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learning queuing theory basics

Bikey Bonn Kleiford Seranilla - Queuing Theory

Liz Thompson - Queueing theory (simple)

SREcon24 Americas - System Performance and Queuing Theory - Concepts and Application

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Learning about the concept

Wikipedia on Meditation

The objectives of mediation

• Reach a "mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state".
• other objectives:
  • "improve focus by decreasing self-referential chatter"
  • minimize "mind-wandering (aka spontaneous drift, shift of attention to 'something personal')
• minimize rumination (repetitive thought pattern where the mind becomes "stuck" on negative content) and

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# script for converting LLM saved talks from html to markdown.

# setup:
# 
# Installation:
#
#    python3 -m venv .venv
#    source .venv/bin/activate
#    pip3 install html-to-markdown
#

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Learning about huggingface (and other stuff)

• the site: https://huggingface.co/
• at first the account is free, once you start using their GPU's you need a paid account
• main page ui
  • model hub : lots of trained open source models (sorted by trending)
  • datasets : open source datasets!!!
  • spaces - hosted apps on hugging space
• community (blogs/posts/daily papers)

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cooking up stuff

In memory of my dear mother, Vera. You taught me to be positive and be ready to learn from anyone. And your cooking was the best...

Maybe a bit rare to see cooking advice in a github gist, nevertheless - let's go! (I prefer recipes that do not require a lot of work)

What I like about cooking a thing repeatedly:

• you develop an intuition for time, how long does it take for a pancake to be ready before turning? How long does it take for a soup to be ready for consumption?
• Also: experimentation with the recipes: sometimes an ingredient isn't handy, can you substitute it with something else? Try variations of spices? - there is room for experimentation, to some degree - and you can adopt what works. Cooking is not a totally fixed process, there is some room for variation...
• Time passes quickly, if you do something with your own hands that has a purpose & makes sense. Cooking is an 'easy entry' into this kind of activity.

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course on visual programming with Scratch

The aim here is to come up with a methodology/course of teaching the stuff, so the intended audience are teachers/parents who want to teach this stuff.

Scratch

A general intro to Scratch

• at the bottom of the page there is a dropdown for choosing your language (very important to some people)

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Why study prompting? LLM systems have a training process. Prompting is not based on magical thinking, they try to use peculiarities of the training process. For example 'lets think step by step' was/is the prefix for many training example, so the presence of these words in the prompt appeared be triggering chain-of-thought reasoning, at some stage. see wiki

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link to course

by Isa Fulford - she also wrote OpenAI cookbook and Andrew Ng

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#!/bin/bash

GITHUB_USER_NAME=$1

if [[ "x${GITHUB_USER_NAME}" == "x" ]]; then
    cat <<EOF
Usage: $0 <github-user-name>"

Check out all gists or given github user - under the current directory.

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learning about Charlie Chaplin

Chaplin managed to create cinema as an form of art! So here I am taking some notes, as I study his work.

Nowadays we have many of his his movies on youtube (as the copyright is expiring, no matter what - when I was a kid any appearance of Chaplin on TV was an event!).

Movies are compressed representation (as compared to books). They use additional visual/audio clues to tell a story - and to create a different kind of experience. Also the dynamics of movie scripts are quite different as compared to storytelling in a book. Someone had to figure out what works and what does not, and that guy was Chaplin (who did not have a formal education in any of these areas...)

• His early work are two-reel movies. In many of them he is fighting a big bully adversary.
• This doesn't work will full length feature movies: starting with 'The Kid', and later in all his movies in 'United Artist' - the adversary is something bigger, like poverty in 'the Kid', the system in 'Modern Times', fa

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Job hunting tips

/More Eitzes from me, 'Eitzes is billik' - advice comes cheap.../

This gist is my experience. In general: do not trust such advice. Somehow the market tends to change every few years, always be aware of that possibility and be on the look-out.

Kinds of companies to work for

You can work for a big established company or for a startup. With more advanced companies you have a less stressed environment / and a more steady job, kind of.