The Changelog - v0.4.0

During the past two weeks, I have been traveling, but that hasn't stopped me from staying up-to-date with the latest articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos. Whether I was waiting at the airport or sitting on the plane, I made sure to keep myself entertained.

Now that I'm back, there is a lot to catch up on, so without further delay, I am excited to announce the release of version 0.4.0 🎉!

📰 Articles, Blog Posts, Papers, & More

Articles:

• Single and Double Underscores in Python Names. This article helped me better understand Public vs. Non-Public names.
• Money Stuff: Robots Make Good Junior Analysts. A whitty article from one of my favorite writers in the finance world.
• Serialize Your Data With Python. Data serialization is an important concept that I'm trying to become more familiar with as I transition from a data analysis/scientist to a software developer.

Blogs:

• A Convo w/ Iheanyi Ekechukwu where he shares his favorite tools as a software developer. See them in this Arc Folder.
• Why use enums?
• What is *args and how do you use it?
• Writing Documentation for Your House
• UnTyped Python: The Python That Was
• LLM Visualization
• Code is run more than read
• You can now listen to this blog
• Dead Code, Getting Untangled, and Coupling versus Decoupling
• Retrieval augmented generation: Keeping LLMs relevant and current
• UX patterns for CLI tools

Papers:

I want to have a better understanding of the how the underyling technology works in these LLMs, so I'm reading more papers on the subject and have been working through this one:

• LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models

Other:

I was thankful to find this website on dotfile configs and setups because I'm getting a new computer soon and need to move over my developer setup.

• Dotfiles.github.io is an unoffical guide to dotfiles on GitHub.
• Diátaxis - how to contrusct technical documentation
• The evolving landscape of API protocals in 2023

🗣 Quotes

How to Increase Your Luck Surface Area

"If there's one thing I've discovered in recent years it's this. The amount of serendipity that will occur in your life, your Luck Surface Area, is directly proportional to the degree to which you do something you're passionate about combined with the total number of people to whom this is effectively communicated. It's a simple concept, but an extremely powerful one because what it implies is that you can directly control the amount of luck you receive. In other words, you make your own luck."

🐦 Social Media

I have terrible handwriting that is difficult to decipher, but ChatGPT Vision can read it with ease!

• ChatGPT Vision saw this post that using ChatGPT Vision makes it really easy to transcribe handwritten jounr entries in digital text.
• 10 best films of 2023 (in alphabetical order), according to...
• Prof. Feynman - If you're wrong, admit it

🎥 Videos & 🎙Podcasts

• I recently listened to an episode of The Colin & Samir Show podcast where they discussed some of their favourite videos on YouTube with their guest Dan Mace (link here). One of the videos they mentioned was "Follow the Frog" by Max Joseph , which I found fascinating. The editing style in the video was captivating, and I noticed some similarities with some of my favourite vloggers like Casey Neistat. Although I'm not an editor and have only edited one video in my life, I have a lot of admiration for the art of storytelling through the medium of video. I'm looking forward to watching more videos from Max Joseph and other creators like him, and maybe even trying my hand at editing my own video.

• Made You Look: A True Story of Fake Art" is a documentary that explores the world of art forgery and the most successful forgery scam in the high-end art world. After seeing the Rothko paintings in the documentary. I realized that I had seen a similar painting before in Mad Men. A quick google realized I somewhat right, but as explained in this reddit thread it was not a real Rothko 🤷‍♂️.

• FastUI & Pydantic - Build Interactive UIs with Declarative Python code

• How A Small Team of Developers Created React at Facebook | React.js: The Documentary
• Unpopular opinion! LLMs really are going to displace software workers
• The state of the 2023 tech market The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

🏗 Repos

Collection of projects I have found interesting and are using in my own work.

• ⬇️ 🐍 pypinfo: View PyPI download statistics with ease.
• 🐍 PyGithub/PyGithub: Typed interactions with the GitHub API v3
• 📑 dair-ai/ML-Papers-Explained: Explanation to key concepts in ML
• 🧰 VikParuchuri/marker: Convert PDF to markdown quickly with high accuracy
• 📚 mli/paper-reading: Intensive reading of deep learning classics and new papers paragraph by paragraph
• 🤖 simonw/llm-llama-cpp: LLM plugin for running models using llama.cpp

🧸 Random

Some random stuff I came across that is worth mentioning.

• What is a Canon Event?
• Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers yikes... 🤦‍♂️.

• ML System Design: 200 case studies to learn from

• Readwise has added a new Daily Summaries feature to its Reader product that takes any saved documents in your Reader library from the previous day and sends an email with a summary for each document. I did not like the idea of more emails in my inbox, so I set a filter in my Gmail to label it, mark as read, and then forward it to my Reader Feed email. Can read more about the feature here ✨.

• Welcome to the Jargon File to learn some new Hacker slang 😎.