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Apache Pinot
Apache Pinot™ -- "The real-time analytics open source platform for lightning-fast insights, effortless scaling, and cost-effective data-driven decisions." What…
Composable Data Systems
Wes McKinney - The Road to Composable Data Systems: Thoughts on the Last 15 Years and the Future; (Pedreira et al. 2023) PDF The stack proposed by this…
Quarto
Homepage: Quarto. If you are using pandoc to publish stuff, quarto might be a better wrapper for "books". My interest was re-piqued because now they also…
Contact and Links
You can email me at pradeep🌀btbytes.com. ---- More often than not, I choose btbytes as the username on any web services I use. github linkedin twitter…
Generative Art
generative art is made by a process that has some level of autonomy. The role of the artist is to design or influence this process to some degree. This process…
Compile To Javascript Languages
Pretty much all major languages compile[^1] to Javascript .. so this is no longer an exclusive category. This page is an attempt to capture slightly…
iusethis
Computers Macbook M2 Pro 14-inch, 2023 with 16GB RAM. Custom built PC for Linux and Windows. NixOS 24.05 Windows 11 dual boot Software Editors: zed, sublime…
Open Source
[How free software hijacked Philip Hazel's life [LWN.net]](https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/978463/608c876c1153fd31/) Philip Hazel was 51 when he began the Exim…
Quotes
"Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but do it like you love it." -- Mike Tyson "People of very great ability will as a rule get on better with people of…
Data Apps
Data applications (usually), web application frameworks that make it easy to publish data as dynamic reports that have an element of interactivity to them that…
http
davecheney/httpstat: It's like curl -v, with colours. "It is a single file🌟 Python script that has no dependency👏 and is compatible with Python 3🍻" -- Hurl…
PaaS
Dokku -- "The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen" piku -- "The tiniest PaaS you've ever seen. Piku allows you to do git push deployments to your own…
Charlie Munger
Here are 10 thoughts from Charlie Munger Why ignoring experts is smart: "You must have the confidence to override people with more credentials whose cognition…
Building Multimodal Search and RAG
Course notes from Building Multimodal Search and RAG about Multimodal Learning. Instructor: Sebastian Witalec, head of developer relations at Weaviate, human's…
github
Discovering Small GitHub Projects for Contributing to FOSS; interesting use of github search. Tools related to github: GitDiagram -- Turn any GitHub repository…
PDF
Stering-PDf - Locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files. See also PDFPea - Edit PDFs Online Securely and Free |…
Durable Execution
Open Source Durable Execution | Temporal Technologies Durable Execution is a development abstraction that preserves complete application state so that upon…
Django
Django from first principles Static site generator for Django - Django Distill While making https://thesummarist.net, I came across https://django-distill.com…
Sixteen boons
Blessing the newly weds - "Live a long life acquiring 16 boons" Via "Pathinarum Petru Peru Vazhvu Vazhga" 16 boons - "thudhi vaani veeram visayam sandhaanam…
Python Frontend Frameworks
Write complete web applications in Python without writing javascript. There are a large class of problems for which this is an excellent solution, without…
AI reading
Via AI Papers Community notes via \@zaph0id; Apr 2024. -- Ilya's reccommendation to Carmack.. also available as this Arc Folder with links to actual papers and…
Google Gemini
Gemini is Google's AI/llm model introduced in Dec '23 - Introducing Gemini: Google’s most capable AI model yet In Apr 2024, they announced Gemini 1.5 Pro…
SWE Agent
Devin from Cognitive AI made waves when it came out in March 2024. There are follow-on developments since then. SWE-Agent Agent Computer Interfaces Enable…
terraform
Winglang This is still in development, but interesting to keep an eye on, in light of Terraform/OpenTOFU kerfuffle. Written by the author of AWS CDK. Cloud…
Fine Tuning
Why fine tune? Greater Accuracy -- By tailoring the model to specific use cases and industries, it can better understand and generate contextually relevant…
cohere
Cohere -- an AI SaaS platform. It has - Command Embed and Rerank models. Cohere also has Fine Tuning. Command R+ Announced on Apr 4, 2024, where Command R+ is…
Text Embedding
See also: llm via ➡️ Text embedding models represent natural language as dense vectors, positioning semantically similar text near each other within the…
Publishing Apple Notes as a Website
Status: Ideating Apple Notes ships on all MacOS and iOS devices, and is a quick way to take notes; I have notes that I took 10+ years ago, that have survived…
Ray
(Moritz et al. 2018) PDF Ray unifies task-parallel and actor programming models in a single dynamic task graph and employs a scalable architecture enabled by…
Hyman G. Rickover
"I did not recruit extraordinary people. I recruited people who had extraordinary potential—and then I trained them." -- HGR Hyman G. Rickover was an admiral…
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