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This blog is a short one but has improved my search experience immensely. last week I heard a lot of interesting content around a feature from Arc called Arc Search. Arc Search Apparently it’s a wrapper around Perplexity AI that enables a more interactive and creative search experience. If you haven’t seen it in action, here’s a review of the app on youtube. After doing some googling though, I was disappointed to find that there wasn’t a desktop mac version of Arc Search....

I recently started a new course called Practical Deep Learning. The course is taught by Jeremy Howard, a machine learning legend and founder of fast.ai. One of the first lessons in the course was training a classifier to detect birds in images. As part of learning the materials, I thought i’d be a fun experiment to extend this model to classify the top 10 most popular cocktails. Let’s get started 🍸🍹....

It’s been 2 days since the launch of Llama 3 and I’ve been itching to try it out. Here is a short blog post experimenting with ollama to locally run this sota(state of the art) llm(large language model). But first, what is llama3? What is Llama3 Meta’s Llama 3 is the most capable openly available LLM as of writing this blog. On April 18th 2024 Meta released two models of this generation, A 8B and 70B parameter model....

Today I was playing around with an LLM called Mistral 7B by running it locally with Ollama. Once installed, Ollama provides a chat interface and an API that you can use and run where ever. curl http://localhost:11434/api/generate -d '{ "model": "mistral", "prompt":"tell me a joke?" }' When running this api call, I noticed that responses were streamed back to the client in a way that appears to be token by token....

Today’s post is about creating terminal Gifs. Gifs or Graphics Interchange Format is were invented in 1987 by an American computer scientist named Steve Wilhite. Although the pronunciation has been the ripe with memes and hot debate I thought it’d be a fun to specifically find out an easy way to create Gifs of my terminal for blog posts. I was writing a post about streaming LLM request in python and a gif would provide such a clean display of the idea I was trying to get across....

Today I thought it would be a cool idea to link some of the blog posts I’ve written at work to my personal blog. The idea here is that I would have a hugo post that shows up in my archive, but when clicked, will redirect to where the post is hosted. Essentially, a simple external redirect. This proved to be a little more challenging with Hugo than I originally thought, hence the blog 🔥....

A few weeks ago a group of coworkers went skiing. Since Jess and I had never put skiis on before, we thought it’d be a good idea to get group lessons. As the squad walked up to Breckenridge Ski Resort Peak 8 I was excited and nervous. Breckenridge is no joke. Base elevation is already a whooping 9,600 ft with a 13,000 summit elevation. The resort boast 187 trails ranging in difficulty and thousands of skiers descend the slopes daily....

Traveling is one of my favorite hobbies. It’s an entry point to experiencing other interests of mine including trying new restaurants, enjoying entertainment, and sight seeing. It’s also a chance to learn how to explore and operate in a new city. A few weeks ago I visited New York City for the first time. I was starting a new job and onboarding took place in the heart of Manhattan. After the week of onboarding I had a full day to experience a sliver of what downtown New York had to offer....