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wrighter / download_bars.py
Last active May 5, 2025 10:32
A command line utility to download historical data from Interactive Brokers
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import sys
import argparse
import logging
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from typing import List, Optional
from collections import defaultdict
@jonlabelle
jonlabelle / ldap_search_filter_cheatsheet.md
Last active July 10, 2025 01:18
LDAP Search Filter Cheatsheet
@PierreMacherel
PierreMacherel / ReadMe.md
Last active August 5, 2022 06:18
Upload picture to nodocb using the rest api

to use:

npm install

then

npm run start -- baseURL token project_id table_id pathToImage

where

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Canx / optimize_lliurex21_v4.sh
Last active March 30, 2023 09:52
Optimización de arranque para Lliurex21 (probado en ORG2)
#!/bin/bash
# Script para acelerar el tiempo de arranque de Lliurex21.
# V4: Arreglamos fallo de sssd y desactivamos dnsmasq
# V3: Desactivamos networkd-dispatcher
# Tiempo original en un ORG2 con hdd: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Canx/01b854da791b996f81177b52c49bab07/raw/4b8965186ec68bb52931aed376636e532fc91d75/lliurex21_original.svg
# Tiempo optimizado con V2: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Canx/01b854da791b996f81177b52c49bab07/raw/4b8965186ec68bb52931aed376636e532fc91d75/lliurex21_optimized_v2.svg
# Arreglamos fallo de sssd

Some remarks on Large Language Models

Yoav Goldberg, January 2023

Audience: I assume you heard of chatGPT, maybe played with it a little, and was imressed by it (or tried very hard not to be). And that you also heard that it is "a large language model". And maybe that it "solved natural language understanding". Here is a short personal perspective of my thoughts of this (and similar) models, and where we stand with respect to language understanding.

Intro

Around 2014-2017, right within the rise of neural-network based methods for NLP, I was giving a semi-academic-semi-popsci lecture, revolving around the story that achieving perfect language modeling is equivalent to being as intelligent as a human. Somewhere around the same time I was also asked in an academic panel "what would you do if you were given infinite compute and no need to worry about labour costs" to which I cockily responded "I would train a really huge language model, just to show that it doesn't solve everything!". We

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ODSC London 2023 Half-Day Training

Dr. Yves J. Hilpisch
CEO The Python Quants | The AI Machine
Adjunct Professor of Computational Finance