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ChatGPT Plugins

ChatGPT plugins are wild. Basically, you can extend ChatGPT with sensors and actuators; plugins that allow ChatGPT to search and scrape the web, to call APIs to fetch and even update traditional IT systems like flight reservation systems, and to even execute code generated by the LLM. This is impressive

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Money Basics for People With Not Much

I recently read I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi and enjoyed it a lot. It reinforced some ideas I have about how to build wealth, for someone with a little money, but not much time, interest or expertise in money. What follows are some notes I

Generalist Agents and You

A month or so ago, Deepmind published a paper demonstrating success in training a 'Generalist' agent that they call Gato, which is a single neural network that can perform many tasks - including robotic joint manipulation tasks, playing video games, captioning images and so on. Should you be afraid that

#PyTorch Tensor Basics in 5 Minutes

Writing Python code to express equations and crunch numbers is the foundation of many hot IT industry applications, including machine learning, data science and analytics. If you're new to the ecosystem, as I am, you might be overwhelmed with the slew of libraries and approached one can take to get

@ShaanVP's Framework Tips

I'm not an entrepreneur, but I do love listening to the My First Million [https://www.mfmpod.com/] podcast. In the most recent episode, ShaanVP [https://twitter.com/ShaanVP] describes some framework tips he uses to succeed. Here's a summary: On task lists: Todo lists are sub-optimal, instead try “One

Reflections on Log4J Security Issues

The Java log4j 2 library is used in applications and appliances around the world to - funnily enough - log information that the application might want to record. Typically, that will mean writing a line to a log on the local filesystem with data about what a user did, or

Starting a Blog

I decided to start a blog, mostly to force myself to force myself to think clearly about the topics I am interested in. Stay tuned!

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