Thomas W. Holt Jr. indygwyn

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.

AI Writing Tropes to Avoid

Add this file to your AI assistant's system prompt or context to help it avoid common AI writing patterns. Source: tropes.fyi by ossama.is

Word Choice

"Quietly" and Other Magic Adverbs

PostgreSQL is Enough

See the new site: https://postgresisenough.dev

Numpy is absurd

HN Discussion

I always gripe about Python not having useful (i.e. performant and with adoption) built-in array type and Numpy doesn't distinguish "vector of vector" from "matrix", but this still surprised me.

`in` is actually `intersect`?

It seems that Numpy uses intersect logic to check a in b:

HP Smart Storage Admin CLI (`ssacli`) installation and usage on Proxmox PVE (6.x)

Why use HP Smart Storage Admin CLI?

You can use ssacli (smart storage administrator command line interface) tool to manage any of supported HP Smart Array Controllers in your Proxmox host without need to reboot your server to access Smart Storage Administrator in BIOS. That means no host downtime when managing your storage.

CLI is not as convenient as GUI interface provided by BIOS or desktop utilities, but still allows you to fully manage your controller, physical disks and logical drives on the fly with no Proxmox host downtime.

ssacli replaces older hpssacli, but shares the same syntax and adds support for newer servers and controllers.

Installation

Pull request poetry

by Richard Bullington-McGuire richard@obscure.org @obscurerichard on GitHub and Bluesky

Use these as comments in pull requests in order to charm the project owner into taking action on the pull request.

Initial ticklers

lonely pull request
the completist in me pines
for its prompt closure

Rust in Large Organizations

Initially taken by Niko Matsakis and lightly edited by Ryan Levick

Agenda

Introductions
Cargo inside large build systems
FFI
Foundations and financial support

	#!/bin/sh

	# Set the macOS installer path as a variable
	MACOS_INSTALLER="/Applications/$(ls /Applications \| grep "Install macOS")"
	MOUNT_POINT="$MACOS_INSTALLER/Contents/SharedSupport"
	echo "macOS installer is \"$MACOS_INSTALLER\""

	# Set the target disk as a variable
	TARGET=$(diskutil info "$(bless --info --getBoot)" \| awk -F':' '/Volume Name/ { print $2 }' \| sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//')
	echo "Target disk is \"$TARGET\""

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	if [ -f /usr/lib/jsc ]; then
	/usr/lib/jsc "$@"
	elif [ -f /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaScriptCore.framework/Resources/jsc ]; then
	/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaScriptCore.framework/Resources/jsc "$@"
	fi

	default['sshd']['sshd_config']['AuthenticationMethods'] = 'publickey,keyboard-interactive:pam'
	default['sshd']['sshd_config']['ChallengeResponseAuthentication'] = 'yes'
	default['sshd']['sshd_config']['PasswordAuthentication'] = 'no'