Another Bluesky guide with "the tips & tricks that I often give to friends when I send them an invite code", including a brief but informative history lesson.Of particular interest to me in early November 2024:"they promise they won’t “enshittify” the service in future... [are] explicitly building the network to be “billionaire-…

An interesting starterguide to Bluesky, written when it was "still in beta... though the application has recently passed 1 million downloads". Some interesting points:culture: "early adopters tended to be people from marginalized communities who were fleeing outright persecution" on other platforms; they all got invite codes &q;…

"now you can control how ChatGPT responds in every chat by using custom instructions" - this quick runthrough of what they are, how to enable them, and some examples only scratches the surface.When using custom instructions you answer two questions:tell ChatGPT more about youtell ChatGPT how you want it to respondThe two answers should p…

A guide to the useful things one can do with LLMs.To write stuff: nothing comes "even close to GPT-4... access at Bing for free or ... subscription to ChatGPT... GPT-3.5 also good and much faster". Some tips: "Getting good writing out of ChatGPT takes some practice"Paste in your text and ask ChatGPT to improve it, suggest &q;…

"build a chatbot capable of extracting any kind of information from a set of documents ... your own Document Assistant from scratch, using GPT-3 and Langchain"Good explainer of using embeddings to get around token limits "using LangChain, which is an open-source library designed to simplify the utilization of LLMs with Chain of Thou…

"leverage ChatGPT to answer natural language questions on a variety of text repositories... [via a ]combination of embeddings, vector search, and prompt engineering...Embeddings are mathematical representations of words, phrases, or even entire documents as vectors ... sequences [with] similar meaning are “close together” in a high-dimensiona…

"“Document Search Chatbot” ... field common questions (FAQ’s) based on the content of several documents.... Azure Search to extract and rank key highlights from a set of text documents based on a user query. This user query and Azure Search results are then passed to OpenAI to be interpreted and formatted into a chat based response..."Wh…

How to set up BLOOM on your own cloud."BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual Language Model:free transformer-based language model created by 1000 researcherstrained on about 1,6 TB pre-processed multilingual text.biggest BLOOM model in parameters is 176B = ~GPT-3 scalesmaller models available: 7b, 3b, 1b7Needs 360 GB of RAM ,…

"how you can run state-of-the-art large language models on your local computer" using two models which are "comparable or even outperform GPT [but can] run on your local computer... released under a non-commercial license":"dalai library" - allows us to run LLaMA & Alpaca, provides an API"LLaMA: foundational …

" a step-by-step guide for building a document Q&A chatbot in an efficient way with llama-index and GPT API... ask the bot in natural language about your own documents/data... [see it] retrieving info from the documents and generating a response [1]... customer support, synthesizing user research, your personal knowledge management"K…

"Welcome To Mastodon Welcome to Mastodon, and The Fediverse! This is a living document with some tips and Frequently Asked Questions about Mastodon and the Fediverse..."Pretty complete-looking

once a fringe phenomenon ... gone mainstream... trying to attach themselves to other activist causes ... poses a potential domestic terror threat... Last week ... avowed QAnon supporter ... won a Republican primary ... Mr. Trump called her a “future Republican star.”... here are some basic things you should know...umbrella term ... conspiracy…

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for most any sophisticated research project, you need additional sites at your disposal — along with a lot of creativity... This guide will walk through detailed strategies to use reverse image search ... Google reverse image search isn’t very good ... the undisputed leader ... Yandex... runners-up Bing and Google ... Yandex's strengths l…

You can create whatever lists you want, although for GTD, I recommend starting out with something along these lines: New (explained below), Work, Personal, Household, Reference, Someday... The New folder is what GTD would typically call the Inbox... Asana already gives you a different space called Inbox, which shows all activity on tasks assigned …

Deactivating your account will ... make your profile invisible. All your messages will still be visible, but you won’t be able to use Facebook’s website to message users. For that, you’ll need to use the Facebook Messenger app.... When you delete your Facebook account, you’ll lose your friend list, your wall, posts, and access to your current Fac…

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Wikipedia’s list of cognitive biases ... is a bit of a tangled mess... groups 175 biases into vague categories (decision-making biases, social biases, memory errors, etc) that don’t really feel mutually exclusive to me, and then lists them alphabetically... a simpler, clearer organizing structure to hang these biases off of... biases help us addr…

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"If you're interested in learning more about the technical operation of bitcoin, or if you're building the next great bitcoin killer­app or business, you will find this book essential reading." Based on the ToC, covers blockchains and the rest. Readable online for free.

Great overview of product design and development documentation in a world of agile development: "Documentation is instrumental for concepting, designing, creating and measuring the performance of products. But ... there’s nothing about a thick stack of paperwork which resembles the experience of your real product. ... thick deliverables created …

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great visual presentation on different Google+ sharing options