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Arabic
I was interested in learning to read Arabic script and even bought a book with CD on it, in early 2020s. Didn't get around to it, and I left the book in India…
Semantic Search
Tools run-llama/semtools: Semantic search and document parsing tools for the command line
Jujutsu
Jujutsu is a version control system with a significantly simplified mental model and command-line interface compared to Git, without sacrificing expressibility…
AI Image Editing
Nano Banana — Google's Next-Gen Image Editing AI (Free to Try) | Nano Banana Precise, controllable, and consistent image edits with mask-free inpainting…
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…
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