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PostgreSQL is Enough

• Simplify: move code into database functions
• Just Use Postgres for Everything
• PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database
• Postgres is eating the database world
• Hacker News discussion

Background and Cron Jobs

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Never touch your local /etc/hosts file in OS X again

To setup your computer to work with *.test domains, e.g. project.test, awesome.test and so on, without having to add to your hosts file each time.

Requirements

• Homebrew
• Mountain Lion -> High Sierra

Install

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#!/usr/bin/env python3

import zipfile
import sys
import re
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

namespaces = {
  'a': 'http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main',
  'r': 'http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships',

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Prerequisites

• API key for OpenAI.
• API key for Picovoice
• API key for ElevenLabs
• mpg123 installed
• node 18+

Directions

• git clone https://gist.github.com/ericlewis/ccd3f0b7a17fcbe2473121a473082c8f
• edit .env with your keys

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#r "nuget:Microsoft.ML"
#r "nuget:Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime"
#r "nuget:Microsoft.ML.OnnxTransformer"
#r "nuget:Microsoft.ML.ImageAnalytics"
#r "nuget:System.Drawing.Common"

open System.IO
open System.Drawing
open Microsoft.ML
open Microsoft.ML.Data

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Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts and experience preferred (super rare at this point).

My own notes from a few months back.

Background

• Survey of LLMS
• Self-attention and transformer networks

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Using dune-release to release OCaml packages

Originally written 2020-05-16

dune-release is a good improvement over the old opam-publish, but releasing software is still clearly not a solved problem, and I find it hard to remember the exact steps involved in releasing an opam package, especially if some time has passed since the last release. This note is an attempt at having a place

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# Powershell script to export Powerpoint Presentations to pdf using the Powerpoint COM API
# Based on a VB script with the same purpose
# http://superuser.com/questions/641471/how-can-i-automatically-convert-powerpoint-to-pdf


function Export-Presentation($inputFile)
{
	# Load Powerpoint Interop Assembly
	[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialname("Microsoft.Office.Interop.Powerpoint") > $null
	[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialname("Office") > $null

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Purpose

Bootstrap knowledge of LLMs ASAP. With a bias/focus to GPT.

Avoid being a link dump. Try to provide only valuable well tuned information.

Prelude

Neural network links before starting with transformers.

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## Put this Makefle in your project directory---i.e., the directory
## containing the paper you are writing. Assuming you are using the
## rest of the toolchain here, you can use it to create .html, .tex,
## and .pdf output files (complete with bibliography, if present) from
## your markdown file. 
## -	Using `make` without arguments will generate html, tex, and pdf 
## 	output files from all of the files with the designated markdown
##	extension. The default is `.md` but you can change this. 
## -	You can specify an output format with `make tex`, `make pdf` or 
## - 	`make html`.