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import os
import sys
import openai
import os.path

from dotenv import load_dotenv
from pydub import AudioSegment

load_dotenv()
openai.api_key = os.getenv('OPENAI_API_KEY')

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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 of models in prod eagerly sought.

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models

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Lecture 1: Introduction to Research — [📝Lecture Notebooks] [▶️Video]
Lecture 2: Introduction to Python — [📝Lecture Notebooks] [▶️Video]
Lecture 3: Introduction to NumPy — [📝Lecture Notebooks] [▶️Video]
Lecture 4: Introduction to pandas — [📝Lecture Notebooks] [▶️Video]
Lecture 5: Plotting Data — [📝Lecture Notebooks] [[▶️Vide

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""" Use Apple's Vision Framework via PyObjC to detect text in images """

import pathlib

import Quartz
import Vision
from Cocoa import NSURL
from Foundation import NSDictionary
# needed to capture system-level stderr
from wurlitzer import pipes

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Using Python 3 + Google Cloud Vision API's OCR to extract text from photos and scanned documents

Just a quickie test in Python 3 (using Requests) to see if Google Cloud Vision can be used to effectively OCR a scanned data table and preserve its structure, in the way that products such as ABBYY FineReader can OCR an image and provide Excel-ready output.

The short answer: No. While Cloud Vision provides bounding polygon coordinates in its output, it doesn't provide it at the word or region level, which would be needed to then calculate the data delimiters.

On the other hand, the OCR quality is pretty good, if you just need to identify text anywhere in an image, without regards to its physical coordinates. I've included two examples:

####### 1. A low-resolution photo of road signs

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Extracting Emoji From Slack!

Slack doesn't provide an easy way to extract custom emoji from a team. (Especially teams with thousands of custom emoji) This Gist walks you through a relatively simple approach to get your emoji out.

If you're an admin of your own team, you can get the list of emoji directly using this API: https://api.slack.com/methods/emoji.list. Once you have it, skip to Step 3

HOWEVER! This gist is intended for people who don't have admin access, nor access tokens for using that list.

Follow along...

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short url: caseywatts.com/selfpublish

my book is out! an applied psychology / self-help book targeted at developers: Debugging Your Brain

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Markdown --> PDF (as a booklet!)

Markdown --> EPUB and MOBI

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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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Building a new RStudio Server AMI

The steps below can be followed to create a new AMI for use with Amazon EC2 instances that includes the latest versions of R, RStudio, and RStudio Server. The idea is inspired by the work of Louis Aslett, who creates and hosts his own public AMIs for RStudio. My own goal was to create an AMI with RStudio v1.0.0 or higher, such that I could use the recent R Notebooks feature. However, the instructions should generally apply for whenever you might be impatient accessing the latest version of R-related software on AWS (via an interactive browser interface...).

Getting started

1. Create a new EC2 instance with the latest Ubuntu AMI (should be fine to do with Spot); based on Louis Aslett's AMI, I opted to include a general purpose SSD EBS volume with 10GB of storage space
2. SSH into the instance

Downloading/installing RStudio Server

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# Add these two gems
gem 'ice_cube',                     '0.9.3'
gem 'squeel',                       '1.0.16'