Sun, Sep 29, 2024

Weekly Notes and Discoveries | S Anand

Pyodide can access the DOM and JavaScript in the browser #html

Jupyter Lite lets you run Jupyter notebooks in the browser

AVIFs is about 10X better than GIFs. I tried creating one via EZGIF AVIF Maker and the .avifs file created was 15X smaller! #image-generation ffmpeg -i input.gif -c:v libaom-av1 -crf 30 -b:v 0 -cpu-used 4 -tiles -an output.avif

Claude 3.5 thinks .opus is the best format to compress audio. It used ffmpeg -i audio.wav -c:a libopus -b:a 16k -application voip -vbr on -compression_level 10 audio.opus

API coding best practices Source via Simon Willison: #best-practices #github #prompt-engineering
- Always add screenshots to the Readme. They never break.
- Always add every example. Human think in examples.
- Avoid defaults and be explicit unless 99% of the usage is with the default.
- Make the feedback loops incredibly fast.
- Make deprecations easy for users to deal with.
- Keep objects immutable.

When you paste HTML into Excel, it automatically changes the font of the cell to match the content in the HTML! #html

Aptos is the new default font in Office - replacing Calibri.

PyMuPDF4LLM can convert PDFs to Markdown. It handles tables, too. #document-conversion #llm-ops #markdown
- 04 Oct 2024. PDF-Extract-Kit does PDF layout, formula, table, and OCR extraction using various models.
- 04 Oct 2024. llmsherpa extracts PDF layout, tables, not OCR

When evaluating feasibility of technology with LLMs always ask for multiple options and pick from those. Simon Willison #future #llm-ops

Gemini supports audio natively

Google Vertex AI has an OpenAI compatible API but it works only for some models. Anthropic and Gemini are not compatible. #gpu

Anthropic's Introducing Contextual Retrieval says: #embeddings
- Use BM25 in addition to embeddings to match rare terms (e.g. identifiers)
- Add a context to each chunk's metadata (generate it with a cheap LLM) and pass it to the summarizing LLM
- Reranking helps with cost AND accuracy. Use Cohere or Voyage

Sentient lets you control the browser via Python in natural language #prompt-engineering #python #speech-to-text