SARATH
THARAYIL
DATA SCIENTIST // PROFESSIONAL GENERALIST
Data by profession, technology by obsession. Making sense of data and the machines that create it. Absolutely terrible at small talk, but can talk about anything else.
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> Kerala's wedding marketplace. Couples search vendors by their date, see availability the vendor has actually confirmed, compare structured quotes, and book with protected payments.
SARATH THARAYIL
DATA SCIENTIST/GENERALIST
Absolutely terrible at small talk, but can talk about anything else.
അത്തം കറുത്താൽ ഓണം വെളുക്കും
// Atham karuthaal Onam velukum
Boids
Emergent flocking simulation
Kalyra
> Kerala's wedding marketplace. Couples search vendors by their date, see availability the vendor has actually confirmed, compare structured quotes, and book with protected payments.
Recent Logs
Recent Logs
Kalyra lets couples search Kerala wedding vendors by their date, see availability the vendor has actually confirmed, compare structured quotes, and book with protected payments. Here is what it does and how it is built.
Sarath Tharayil
Couples search Kerala wedding vendors by their date, see availability the vendor has actually confirmed, compare structured quotes, and book with protected payments.
Project
A tiny web app I made lately for Fun Friday with my colleagues: trivia, rebus puzzles, a logo quiz, and a True or False round you play standing up.
Sarath Tharayil
A small game night app for Fun Friday at work, with trivia, rebus, logo quiz, and a stand-up True or False round.
Project
Six D&D adventurers now live on my homepage. Here's who they are, how they work, and the RAG chatbot I'm planning so each one can actually talk about me.
Sarath Tharayil
A Wikipedia racing habit with a friend, a website that solves the game in advance, and the accidental discovery that any topic on Wikipedia is a maximum of about six links from any other.
Sarath Tharayil
A guy on Instagram is convinced a spider in his room knows his sleep schedule and listens to his earbud through the night. Let's talk about it.
Sarath Tharayil
Unlimited-OCR is a small, open Baidu model that reads entire multi-page PDFs in a single pass, instead of page by page like almost everything before it.
Sarath Tharayil
A real-time psychological strategy game where guessing right isn't about math, it's about guessing what everyone else is about to guess. Here's how I built it, and why the hardest part had nothing to do with game design.
Sarath Tharayil
A real-time psychological strategy game recreating the "guess 80% of the average" numbers game from Alice in Borderland, with AI opponents and live multiplayer.
Project
A serious look at the prophetic perfect tense, a Hebrew grammatical habit where the future gets written in the past tense because the prophet was, apparently, just that sure.
Sarath Tharayil
A poem by Otto René Castillo, in English and in Malayalam, posted in solidarity with the protests at Jantar Mantar.
Sarath Tharayil
Eleven barefoot Bengali footballers beat the British Army's own regiment at its own game, and then spent the next two decades watching the empire try to make sure it never happened again.
Sarath Tharayil
A quick walkthrough of everything I just added to saraththarayil.com — weather card, lab simulations, guestbook, console commands, navbar overhaul, and a few other things.
Sarath Tharayil
Sarath Tharayil
India builds rockets and runs global software. Its cities can't build a footpath. This is the story of how three policy decisions, made in 1898, 1956, and 1962, engineered the dysfunction of the Indian metropolis.
Sarath Tharayil
Kerala's Media Accountability & Political Transparency Platform. A civic technology platform to fact-check claims, track news outlet credibility, and hold politicians accountable.
Project
In 2025, mathematicians proved that Dijkstra's 1959 algorithm isn't the fastest way to find a route. Then someone actually built the new one. Dijkstra won anyway.
Sarath Tharayil
For seven years, something kept briefly killing GPS signals across an entire continent. In 2026, a team of researchers finally found out what.
Sarath Tharayil
How a 30-minute fuzzy search task in a live interview became a search engine running 21 parallel algorithms, a live signal panel, and a full diagnostics modal.
Sarath Tharayil