Welcome to part 1 of the course! My name is Dirk van Meerveld and I will be your host and guide for this series in which we will be exploring all the new features of the OpenAI APIs and what we can do with them. To get started, we’re going to be looking at the … Read more
The future is bright. Yet, negativity bias is a well-documented phenomenon in cognitive science: As a result, third-party input data flowing into your brain is biased towards negativity. From LLM training, we know what happens with input data biases – they become output biases ingrained in the neural nets. But any bias is dangerous: “What gets … Read more
Question ⚡ Problem Formulation: If you’re a coder writing articles on WordPress, you often have to make selected text inline_code. The standard approach is to select the text, click the small “v” symbol to expand the formatting options, and choose “Inline code” from the dropdown menu. But this is cumbersome if you have large amounts … Read more
BlockAGI is an open-source research agent inspired by AutoGPT and designed for self-hosting. You can use it for iterative, domain-specific research. Initially, they focused on cryptocurrency (that’s where the name part Block comes from). But the project has grown beyond that and is applicable to many fields because it can generate detailed narrative reports, for … Read more
First, we know very little about Q* or Q Star, and the little we know (publicly) draws from multiple sources and involves a lot of speculation, so take everything in this article with a grain of salt. With this disclaimer out of the way, let’s dive right in: Where Does the Name Q* (Q-Star) Come … Read more
The argparse module in Python is designed for writing user-friendly command-line interfaces. It allows the programmer to define the expected arguments, helping the program to automatically generate help and usage messages and to issue errors when users give the program invalid arguments. For example, a programmer might use argparse to create a script for resizing … Read more
The traditional investment advice, as given by Jessica from DataTrek Research, may suit a cautious, long-term investor. Here’s the traditionalist’s pitch for a sound and safe investment strategy: Prioritize low-risk, diversified investments like ETFs tracking major indices, avoid speculative options and volatile cryptocurrencies, focus on steady long-term growth through dollar-cost averaging, $50 per month for … Read more
This article aims to compare the reverse prompting capabilities of GPT-4V versus Midjourney. As a running example, we’ll use pics of a beautiful mansion in San Francisco. As a fun fact, sources like this and this say this is indeed Sam Altman’s house. Altman’s Mansion 🔗 Original image. First, I passed this image into ChatGPT … Read more
A SyntaxError: Unexpected Token ‘ ‘ in Python typically occurs when the Python interpreter encounters a piece of code that has an unexpected space character in a place where Python doesn’t expect it. Python’s “unexpected token ‘ ‘” error typically results from mistakes in your code’s structure or incorrect use of parentheses, braces, or other … Read more
The purpose of the graph is to visually represent and compare the historical performance of Bitcoin with other major cryptocurrencies since their inception, particularly focusing on how these cryptocurrencies have performed relative to Bitcoin from the year they entered the top five in market capitalization. By adjusting the starting values of each cryptocurrency to align … Read more
As I strolled down memory lane today, my mind wandered back to my university days. Those were times of sitting on crowded lecture hall floors, straining to follow along as professors delved into complex theoretical computer science, for instance. Within minutes, many of us were lost in a sea of jargon, our understanding dwindling with … Read more
Problem Formulation In Python, the “TypeError: string indices must be integers” error typically occurs when a string type object is accessed with non-integer indices. This error often arises in situations involving data structures like lists and dictionaries. Understanding the Error & Code Example This error signifies that the code attempts to index a string using … Read more