MoserMichael

notes on: Agentic workflows course by Andrew Ng

https://learn.deeplearning.ai/courses/agentic-ai/lesson/pu5xbv/welcome!

Module1

• the whole thing is about decomposing a workflow into a process with separate stages. A stage can either ask a LLM to do something or call an external tool (DB access, google query, etc)

(example: writing an essay, write outline, research th topic, write the essay)

MoserMichael

https://learn.deeplearning.ai/courses/retrieval-augmented-generation

by Zain Hassan

Module1

RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) gives the LLM direct access to customer supplied documents - specialized knowledge, that wer not art of the training data. Not everything is known during model training, the missing links are

• private databases (stuff that people/enterprises do not make public)
• hard to access information

MoserMichael

learning about Charlie Chaplin

Chaplin managed to create cinema as an form of art! So here I am taking some notes, as I study his work.

Nowadays we have many of his his movies on youtube (as the copyright is expiring, no matter what - when I was a kid any appearance of Chaplin on TV was an event!).

Movies are compressed representation (as compared to books). They use additional visual/audio clues to tell a story - and to create a different kind of experience. Also the dynamics of movie scripts are quite different as compared to storytelling in a book. Someone had to figure out what works and what does not, and that guy was Chaplin (who did not have a formal education in any of these areas...)

• His early work are two-reel movies. In many of them he is fighting a big bully adversary.
• This doesn't work will full length feature movies: starting with 'The Kid', and later in all his movies in 'United Artist' - the adversary is something bigger, like poverty in 'the Kid', the system in 'Modern Times', fa

MoserMichael

#!/bin/bash

GITHUB_USER_NAME=$1

if [[ "x${GITHUB_USER_NAME}" == "x" ]]; then
    cat <<EOF
Usage: $0 <github-user-name>"

Check out all gists or given github user - under the current directory.

MoserMichael

course on visual programming with Scratch

The aim here is to come up with a methodology/course of teaching the stuff, so the intended audience are teachers/parents who want to teach this stuff.

Scratch

A general intro to Scratch

• at the bottom of the page there is a dropdown for choosing your language (very important to some people)

MoserMichael

Learning about huggingface (and other AI stuff)

• the site: https://huggingface.co/
• at first the account is free, once you start using their GPU's you need a paid account
• main page ui
  • model hub : lots of trained open source models (sorted by trending)
  • datasets : open source datasets!!!
  • spaces - hosted apps on hugging space
• community (blogs/posts/daily papers)

MoserMichael

not very politically correct gist

I am taking the json from the following gist original rsdb gitst - local copy It contains a json with a set of records on racial and ethnical slurs.

Wrote a python script that does the following things

• create a json where all slurs are grouped by the name of the group, which is the subject of the slur slurs sorted by group name

MoserMichael

llama.cpp - reading the source code

looking through the llama.cpp source code, to learn about language models. Disclaimer: it's january 2026, so things will likely change, at some point.

• llama.cpp repo link
• build instructions
  • contains instructions on how to build the debug version
  • default build creates devices: 'libggml-base.so' and 'libggml-cpu.so' - probably need to set up additional requirements for the other backends.
  • if you need additional backends: documentation on each backend includes build instructions
• looking at main.cpp for llama-simple - a CLI program to continue with a given prompt, specified on the command line. command line: ./llama-simple -m model.gguf [-n n_predict] [-ngl n_gpu_layers] {prompt-text}

MoserMichael

This project moved to https://github.com/MoserMichael/tips_on_using_google_ai_mode

MoserMichael

Learning about the concept

Wikipedia on Meditation

The objectives of mediation

• Reach a "mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state".
• other objectives:
  • "improve focus by decreasing self-referential chatter"
  • minimize "mind-wandering (aka spontaneous drift, shift of attention to 'something personal')
• minimize rumination (repetitive thought pattern where the mind becomes "stuck" on negative content) and