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LLM Wiki

A pattern for building personal knowledge bases using LLMs.

This is an idea file, it is designed to be copy pasted to your own LLM Agent (e.g. OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode / Pi, or etc.). Its goal is to communicate the high level idea, but your agent will build out the specifics in collaboration with you.

The core idea

Most people's experience with LLMs and documents looks like RAG: you upload a collection of files, the LLM retrieves relevant chunks at query time, and generates an answer. This works, but the LLM is rediscovering knowledge from scratch on every question. There's no accumulation. Ask a subtle question that requires synthesizing five documents, and the LLM has to find and piece together the relevant fragments every time. Nothing is built up. NotebookLM, ChatGPT file uploads, and most RAG systems work this way.

The Best of the Best Practices (BOBP) Guide for Python

A "Best of the Best Practices" (BOBP) guide to developing in Python.

In General

Values

"Build tools for others that you want to be built for you." - Kenneth Reitz
"Simplicity is alway better than functionality." - Pieter Hintjens

	# --------------------------------------------------------
	# Camera Caffe sample code for Tegra X2/X1
	#
	# This program captures and displays video from IP CAM,
	# USB webcam, or the Tegra onboard camera, and do real-time
	# image classification (inference) with Caffe. Refer to the
	# following blog post for how to set up and run the code:
	#
	# https://jkjung-avt.github.io/camera-caffe-threaded/
	#

	#! /usr/bin/env python

	# Import a mbox file to a Google Group using https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/groups-migration/index
	# You'll need to install https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/python/
	# and enable Groups Migration API, read prerequisits of the API SDK

	from __future__ import print_function

	import mailbox
	import StringIO

	# Corsair headsets will stuck the apps on your linux system. This is due to wrong usb-mapping.

	# thx to http://www.c0urier.net/2016/corsair-gaming-void-usb-rgb-linux-fun

	# 1. open terminal
	# 2. type this and search the line with your headset
	lsusb


	# Get the USB ID of the headset and add it to xorg.conf:

	#!/bin/sh
	# Run two video webcam feeds in two different windows
	# Script assumes that:
	# Microsoft LifeCam Studio is video0
	# Logitech c920 is video1
	# Both cameras run max 1920x1080 MJPG, but two have both on a USB bus they can run @ 1280x720 max
	# MS is made a little smaller
	# text overlay and clockoverlay may be added to the pipeline, but render poorly
	VELEM="v4l2src device=/dev/video0 do-timestamp=true"
	VCAPS="image/jpeg, width=640, height=480, framerate=30/1"

	% --------------------------------------------------------------
	% This is all preamble stuff that you don't have to worry about.
	% Head down to where it says "Start here"
	% --------------------------------------------------------------

	\documentclass[12pt]{article}

	\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
	\usepackage{amsmath,amsthm,amssymb}