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The Rise of Large Language Models: A Journey into the Future of NLP

In recent years, the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has been at the forefront of advancing Natural Language Processing (NLP) to new heights. LLMs such as OpenAI’s GPT-3 or its successor, GPT-4, have not only demonstrated the capability to understand and...

Git Tips: Search code with git grep

Introduction Use git grep to search code within the git repo. It makes it very convenient and efficient to do code searches without leaving your terminal (or editor). Setup Git Repo Setting up a sample git repo to play with git grep. git init someproject cd...

Python Tips: Simple HTTP and CGI Servers

Simple HTTP server This server can be used to serve HTML files. # Python2 python -m simplehttpserver # Python3 python3 -m http.server python3 -m http.server 8080 python3 -m http.server 8080 –bind 127.0.0.1 Simple CGI server # Python2 python -m CGIHTTPServer #...

Python Tips: JSON

Parsing JSON import json data = json.loads(json_string) Dumping complex structures import json print json.dumps(something) Convert YAML to JSON import yaml, json with open(‘./file.yaml’) as f:...

Python Tips: chr, ord, ascii

chr, ord, and ascii, are built-in functions in the Python programming language. They are used to convert and represent characters and strings, specifically Unicode and ASCII character sets. chr This function returns a string representing a character whose Unicode code...

Python Tips: Getting Data from a Flask Request

To retrieve data received in a Flask request, you can use the following attributes available on the request object: from flask import request request.args: This attribute contains the key/value pairs from the URL query string. You can access them...

awk Programming Basics

Data-driven scripting language for data extraction and reporting. Line-by-line or record-by-record processing of text files. Blocks Working with a single file BEGIN { print(“”runs at the start of all records””) } { print(“”run for...

Git Tips: Create git commit in the past or future!

Introduction Commit smaller chunks of code often, and always commit in the present. git-commit man page: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit git commit takes author and committer information from the following environment variables if they are set: GIT_AUTHOR_NAME...

On solving engineering problems (rather any problem)

Ask yourself these questions when you are faced with a problem: Is it really a problem? Does the problem need to be solved? Does the problem need to be solved now? Does the problem need to be solved by you/us? Can you/we break the problem into chunks and solve them?...