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Welcome to Prakash Sellathurai's Web Page

Prakash is a hobbyist turned professional Software Engineer with a background in Mechatronics. He is a tinkerer, deeply passionate about exploring and building new technologies.

Featured essay

Bottom Up

Jan 29, 2026

Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe

#learning #problem-solving #programming

Quotes

If you don’t work on important problems, it’s not likely that you'll do important work.
Richard Hamming
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
Frank Herbert, Dune
Scars signal skin in the game.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Elite students climb confidently until they reach a level of competition sufficiently intense to beat their dreams out of them. Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege of being turned into conformists, students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in skyrocketing tuition that continues to outpace inflation. Why are we doing this to ourselves?
Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Recent experiments

Analysis on Lazy Investing strategy Economics
epoll_server Epoll
dna-sequence-file-io Biology
AIracer-with-drift-control Competition Scripts
converge-numbber-base 10 Math

Recent notes

Notes Agentic Systems
Development Cpython
Notes Modern Micro Processors
Elastic Search And Solr Search Relevance
Tail Unix Commands

Precepts

Featured projects

Heimdall

Heimdall is a feature-rich RSS feed curator available as a browser extension.

cpython

Fork for PR: #148226 Fix null dereference in Generic Alias object

numba

Fork for PR: Add support for np.mean to handle scalar inputs

pyqoi

Python Library to Encode/Decode the images in “Quite OK Image” (qoi) format

DeFIR

Image Retrieval System to find similar images based on their content using the Nearest Neighbor Search Algorithm and Deep Learning.

keras

Fork for PR: add split_dataset utility #16398

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