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Problem Formulation I encountered a significant delay in the response times on OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo API as compared to the ChatGPT — and I’m not alone with this (source). The latency is particularly noticeable when using certain accounts, with the delay making the API almost unusable for real-time applications. Solution Idea: Experiment with Difference User … Read more
Example 1 – “Find Bug in Code Screenshot” In the following ChatGPT interaction, I tried pasting an image of a code snippet with a bug. Note that I didn’t paste the code, only the screenshot of the code as an image! I also gave it the prompt “Find the bug!“. First, it does fix the … Read more
In your macOS Terminal app type the name of the editor (e.g., nano) followed by a space and the filename to open. For example, run the following command to open my_file.txt in your folder My_Folder using the following command: Alternatively, you can also run open my_file.txt to open the app associated with the file type … Read more
Warren Buffett emphasizes building a business with a strong “moat,” or barrier to entry, likening it to an economic castle. For coding businesses, increasing this barrier involves enhancing skills, investing more money in high-ROI activities, and dedicating focused time. This approach, as Buffett suggests, makes a business more robust and profitable. I just watched the … Read more
🧑💻 A Note on the Tech Stack: This is my recent project where I used OpenAI API to create two personas playing the role of AI professors, Alice and Bob, that are experts in philosophy and ethics. Then I let the two large language models (LLMs) debate against each other and recorded the debate. I … Read more
Llama 2 is the next generation of our open-source large language model. It is available for free for research and commercial use. Inside the Llama 2 model, you’ll find pretrained and fine-tuned language models like Llama Chat and Code Llama. These models range from 7B to 70B parameters and have been trained on 2 trillion … Read more
Python comes with extensive support for exceptions and exception handling. An exception event interrupts and, if uncaught, immediately terminates a running program. The most popular examples are the IndexError, ValueError, and TypeError. An exception will immediately terminate your program. To avoid this, you can catch the exception with a try/except block around the code where … Read more
This guy makes an annual profit of $1M+ with zero employees and only $700 yearly maintenance costs. Ivan Kutskir, the solitary force behind Photopea, a free, web-based photo editing tool, has carved out a niche for himself in the competitive world of digital design tools. With over 500K daily users and a staggering annual revenue … Read more
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🧑💻 TLDR: The BitVM whitepaper by Bitcoin developer Robin Linus introduces a method to implement Ethereum-like smart contracts on Bitcoin without a hard fork. BitVM proposes a system where contract logic is executed off-chain but verified on Bitcoin, similar to Ethereum’s optimistic rollups, BitVM enables Turing-complete Bitcoin contracts. The architecture employs fraud proofs and a … Read more
Problem Formulation In the following example, you use a newline character ‘\n’ inside the curly braces of an f-string: But if you run this code, Python raises a SyntaxError: f-string expression part cannot include a backslash. ⚡ The reason is that there is a limitation in versions of Python before 3.12 where backslashes are not … Read more