Bengaluru

Events Calendar at Bangalore International Centre. BIC is in Domlur.

Dinner at what is becoming a favourite restaurant of S - Khmer Kitchen

Met the “BBIT” twitter GC at the Tipsy Bull in Indiaranagar on Friday.

Attended “Sports day” at kids’ school on Saturday.

Best of Twitter

“Build a company, not a product.” – sama

“… had not built on this success, only triumphed & walked away.” – elst

An impressive log of learning about AI #learning where I found out about: - remnote “Create flashcards in your notes that resurface at the best time for retention, using evidence-backed memory techniques.”

Learning

Have to finish my Generative AI with Large Language Models Coursera course. Recommending that

LLM

Text-rich Image Understanding

I asked and I was suggested to look at LLaVAR “Enhanced Visual Instruction Tuning for Text-rich Image Understanding”.

LLaVAR: The LLaVA model that can Read texts within images.

Zhang, Yanzhe, Ruiyi Zhang, Jiuxiang Gu, Yufan Zhou, Nedim Lipka, Diyi Yang, and Tong Sun. “LLaVAR: Enhanced visual instruction tuning for text-rich image understanding,” 2023. https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17107.

The github page of the project has good instructions on how to set up the local environment as well as running training, evaluation steps. The model weights are available on huggingface.

LoRA (Low Rank Adaptation)

 LoRA is among the most widely used and effective techniques for efficiently training custom LLMs. For those interested in open-source LLMs, it’s an essential technique worth familiarizing oneself with.

This is a good introduction: Practical Tips for Finetuning LLMs Using LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation)

stas00/ml-engineering: Machine Learning Engineering Guides and Tools

[2311.10770] Exponentially Faster Language Modelling Belcak, Peter, and Roger Wattenhofer. “Exponentially faster language modelling,” 2023. https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10770.

okay this is huge almost generational work imo – bighungrypigeon

Technology

Really cool demo of Ultorg, “a user interface for relational databases” based on the paper - Bakke, Eirik, and David R Karger. “Expressive query construction through direct manipulation of nested relational results,” 2016. http://people.csail.mit.edu/ebakke/research/sieuferd\_sigmod2016.pdf. by Eirik Bakke, google scholar citations.

Programming

• nektos/act: Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀
• Sqids (formerly Hashids) · Generate Short IDs from Numbers

PHP

PHP continues to impress focus on developer productivity and speed of bootstrapping.

I installed Laravel, then Laravel Jetstream, and then Laravel Spark. After ~2 minutes of configuring, I have a dashboard, a fully working Stripe integration with users, teams, 2FA, and API auth. – Arvid Kahl

From the same thread – Find Bugs Without Writing Tests with PHPStan (static analysis tool for PHP)

And the best part is: all you need to get started with PHP development is Laravel Herd – Marcel

Laravel Herd

Laravel Herd One click PHP development environment. It is native macOS application. - Herd uses static binaries for PHP, nginx, and dnsmasq - Herd comes with PHP 7.4 - 8.3, and you can switch between any of these versions in seconds. Herd even lets you pin sites to specific PHP versions. Herd will automatically keep all of your PHP installations up to date. Testing the features of the latest PHP versions has never been easier. - Herd includes binaries for Composer, the Laravel installer, and Expose, making them available to your CLI automatically.

Advertised software on Herd:

• The code runner for PHP 💫 - Tinkerwell
• DBngin | All-in-One Database Version Management Tool
• Learn Laravel | Laracasts
• Helo – local email testing.

Once you have installed Herd, you can start serving sites. By default, Herd will serve sites from the ~/Herd directory.

Setup DNSMasq on MacOS #dnsmasq

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.

Site Notes

Added My favorite technical blogs feeds to btnews (Aug 2024: decommissioned since the instance of running of memory often)

Added new pages pages to site:

• my-websites
• RAG
• chatbot
• Trees to Plant – collecting information about the plants I’d like to plant at the farm. See also Krishimela medician plants