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watches
Farer Charlton Green - 38mm Swiss-Made GMT Watch With Sapphire Bezel Mansfield Cushion Case - 38.5mm Swiss-Made Manual Wind Watch World Timer
gpt-oss
llama.cpp guide: running gpt-oss with llama.cpp This downloads a 12GB model file from ggml-org/gpt-oss-20b-GGUF on Hugging Face, stores it in…
AI Tools
shortcut.ai -- AI powered Excel sheet. Not free $40/mo min. Shorcut.AI in use ( via )
LLM Task Specific Pruning
Came to know about Task specific pruning via this X/MaximeRivest post. See (Reda et al. 2025) Pruning might be useful for niche languages. (I am thinking of…
Sentiment Analysis
Using OpenAI API for Sentiment Analysis by Ashwin Malshe; Code - GitHub:ashgreat/Sentiment-Analysis-OpenAI. The usual/classic way of doing Sentiment Analysis…
Kindle
Kindle Modding Wiki jailbreaking it takes 5 minutes and turns it into one of the cheapest, most capable eInk devices you can own. Runs Linux! -- via x/dqmonn
Hetzner
I have been using Hetzner for a while, and this page is to keep notes on things that might be beneficial on Hetzner.
Dokploy
Why use Dokploy -- DIY Serverless (with coreOS + dokploy)) load that VPS with a bomb-proof no-config OS like coreOS, and put Dokploy on it for a no-fuss…
AI POC to Production
Via Jason Liu on LinkedIn The gap between AI demos and production isn't about reasoning quality anymore, it's about context. Three critical lessons worth…
LanceDB
LanceDB · GitHub where lancedb/lance is "Modern columnar data format for ML and LLMs implemented in Rust. Convert from parquet in 2 lines of code for 100x…
Lakehouse
lake house = data lake + data warehouse. stores raw, unstructured, and semi-structured data cheaply, often on object-storage like a data lake. supports ACID…
Image Generation
Qwen-Image lightning generation on Apple Silicon: This will download 1.7GB of Lora in the folder you start it from. 9:35:30- -- Qwen-Image-Edit: Image Editing…
BAML
(Vaibhav Gupta and team 2024) is a simple prompting language for building reliable AI workflows and agents by BoundaryML. GitHub - BoundaryML/baml: The AI…
awesome awesome
Collection of "Awesome X" collections. Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps: Collection of awesome LLM apps with AI Agents and RAG using OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and…
Extract Structured Information
Extracting structured information from unstructured text using LLMs is a good tool to have in your llm toolkit. Google's langextract is one such python library…
AI on a budget
What if you do not want to use AI SaaS products for any reason (monetary - subscriptions add up quick, privacy - do not want share your data with companies…
PDFs for LLM
Extracting content, and retaining all the semantic information presented in texts, tables, charts, graphs, and other visual elements in a manner that is most…
streamlit
Streamlit is a python library to build data apps. This is similar to observable, and evidence. With uv, it is easy to see what streamlit looks like -- uv run…
Evidence
Evidence is "Business Intelligence as Code"; which means it allows you to build reports, and standard business data visualization ( charts, and basic graphics)…
Offline AI
Can we run AI and #ai tools offline? What would it take? These are interesting and important questions. Some thoguhts on that -- I Want Everything Local…
AI Companies
-Fixie.ai turbopuffer
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania is low key the king of American urbanism. It's like a time capsule, you've got hundreds of little towns and dozens of midsized cities where normal…
AI Powered Data Engineering
The title of this post is a good starting point to start thinking and capturing what would "AI Powered Data Engineering" look like? AI-Powered Data…
statichost-eu
GDPR-compliant European static site hosting - statichost.eu is a static hosting website that is an alternative to cloudflare and github pages. It works by…
Litestar
Litestar is a python framework that makes different set of choices compared to many popular frameworks likd fastapi, and flask, that help you in growing the…
Running Notes on AI Agents
Note: Similar to Running Notes on RAG. AI Agents will likely shine in areas where there is demand for solutions, but is constrained by demand on talent to do…
Models as a Service
Models as a Service (MaaS). huggingface is the main player here. bring together most advanced machine learning models from the AI community, and streamlines…
Running Notes on RAG
RAG is at the heart of many AI deployments going on today, and pershaps my own interest in the topic, and engaging with it, I see many articles, and new items…
Zen To Go
Zen to Go, is one of my all time favorite book of #quotation It is an eminently #easy-to-pickup book.
The Portable Curmudgeon
is a book of quotes by Jon Winokur.
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