Weeknote 2026/w1: Easing into the new year with reading, temples and mosquitos

Family travels through Udaipur, Vijayawada and Hyderabad, visiting temples and villages, plus kicking off the TESSERA 2025 embeddings.

After an amazingly fun trip to Udaipur and lots of family chitchat, we got over to Vijayawada and then Hyderabad, while visiting family temples and villages en route.

The mosquitos got me good
The mosquitos got me good
But it was worth it to find the Madhavapeddi family temple!
But it was worth it to find the Madhavapeddi family temple!

I wrote my reading list in my happy new year 2026 post. And just to hit the ground running, Frank Feng and I got the TESSERA embeddings for 2025 kicked off on the second day of the new year, since all the Sentinel-1/2 data was ready for us to generate the annualised embeddings.

Looking forward to the new year. If 2025 is anything to go by, 2026 is going to be a wild ride with AI developments...

References

[1]Madhavapeddy (2026). Happy new year and my fave readings of the year. 10.59350/y9f0e-raa45