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Building programming media for novices

I stayed with my friends at Rancho Cucamonga in Jan 2024.

stream processing

a selction of scala libraries, tools etc

Collection of notes on Java 21 Virtual Threads: a performant alternative for io intensive applications for async frameworks. Not using an async framework tremendously simplifies your code. Code complexity has an enormous projection on…

Grab your own sweet-looking '.is-a.dev' subdomain.

Drogon: A C++14/17/20 based HTTP web application framework running on Linux/macOS/Unix/Windows

you write code that writes code.. Hmm... sounds (familiar)

Embeddings: What they are and why they matter TomBot2000: automatically finding related posts using LLMs

some magazines

GitHub - allenai/awesome-open-source-lms: Friends of OLMo and their links. Papers Appears to be an exhaustive survey paper -- (Chen et al. 2023) (Zhuang et al. 2024) ChuXin, an entirely open-source language model with a size of 1.6 billion…

what I found when I searched for myself

LLMs that could be run on local machines

by Orson Scott Card The environment that nurtures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa. Programming is the Great Game. It consumes you, body and soul. When you're caught up in it, nothing else matters…

List of my websites apart from this one. Hosted on flyio: btred -- a sandbox to play with redbean btnews -- an installation of FreshRSS Hosted on vercel: Annotated source code with Pandoc and highlight.js Lobste.rs web HN web Hosted on…

Retrieval Augmented Generation

a framework that helps LLM apps to ingest and access data sources.

a collection of essays written by others

Poor Man's Explanation of Kalman Filtering: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Matrix Inversion : Roger M. Du Plessis : Internet Archive

Tart - Tart is a virtualization toolset to build, run and manage macOS and Linux virtual machines on Apple Silicon. Workstation VMs with LXD & Multipass UCB CS294-113: Virtual Machines and Managed Runtimes

Spreadsheet and spreadsheet+database like applications that can be use for building applications, analytics tools, forms etc. Famous commerical apps are - airtable. Grist | The Evolution of Spreadsheets Budibase | Build internal tools in…

an app that automatically tracks how you spend time on your devices.

analytics database

YC Safe Financing Documents | Y Combinator Do Things that Don't Scale by Paul Graham. Frank Lee tweet with examples. Startup success rate levelsio via X/levelsio Startup success rate Pat Walls via X/thepatwalls

a modern alternative to TeX and friends.

Not the Internet of Sh-

Blogging was the best thing about the 2000's internet

MacOS application to manipulate text using javascript

French maker of open source generative-ai software

not to get lost in

those who did not receive it themselves. those who associate an English education is the only way for everyone, especially their children to have a "good life" those who grew up at a time of severe resource crunch and the only way to get…

Algernon is a webserver. Using Lua Local Require From the comments: TODO: I have to figure out if this works for loading .so files also. Frictionless workflow to use algernon powered website unless I want to compile a page and publish it…

I'll do it later I'll start at HH:MM Let me quickly do something other than what moves the needle Do the work; nothing else. "Turning up is half the battle/work". Where are you turning up to? Do you have a set place, a setting that gets…

on searching text stored in databases

STATUS: DRAFT Deep Learning enabled, realistic sounding Text To Speech (TTS) and Speech To Text (STT) tools for Kannada. There is a need for developing good, reliable, open-source TTS and STT solutions for Kannada. Text to speech means…

In this deeply informative video, Jeremy Howard, co-founder of fast.ai and creator of the ULMFiT approach on which all modern language models (LMs) are based, takes you on a comprehensive journey through the fascinating landscape of LMs. Starting with the foundational concepts, Jeremy introduces the architecture and mechanics that make these AI systems tick. He then delves into critical evaluations of GPT-4, illuminates practical uses of language models in code writing and data analysis, and offers hands-on tips for working with the OpenAI API. The video also provides expert guidance on…

notes on API Development

What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?—Stephen Wolfram Writings ChatCloudflare A Chat app built with React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and Cloudflare Workers AI. Based on GPT-4 Playground by Nashex

2023-09-29 Andrew Ng: Opportunities in AI - 2023 - YouTube 2023-10-07 ONNX | Home is an open format built to represent machine learning models. ONNX defines a common set of operators - the building blocks of machine learning and deep…

The Case for Bad Coffee I don't have memories of such bonding experiences taking place over a flat white at a Manhattan coffee shop or a $5 cup of nitro iced coffee at a Brooklyn cafe. High-end coffee doesn't usually lend itself to such…