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  1. Comment on Artificial intelligence is a familiar-looking monster – Large language models have much older cousins in markets and bureaucracies in ~humanities

  2. Comment on Good, quality YouTube channels? in ~tech

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    PBS space time is my favourite YouTube channel of all time: https://youtube.com/@pbsspacetime It’s hosted by an expert in the field who has an amazing voice and wonderful sense of humour, has...

    PBS space time is my favourite YouTube channel of all time:
    https://youtube.com/@pbsspacetime

    It’s hosted by an expert in the field who has an amazing voice and wonderful sense of humour, has amazing visuals, covers deep and fascinating topics about physics, space, the universe, consciousness , reality, and more, all in a manner that is both accurate and evidence based, as well as accessible to a broad audience.

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  3. Comment on Photosynthesis, key to life on Earth, starts with a single photon in ~science

  4. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I’ve been exploring building applications that have large language models and vector databases at the core, making use of the open source framework langchain. In particular I’m focused on Q&A...

    I’ve been exploring building applications that have large language models and vector databases at the core, making use of the open source framework langchain. In particular I’m focused on Q&A systems over a knowledge base, with exploring APIs-as-agent-tools up next, followed by integrating with a analytical data store to do nature language driven data analytics.

  5. Comment on I want to learn more about linux in ~comp

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    I’d suggest getting setup and comfortable with docker on your local machine. This would then let you run Linux containers of all sorts of flavours, which you can then experiment with. This way you...

    I’d suggest getting setup and comfortable with docker on your local machine. This would then let you run Linux containers of all sorts of flavours, which you can then experiment with. This way you can explore the differences between debian, alpine, and centos based distros, try out different packages, explore group and user management, etc; and the nice thing about docker is of you screw everything up, just kill the container and start fresh!

    Then you can explore building Dockerfiles that customise a setup that you find you like.

    Lastly, ChatGPT is a fantastic tutor for systems related learning; you can effectively describe your learning goals and ask it to construct a learning pathway and then facilitate moving along that pathway.

    Good luck!

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