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Essays
This is an attempt to collect (slowly), essays that I can recommend. Attention conservation notice: In the beginning, I will collect, later i'll curate. AI…
Kalman Filtering
Poor Man's Explanation of Kalman Filtering: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Matrix Inversion : Roger M. Du Plessis : Internet Archive
virtualization
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…
spreadsheets
Spreadsheet and spreadsheet+database like applications that can be use for building applications, analytics tools, forms etc. Famous commerical apps are…
Activity Watch
ActivityWatch - Open-source time tracker runs on http://localhost:5600/ is an app that automatically tracks how you spend time on your devices. It is open…
scratchdb
ScratchDB Via HN announcement: ScratchDB provides two endpoints [1]: one to insert data and another to query. When you send any JSON, it automatically creates…
startup
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…
typst
Introduction Typst is a modern typesetting language. See this post for a good intro to the topic -- Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX…
Home Automation
The midwit home from DYNOMIGHT INTERNET NEWSLETTER. But perhaps there’s a third way. What if you try to achieve the goals of a smart home, but you rule out…
Some selected Blogs
See btnews for my public feed aggregator; created in 2023H2, and haven't imported all the blogs I want to follow from my OPML feed ---- Not all of them may be…
boop
Boop by OKatBest is a javascript scriptable macOS application that is handy for manipulating plain text. The core idea being -- use boop instead of pasting (…
Mistral AI
Mistral AI is is a European (French?) start-up with a global focus specialising in generative artificial intelligence. Mistral AI aims to develop new models of…
Random Forests
(Louppe 2015) is a PhD thesis by Gilles Louppe; implemented in scikit-learn an in-depth analysis of random forests, consistently calling into question each and…
Who does not want grade school level instruction in mother tongues?
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"…
Notes on Algernon
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…
Enemies of Productivity
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…
Full Text Search
PostgreSQL pgbm25: Elastic-Quality Full Text Search Inside Postgres - ParadeDB pgbm25 is named after BM25, the algorithm used by modern search engines to…
Kannada TTS and STT
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…
API Development
Reading Everything I know about good API design by sean goedecke Tools The following should be considered as alternatives for Postman. bruno -- open source API…
chatgpt
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…
Artificial Intelligence
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…
Coffee
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…
xtts
Major Open Source Engine is Coqui. Others to consider -- Whisper, and Piper. XTTS model weights from Coqui - coqui-ai/TTS: 🐸💬 - a deep learning toolkit for…
John Gray
Articles James Lovelock remembered by John Gray | James Lovelock | The Guardian; archive.is The experimental station was so called because Jim made most of his…
Small LLMs aka SLMs
Finetuning ( via ) PEFT + TRL -- Examples of using peft with trl to finetune 8-bit models with Low Rank Adaption (LoRA) Unsloth -- Fine-tuning LLMs Guide |…
Unfinished Projects
I should ideally start any and all new projects here so that I can keep track of what I've started and yet unfinished. Inspired by main.horse (who talks about…
Compressing well is related to intelligence
Hutter Prize -- 500'000€ Prize for Compressing Human Knowledge sponsored by Marcus Hutter This compression contest is motivated by the fact that being able to…
Compressing well is related to intelligence
Hutter Prize -- 500'000€ Prize for Compressing Human Knowledge sponsored by Marcus Hutter This compression contest is motivated by the fact that being able to…
Local First Development
Some notes on Local-First Development Show HN: ElectricSQL, Postgres to SQLite active-active sync for local-first apps It's an open source, local-first sync…
Segment Anything Model
Segment Anything -- The Segment Anything Model (SAM) produces high quality object masks from input prompts such as points or boxes, and it can be used to…
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