Lawrence Wu: TIL – til

Prompt Generation & Meta-Prompting

prompt

llms

meta

OpenAI added a system prompt generate button that lets you generate prompts, functions and schemas from just describing the task.

Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte & Yamanaka Factors

aging

exercise

I was watching one of the videos from the All-In Summit 2024:

Whisper large-v3-turbo

whisper

llm

asr

OpenAI released a new version of their Whisper model caled large-v3-turbo. There is already ggml versions available here.

Github Copilot Workspace

github

agent

I was granted access to Github Copilot Workspace. It’s Github’s AI Coding Assistant built into Github.com where you can go from Github Issue to a Pull Request. I tried it…

Turn on Rich Jupyter diff’s in Github

github

jupyter

Github.com has different features hidden behind a “Feature Preview” menu. You can get there by clicking your profile and go to “Feature Preview.”

Moshi - Real-Time Voice Chatbot

llm

voice

How to configure Apple Focus to help minimize distractions

apple

tool

Focus modes on Apple devices (iOS and MacOS) are useful. You can configure these to allow notifications from certain people and/or apps when the focus mode is on (e.g. allow…

History of Python HTTP Clients

python

Learned about the history of Python HTTP clients: urllib to Requests to now httpx and aiohttp from this article by SpeakEasy.

alphaXiv

tool

This is a neat project: https://www.alphaxiv.org/

OpenAI Releases o1-preview

llm

reasoning

This model was trained on chain-of-thought chains. These were not human annotations but were LLM-generated. The CoT chains ultimately used for training were the ones which…

Learn-to-Rank and Learning with ChatGPT

learning

I recently learned about algorithms called Learn-to-Rank (LTR) from a talk that Doug Turnbell gave (he works at Reddit). I actually didn’t know they existed. “LTR models are…

Amphetamine/Caffeine Replacement

utility

Mac OSX Applications like Caffeine and now Amphetamine are simple apps that cause them not to go to sleep.

great-tables Python package

python

Repo from posit to create beautiful tables in Python: https://github.com/posit-dev/great-tables. Basically the Python version of R’s https://github.com/rstudio/gt. I love…

CogVideoX-5B aka Open source Sora

llm

agent

video

It’s neat how when OpenAI or another model provider creates a new model (e.g. text-to-video like Sora), the open source community gets to work and produces an open source…

RunnablePassthrough.assign

llm

agent

langgraph

I’m learning more about LangGraph and I didn’t know what RunnablePassthrough.assign was doing (I’ve seen this in some of the LangGraph tutorials). This page explains it…

WebVoyager implemented in LangGraph

llm

agent

langgraph

Really cool agent that can navigate the web. It uses Playwright to take screenshots, annotates those screenshot images with bounding boxes of parts of the webpage that are…

Best Month to Get a Flu Shot

data

flu

The best month to get a flu shot is October. This is based on a natural experiment of 800,000 kids across 7 flu seasons in America.

ColiPali: Efficient Document Retrieval with Vision Language Models

llm

vision

Learned about ColiPali via Twitter/X.

LlamaCoder

llm

agent

LlamaCoder is an AI agent that takes natural language and generates a React app. It’s billed as an “open source version of Claude Artifacts.” The Github repo is here.

Excalidraw

tools

I didn’t realize Excalidraw was open source. Heard about it a year ago from a presentation.

VS Code & Port Forwarding

IDE

port forwarding

Today I ran into this issue where I wasn’t able to call some Azure Functions I was developing locally. When Remote SSH’ing into a VM using VS Code, if you start a webserver…

Positron IDE from Posit

software

Today I learned, Posit (use to be RStudio) is working on a new data science IDE that looks like RStudio built on the same underlying code as VS Code: https://github.com/posit…

Python Variable Type Hints

python

Today I learned you can use in-line type hints. Below you are specifying that the object react_prompt is of type PromptTemplate.

Deploying langfuse to Azure

azure

langfuse

I learned today how to deploy langfuse to Azure. langfuse is essentially an open source version of langsmith. I just used this template to deploy langfuse and all of it’s…

How to Create Slides in Code with Quarto & Revealjs

quarto

revealjs

slides

I learned today how to create slides programatically using Quarto & revealjs. Quarto’s documentation is wonderful and their Revealjs documentation is no different.

Azure AI Prompts

prompts

llm

Microsoft’s Azure has some good examples of prompts. In the Azure AI Studio, in the Chat Playground, if you create a chat application and then click the Prompt Flow button…

Notes from Benjamin Clavie’s RAG talk

rag

llm

Hamel Hussain finished hosting an LLM conference. All of the talks are listed here. One of the best talks was from Benjamin Clavie. I first heard about him because he’s the…

JJ Allaire’s Inspect Framework for LLM Evals

evals

llm

Hamel Hussain finished hosting an LLM conference. All of the talks are listed here. One of the talks was from JJ Allaire, the creator of RStudio. I owe RStudio and all of…

Simon Willison’s CLI tools

cli

llm

Hamel Hussain finished hosting an LLM conference. All of the talks are listed here. One of the talks was from Simon Willison. He spoke about his llm tool that integrates…

How to create a TIL with Quarto

quarto

Finally got around to creating a TIL. Was inspired by the prolific Simon Willison’s TIL.