# malayalam (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover malayalam. Page: Feed: --- ## [Grapholinguistics Proceedings 2024](https://thottingal.in/blog/2026/07/24/grapholinguitscs-proceedings-2024/) _2026-07-23 · Santhosh Thottingal_ In 2024, I presented a paper on "Parametric Type Design" based on the technology behind the Nupuram font at the Grapholinguistics conference in Italy. The proceedings of the conference—edited by Yannis Haralambous—are now published as a two-volume set. Print editions are available on Amazon, and free digital versions are accessible online. Grapholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field dedicated… ## [പത്തുകോടിയുടെ മലയാളം കോർപ്പസ്](https://thottingal.in/blog/2026/06/26/malayalam-corpus/) _2026-06-25 · Santhosh Thottingal_ മലയാളത്തിൽ AI കോർപ്പസ് നിർമിക്കാനായി പത്തുകോടി രൂപ ഈയിടെ അവതരിപ്പിച്ച കേരളബഡ്ജറ്റിൽ നീക്കിയിരിത്തിയിട്ടുണ്ട്. ആർട്ടിഫിഷ്യൽ ഇന്റലിജൻസ് സമീപകാലത്ത് നേടിയിട്ടുള്ള വലിയ പുരോഗതിയുടെ പശ്ചാത്തലത്തിൽ മലയാളഭാഷ പുറംതള്ളാതെയിരിക്കാനായിട്ടാണ് ഈ "മലയാളം AI സംരംഭം" ബഡ്ജറ്റിൽ വിഭാവനം ചെയ്തിരിക്കുന്നത്. അത് സദുദ്ദേശപരവും കാലോചിതവുമാണ്. അതോടൊപ്പം തന്നെ ഈ പത്തുകോടികൊണ്ട് നമുക്കെന്തു ചെയ്യാനാകുമെന്നതിനെക്കുറിച്ചുള്ള… ## [ഡിറ്റക്ടീവ് ബ്യോംകേഷ് ബക്ഷി - മലയാള പരിഭാഷ](https://thottingal.in/blog/2026/06/05/byomkesh-bakshi/) _2026-06-04 · Santhosh Thottingal_ ശരദിന്ദു ബന്ദോപാധ്യായ രചിച്ച അനശ്വര ബംഗാളി കുറ്റാന്വേഷണപരമ്പരയായ ഡിറ്റക്ടീവ് ബ്യോംകേഷ് ബക്ഷിയുടെ മലയാളപരിഭാഷ മാതൃഭൂമി ബുക്ക്സ് പുറത്തിറക്കുന്ന വാർത്ത ഞാൻ വായിച്ചിരുന്നു. വാർത്തയോടൊപ്പം പുസ്തകത്തിന്റെ കവർപേജിന്റെ ചിത്രവും ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നു. കവർപേജിൽ മഞ്ജരി ഫോണ്ട് കണ്ടതുകൊണ്ടും ബ്യോംകേഷ് ബക്ഷിയെപ്പറ്റി പലയിടത്തും കേട്ടിട്ടുള്ളതുംകൊണ്ടാണ് പുസ്തകം വാങ്ങിയത്. മലയാളത്തിലേക്ക് പരിഭാഷപ്പെടുത്തിയത് പ്രശസ്ത… ## [Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile](https://thottingal.in/blog/2026/03/29/home-maker/) _2026-03-28 · Santhosh Thottingal_ Your laptop has ripgrep, installed via cargo install . ruff is there too, via uv tool install . golangci-lint came from go install . bash-language-server was npm i -g . Neovim was a tarball download. Kitty was a curl script. Six months later you get a new machine, or you just want to upgrade or reinstall. What do you even have installed? How did you install each one? Which version? Good luck. This… ## [Rendering complex scripts in terminal and OSC 66](https://thottingal.in/blog/2026/03/22/complex-scripts-in-terminal/) _2026-03-21 · Santhosh Thottingal_ As a programmer, I spend most of my time in a terminal application like Kitty . I use Neovim as my code editor. I use CLI based AI agents. But the biggest pain, even in 2026, is that there is no terminal that can render complex scripts like Indic languages or Arabic. This is a significant limitation for me, as most of my work involves language processing. In this article, I will give a brief… ## [CLI for transforming Wikipedia articles to text, markdown, and JSON](https://thottingal.in/blog/2026/03/14/wikipedia-article-transform/) _2026-03-13 · Santhosh Thottingal_ We are witnessing a resurgence and evolution of Command Line Interfaces (CLIs), accelerated by AI agents. Text-based, scriptable CLI tools work very well with LLM-based workflows. Accessing Wikipedia articles during an agent session is common. Usually, a webfetch call is used to get the HTML for a page from a URL like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026\_Winter\_Olympics . That works, and LLMs are… ## [Preparing sentence dataset from a wikipedia](https://thottingal.in/blog/2026/03/14/wikisentences/) _2026-03-13 · Santhosh Thottingal_ I'm excited to announce two new resources for natural language processing researchers and developers: wikisentences - A Rust-based tool for extracting sentence datasets from Wikipedia dumps in any language ml-wiki-sentences - A dataset of 2.25 million Malayalam sentences extracted from Wikipedia, now available on HuggingFace, prepared using the above tool. The Wikisentences Tool The wikisentences… ## [How to identify and annotate sentences in an HTML page](https://thottingal.in/blog/2026/03/07/html-sentence-segmentation/) _2026-03-06 · Santhosh Thottingal_ If you have ever needed to work with sentences inside an HTML page — highlight them, translate them, read them aloud — you quickly run into a deceptively awkward problem. The text is not plain text. It is interspersed with tags, attributes, inline elements, and markup that your sentence detector has no business reading. This post walks through an exploratory JavaScript project —… ## [Rewriting the multilingual sentence segmenter - sentencex - in Rust](https://thottingal.in/blog/2026/03/07/sentencex-rust/) _2026-03-06 · Santhosh Thottingal_ In October 2023, we announced sentencex — a sentence segmentation library built for the wide language diversity of Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects. The original release comprised two separate libraries: one in Python (used by MinT , our machine translation service) and one in JavaScript (used by Content Translation ). Both were rule-based, practical, and got the job done. But maintaining two… ## [From Tokens to Text: A Trigram Markov Model for Malayalam](https://thottingal.in/blog/2026/02/28/malayalam-markov-chain/) _2026-02-27 · Santhosh Thottingal_ Ever wondered how a computer learns to generate text that actually looks like Malayalam? Not just random characters, but something with actual structure? I'm not talking about Large Language Models here. I'm talking about Small Language Models that are efficient and explainable. something you can build and run on your own laptop. In my previous " The Broken Token " article, I presented a Malayalam… ## [Zuverlässiges Hosting, Domains, Server (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/L0K2MIoaOYop) _2026-02-27 · **Sponsored**_ Zuverlässige Infrastruktur, niedrige Preise und skalierbare Server für deinen Webauftritt. ## [The Broken Token: Tokenization for Malayalam Language Models](https://thottingal.in/blog/2026/02/27/malayalam-tokenizer-llm/) _2026-02-26 · Santhosh Thottingal_ Standard LLMs fragment Malayalam words into 15+ meaningless pieces, destroying the semantic signal required for learning. This post details the training of custom BPE and Unigram tokenizers, and explores why resolving fragmentation is the necessary first step toward solving the larger problems of data scarcity and complex morphology ## [Variable interpolatable smooth curves and outlines](https://thottingal.in/blog/2026/02/20/var-interpolatable-smooth-curves/) _2026-02-19 · Santhosh Thottingal_ I am a type designer using non-conventional approaches to type design. Since 2020, I have been experimenting with parametric type design approaches based on a modernized MetaPost approach. I have written extensively about this approach in this blog . I have also published a paper 1 on that. One of the drawbacks of the MetaPost-based approach is that MetaPost is quite old , actually older than me.… ## [Parasakthi Movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/parasakthi) _2026-01-14 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Review of the Sudha Kongara\`s Parasakthi ## [svg2glif Rust library](https://thottingal.in/blog/2025/12/15/svg2glif/) _2025-12-14 · Santhosh Thottingal_ I published svg2glif - a Rust crate to convert SVG vector graphics into UFO (Unified Font Object) GLIF format, making it easy to incorporate SVG artwork into font development workflows. Source code Library documentation I am migrating my python based type engineering workflow to rust (fontmake -\> fontc) and this is one of the tool I need. ❯ target/release/svg2glif -i examples/A.svg -o… ## [Kaantha Movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/kantha) _2025-11-14 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Kantha review: An exceptional investigative thriller with outstanding performances, stunning cinematography, and clever narrative layers. Dulquer Salmaan and Samuthirakani shine in this must-watch theatrical experience ## [Which Browser to Use in 2026: My Messy Notes](https://akashmilton.com/blog/which-browser-to-use-2026) _2025-11-08 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ This blog is a collection of my notes on the best browsers to use in 2026. ## [Talk - "How AI learns Malayalam"](https://thottingal.in/blog/2025/11/03/malayalam-university-symbosium/) _2025-11-02 · Santhosh Thottingal_ On November 3rd, I spoke at Malayalam University on "How AI learns Malayalam," tracing how humans acquire language versus how Large Language Models learn from patterns at scale. This invited session was part of Symbosium on modernization of Malayalam language, organized by Sahitya Akademi and Malayalam University . Using Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures and the “colorless green ideas” example to… ## [Dude Movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/dude) _2025-10-17 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Review of the tamil movie Dude(2025) starring Pradeep Ranganathan, Maitha Baiju and SarathKumar ## [Idli Kadai Movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/idli-kadai) _2025-10-03 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Review of the malayalam movie Idli Kadai(2025) starring Dhanush ## [Arratai App Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/arattai-app-review) _2025-10-01 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ This blog reviews the Arratai app, an whatsapp alternative from Zoho, which nowhere remotely is. ## [Transcript-Driven Stock Discovery (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/GSDmTFjQJ8CG) _2025-09-30 · **Sponsored**_ Ranked, evidence-backed watchlists from indexed executive transcripts for 1–2 quarter horizons ## [Malayalam Morphology Analyzer Now Available as a Rust Crate](https://thottingal.in/blog/2025/09/08/mlmorph-rust-bindings/) _2025-09-07 · Santhosh Thottingal_ I am excited to announce that the Malayalam morphology analyzer library, mlmorph , is now available as a Rust crate on crates.io. This Rust binding became possible thanks to the availability of Rust bindings for mlmorph's underlying library - the Stuttgart Finite State Transducer (SFST) formalism . You can find the SFST Rust crate here . The crate comes with comprehensive documentation and example… ## [Coolie Movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/coolie) _2025-08-20 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Review of the tamil movie Coolie(2025) starring Rajinikanth, Nagarjuna, Upendra directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj ## [WQ42: Grounding LLMs in Wikidata Facts via Tool Calling](https://thottingal.in/blog/2025/06/21/wq42-llm-wikidata/) _2025-06-20 · Santhosh Thottingal_ Integrating Knowledge Graphs (KGs) with Large Language Models (LLMs) is a well-explored research field. KGs are vast, structured databases storing factual associations as graph edges. KGs can help LLMs for tasks like question answering, drawing on the structured, often up-to-date information within KGs, thereby mitigating the risk of hallucination. For instance, an LLM that can query Wikidata—a… ## [qrender: Render wikidata item in different formats](https://thottingal.in/blog/2025/06/16/qrender/) _2025-06-15 · Santhosh Thottingal_ Wikidata is a rich knowledge graph, but its raw data format can be challenging for both humans and AI to process effectively. This blog post explores how I addressed these challenges by creating qrender, a tool for rendering Wikidata items in more human-readable and AI-friendly formats. In my previous article about qjson , I explained the importance of retrieving all information about a Wikidata… ## [Madras Matinee Movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/madras-matinee) _2025-06-13 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Review of the malayalam movie Madras Matinee(2025) ## [Upskill and Upgrade](https://thottingal.in/blog/2025/06/07/upgrade/) _2025-06-06 · Santhosh Thottingal_ In April 2024, I took a two-month sabbatical from work. During this period, and in the year that followed, I dedicated significant effort to improving my skills. Having spent nearly 20 years in software engineering, I've witnessed substantial changes in the field. Opportunities to learn and practice new skills don't always arise naturally at work. While I made a conscious effort to dedicate time… ## [Thug Life Movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/thug-life) _2025-06-05 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Review of the malayalam movie Thug Life(2025) starring Kamal, STR ## [Retro Movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/retro) _2025-05-03 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Review of the Karthik Subburaj\`s movie Retro(2024) starring Surya and Pooja Hegde ## [Court: State vs A Nobdoy Movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/court-a-state-vs-a-nobody) _2025-05-01 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Review of the Tollywood movie Court: State vs A Nobody ## [Gangers Movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/gangers) _2025-04-26 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Review of the tamil movie Gangers(2025)starring Sundar C, Vadivelu ## [Non-custodial Crypto Payments & Escrow (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/HnsCq2z41AKR) _2025-04-25 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto with trustless escrow, instant confirmations, and no KYC ## [qjson: Fetching all properties of a wikidata item in a single API call](https://thottingal.in/blog/2025/04/15/qjson/) _2025-04-14 · Santhosh Thottingal_ For those deeply involved with Wikidata, the richness of its interconnected data is both a blessing and a challenge when it comes to programmatic access. While the standard wbgetentities API endpoint is fundamental, retrieving the complete set of properties, including labels and values, for a given item often leads to a cascade of recursive API calls. For example, suppose we fetch all properties… ## [Good Bad Ugly Movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/good-bad-ugly) _2025-04-12 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Review of the tamil movie Good Bad Ugly ## [An Experiment in Detecting Wikipedia Edit Policy Violations with LLMs](https://thottingal.in/blog/2025/04/04/wikipedia-editcheck-llm/) _2025-04-03 · Santhosh Thottingal_ Wikipedia, the world's largest online encyclopedia, relies on a massive community of volunteers to maintain its accuracy and neutrality. But with so many editors, how do you ensure edits adhere to Wikipedia's strict policies? I decided to explore whether Large Language Models (LLMs) could be used to automatically detect policy violations in Wikipedia edits. Here's what I found. Wikipedia has… ## [Test Movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/test) _2025-03-29 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Review of the tamil movie Test ## [Veera Dheera Sooran Movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/veera-dheera-sooran-2) _2025-03-29 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Review of the tamil movie Veera Dheera Sooran ## [Perusu Movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/perusu) _2025-03-20 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Review of the tamil movie Perusu(2025)starring Vaibhav, Niharika, Munishkanth and Bala Saravanan ## [Natural Language based question answering system for Wikipedia and Wikidata](https://thottingal.in/blog/2025/03/14/natural-language-qa-for-wikipedia-and-wikidata/) _2025-03-13 · Santhosh Thottingal_ This is a blog post version a paper titled "Question-to-Question Retrieval for Hallucination-Free Knowledge Access: An Approach for Wikipedia and Wikidata Question Answering" available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11301 . In the world of Large Language Models (LLMs) and question answering systems, hallucination - where models generate plausible but incorrect information - remains a significant… ## [Nilavuku Enmel Ennadi Kobam Movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/Nilavukku-enmel-ennadi-kobam) _2025-02-23 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Review of the Nilavuku Enmel Ennadi Kobam ## [Dragon Movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/dragon) _2025-02-22 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Review of the Pradeep Ranganaths Dragon ## [Kadhallika Neramillai movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/kadhalika-neramillai) _2025-01-20 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Kadhalikka Neramillai is a technically well-made film with a disjointed plot, loosely inspired by The Switch, but its contrived story and implausible events undermine its impact. While the background score and some inclusivity are commendable, it remains a forgettable one-time casual watch. ## [Game Changer Movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/game-changer) _2025-01-10 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Game Changer is a Tamil family drama by Shankar, starring Ramcharan, SJ Surya ## [Jeans Movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/jeans) _2024-12-29 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Jeans (1998) is a Tamil family drama by Shankar, starring Prashanth and Aishwarya Rai. It’s a visually stunning film with twins, humor, and a memorable climax. ## [Year 2024 in Review](https://thottingal.in/blog/2024/12/22/2024/) _2024-12-22 · Santhosh Thottingal_ This year was also a busy one. There were fewer travels compared to last year. I went to Africa for the first time (Kenya) and twice to the US. 14 flights in total. This year, I wrote an academic paper. From the research papers I have written so far, I received a total of 187 citations this year. Attended and spoke at three conferences. Gave three public lectures. The most proud moment was… ## [Viduthalai Movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/viduthalai) _2024-12-22 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Vetrimaaran's film masterfully tackles class oppression and systemic bureaucracy with a faceless antagonist. Vijay Sethupathi, Soori, and Rajiv Menon deliver standout performances that elevate the narrative. Despite minor flaws, this is arguably Vetrimaaran's finest work, with a thought-provoking, open-ended conclusion. ## [Tech for Non-tech folks](https://akashmilton.com/blog/tech-for-non-tech-folks) _2024-12-14 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ This article offers practical, surface-level insights into technology, tailored for non-developers in tech-adjacent roles, to enhance understanding and collaboration with technical teams. It focuses on the possibilities and limitations of IT, specifically web technologies. ## [Grapholinguistics 2024](https://thottingal.in/blog/2024/10/25/grapholinguistics-2024/) _2024-10-25 · Santhosh Thottingal_ I presented a paper titled "Parametric type design in the era of variable and color fonts" in the Grapholinguistics conference 2024 . The conference was held in Università Ca' Foscari, Venice from 23rd to 25th October 2024. The conference was a hybrid event with both physical and virtual participation. G21C (Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, also called /gʁafematik/) is a biennial conference… ## [Vettaiyan Movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/vettaiyan) _2024-10-20 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Review of the Vettaiyan movie ## [Meiyazhagan Movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/meiyazhagan) _2024-10-05 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Review of the Meiyazhagan ## [Lubber Pandhu Movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/lubber-pandhu) _2024-10-04 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Review of the Lubber Pandhu ## [Vaazhai Movie Review](https://akashmilton.com/blog/movie-reviews/vaazhai) _2024-09-01 · undefined (Akash Milton) · Akash Milton's Blog_ Review of the tamil movie Vaazhai directed by Mari Selvaraj