Nicolay Gerold

So right now, LLMs (Large Language Models) are all the rage. But in the future, it’s possible that the way we get things done is composing things with a combination of LLMs, SMMs (Small, Mighty Models), agents and tools.

It’s what I call Cognitive Composition (because it sounds cool and I have a longtime love affair with alliteration).

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Red blood cells turn over roughly every 120 days. They offer many interesting more long term biomarkers for health (e.g. Omega-3 index).

1. Synthetic Data for Baseline Metrics¶

Synthetic data can be used to establish baseline precision and recall metrics for your reverse search. The simplest kind of synthetic data is to take existing text chunks, generate synthetic questions, and verify that when we query our synthetic questions, the sourced text chunk is retrieved correctly.

Benefi... See more

For High Throughput data, Grab uses Apache Avro with a strategy called Merge on Read (MOR) .

Here's the main operations with Merge on Read:

• Write Operations - When data is written, it's appended to the end of a log file. This is much more efficient than merging it in the current data and reduces the latency of writes.


• Read Operations - When you need

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The Gemini API context caching feature is designed to reduce the cost of requests that contain repeat content with high input token counts.

When to use context caching

Context caching is particularly well suited to scenarios where a substantial initial context is referenced repeatedly by shorter requests. Consider using context caching for use cases... See more

For Global State

There are a lot of different state managers in front-end development. Every time you blink a new state management is being open-sourced. But the one that works for me is MobX.

Some people don’t like it because a lot of “magic” happens behind the scenes out of your control. But for me, that is a feature, not a bug. I like to... See more

Here's a list of those log levels from lowest precedence to highest:

notset (0) - Indicates that ancestor loggers should be consulted for the log level or that all events are logged (default setting)

debug (10) - Detailed information that would be of interest to the developer for diagnostic purposes

info (20) - Information that confirms that your... See more

Shipping to production

Before shipping to production, we think about all the different artifacts that might be affected by a new feature.

Here's a non-exhaustive list of things we ask ourselves:

• Does the API need to be updated?


• Is the OpenAPI spec up to date now?


• Have we released all the official SDKs?


• Do we need to write a Changelog post to announce

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