமெரிக்காவில் தங்கியிருந்த போது மாட்டிறைச்சி தின்றார். இராமாயணத்தில், கொழுத்த கன்றை அடித்து உணவாக்கி இராமனுக்குப் பரத்வாஜ ...

இனங்களும் இனவாதமும்

February 20, 2016

This is my essay from 2016 (first year at university) that won second place at the all-level essay competition. I’d like to thank Mr. Bas...