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Schema of Mac OSX's AddressBook SQLite database for storing contacts

December 24, 2024 • mac | sqlite | contacts | addressbook

Mac OSX stores your local contacts data in ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/.

AI Radiology Tools Show Minimal Time Savings

October 11, 2024 • ai | utility | healthcare | radiology | copilot

How much time do radiologists save from using AI assistants?

How to Find Unallocated Nodes on Slurm

August 1, 2024 • slurm | linux

How to determine what parameters to set your SRUN / SBATCH command to get your jobs immediately allocated

Brief Einsum Tutorial

July 26, 2024 • torch | numpy | einsum | math | linear algebra

What is np.einsum / torch.einsum?

Helpful PDB Commands

June 17, 2024 • python | debugging

A list of helpful pdb commands for debugging Python programs

Torch - Get device across CPU / GPU / MPS

June 15, 2024 • python | torch | mps | cuda | ml

Quick one-liner for running Torch on your Mac

Python script to remove image backgrounds for free

June 15, 2024 • python | huggingface | transformers | images | background removal

Using the SOTA briaai/RMBG-1.4 model

AI Tool Review - Langflow

June 14, 2024 • llms | ai | ml | langflow | rag | python | ai tool review

How to use the open source project Langflow to build RAG pipelines in a drag-and-drop no-code interface

AI Tool Review - Langfuse + LiteLLM

How to use the open source projects Langfuse and LiteLLM to automatically log your LLM calls across 100+ providers under a single interface

Transformer Math (Part 1) - Counting Model Parameters

How many parameters are in a HuggingFace model? A case study with GPT2

AI Tool Review - LM-Format-Enforcer for controlling LLM outputs

How to use LM Format Enforcer to guarantee your LLM outputs valid JSON

How to properly take screenshots with Playwright and Selenium

January 2, 2024 • websites | selenium | playwright | google chrome

A trick for capturing <select> menu popups that won't normally get included.

How to view (x,y) coordinates in Chrome Debugger

January 2, 2024 • websites | google chrome | debugging

Get the (x,y) coordinates of arbitrary points on a webpage

AI Tool Review - ChromaDB as a local vector database for RAG

Some code snippets / tips for using ChromaDB

AI Tool Review - Outlines library for controlling LLM outputs

A quick tutorial on how to use Outlines to guarantee your LLM outputs valid JSON

AI Tool Review - Microsoft LIDA for data exploration

Trying out LIDA, an LLM-based data exploration tool from Microsoft Research

Diffusion Models from Scratch

July 1, 2023 • diffusion models | machine learning | python | tutorial

Beginner's tutorial on how diffusion models work, with Python code + mathematical derivations and explanations

Python Argparse Cheatsheet

June 16, 2023 • python | cli | argparse

Basic argparse template for Python 3

Productivity Tips for Jupyter Notebook

June 15, 2023 • jupyter | python | vscode

How to be more productive using Jupyter notebook

Publish Python Package on PyPI with Poetry

April 27, 2023 • python | poetry | packaging

How to package a Python library using Poetry and publish it on PyPI.