Nicolay Gerold

I can only truly speak for myself as a 10x developer, and here’s what I believe to be different about me and the other 10x (or even 100x) developers vs my 1–2x peers:

• Understanding how things work.


• I hate “magic” software frameworks and I will spend countless hours making sure I understand what’s going on behind the scenes before I’ll write productio

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Sounds fancy. Why do we care? GAR involves taking the source documents and having an LLM enrich them, prior to indexing. For example, the LLM might... * Generate titles for documents that are missing them * Standardize author names/formats* Extract dates, URLs, citations and other elements that might be valuable to search as separate fields* Create... See more

Here was his secret to getting clients on Upwork 👇 He'd find a job posting that seemed like a good fit, then would ask himself... "If I got this job, what would I do on day 1?" Then he would do that (before even applying). As he put it, the "cheat code" was that rather than making his application all about him and his expertise, he'd make it about... See more

A-Players are obsessive, learn from mistakes, coachable, intelligent, don’t make excuses, believe in Youtube, see the value of this company, and are the best in the goddamn world at their job. B-Players are new people that need to be trained into A-Players, and C-Players are just average employees. [...] They arn’t obsessive and learning. C-Players

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Simply adding "Repeat the question before answering it." somehow make the models answer the trick question correctly.

Probable explanations: Repeating the question in the model's context, significantly increasing the likelihood of the model detecting any potential "gotchas."

One hypothesis is that maybe it puts the model into more of a completion mo... See more

1) Be clearDevelopers don’t have time for fluff. If they don’t understand your offer immediately, they’ll move on. While brevity is good, avoid being too vague. For example, “Email for Developers” lacks clarity. Does it mean marketing, transactional emails, or an inbox?2) Highlight your valueYou must explain the “why,” not just the “what.” For inst... See more

OpenAI Whisper - llamafile

Whisperfile is a high-performance implementation of OpenAI's

Whisper created by Mozilla Ocho as

part of the llamafile

project, based on the

whisper.cpp software written

by Georgi Gerganov, et al.

Model creator: OpenAI

Original models: openai/whisper-release

Origin of quantized weights: ggerganov/whisper.cpp

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Consulting Stack Setup Todo List¶

1. Set up business foundation¶

• Form an LLC using Doola


• Open a business bank account with Mercury


• Set up QuickBooks, Accountant, for bookkeeping, email me for referral

2. Implement essential software tools¶

• Set up Stripe for invoicing


• Sign up for Dropbox and Dropbox Sign


• Create a Cal.com account for scheduling


• Set

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dasel

Dasel (short for data-selector) allows you to query and modify data structures using selector strings.

Comparable to jq / yq, but supports JSON, YAML, TOML, XML and CSV with zero runtime dependencies.

One tool to rule them all

Say good bye to learning new tools just to work with a different data format.

Dasel uses a standard selector syntax no m... See more

What is feder

Feder is a JavaScript tool designed to aid in the comprehension of embedding vectors. It visualizes index files from Faiss, HNSWlib, and other ANN libraries to provide insight into how these libraries function and the concept of high-dimensional vector embeddings. Currently, Feder is primarily focused on the IVF_FLAT index file type f... See more