Sun, Sep 15, 2024

Weekly Notes and Discoveries | S Anand

"Invest in things that don't change." Jeff Bezos. Like faster delivery, SQL, web platform. #future

Medical cost in Singapore (for insurance coverage) - via Kumar
- Root canal at clinic: $1,300
- Crown replacement at clinic: $1,300
- Periodontist (gums) at hospital: $2,500

OAuth from First Principles is a SIMPLE explanation of OAuth. Conclusion: "You probably shouldn't implement your own OAuth client."

Alphaxiv is Arxiv.org but with author comments and chat #github

The Impact of AI on Computer Science Education: #ai-coding #code-agents
- Eric Klopfer divided his undergrad CS class into three groups and gave them a Fortran task.
- One used ChatGPT. Another, Meta's Code Llama LLM. Third, only use Google.
- ChatGPT group was faster than Code Llama was faster than Google
- When tested on the approach, the ChatGPT remembered nothing. Half the Code Llama group passed. The Google group passed fully

Server-side implementation of an OAuth2 client is too complex. Best to delegate this to Auth0

Via Pratap Vardhan: #code-agents #github
- At Khan Academy, every developer working on Khanmigo has cursor. Everyone who's contributed to a Khan Academy GitHub repo has GitHub Copilot.
- I stopped using Google + StackOverflow 2 years ago. I use ChatGPT, Copilot, etc. For humans, I ask Reddit.
- Excited by async agents. Things that do my job while I sleep.
  - Zapier notifications.
  - Monitor what happens. Put it into a flow diagram and alert me.
  - Every month, did my broker trade? Did my bank transaction fail? Did I pay my electricity bill?
  - Every time you delegate, use an agent instead.
  - Read my RSS feeds.
  - Read my browser history and suggest interests.
- Plan a session in Bain, BCG, etc. on Artifacts.
- Explore sparse embeddings. More effective. ColiPali, ColBERT

Hume provides a voice-to-voice model (EVI 2) that handles emotions at 7 cents/minute. #speech-to-text #voice-cloning

OpenArt workflows has image generation workflows #ai-art #image-generation

Pixtral seems quite good at OCR #document-conversion #future #speech-to-text

LLM coding #ai-coding #code-agents #future #llm-ops
- Makes you more ambitious
- Lets you code without stress. (Just pass it the error and have it fix it. Or find another approach)
- Is unlimited. You can run dozens of agents in parallel

Simon Willison's crowdsourced list of prompt engineering hacks #future #prompt-engineering