Matías Agustín Méndez matagus

"Improve Database Cache Backend" By Hisham Mahmood, Django, 2024

Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts of models in prod eagerly sought.

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models

You probably don't know how to do Prompt Engineering

(This post could also be titled "Features missing from most LLM front-ends that should exist")

Apologies for the snarky title, but there has been a huge amount of discussion around so called "Prompt Engineering" these past few months on all kinds of platforms. Much of it is coming from individuals who are peddling around an awful lot of "Prompting" and very little "Engineering".

Most of these discussions are little more than users finding that writing more creative and complicated prompts can help them solve a task that a more simple prompt was unable to help with. I claim this is not Prompt Engineering. This is not to say that crafting good prompts is not a difficult task, but it does not involve doing any kind of sophisticated modifications to general "template" of a prompt.

Others, who I think do deserve to call themselves "Prompt Engineers" (and an awful lot more than that), have been writing about and utilizing the rich new eco-system

Culture

What do you like best about working there?
What do you like least?
How would you describe this company's culture? engineering culture?
What causes the most conflict among employees here?
What would you change if you could?
How has the company changed in the past five years? How do you think it will change in the next five?
How long has the longest serving team member been there?
What's the average or median tenure?

Hi Tom!

Here's what the Markdown for a book looks like on macwright.org:

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categories:
  - book
layout: book
title: 'My Year of Rest and Relaxation'

Thoughts on habits + practices for giving/receiving feedback effectively, as well as creating systems that get better at this with time

Writeups

Company Blogs
- Plaid: https://blog.plaid.com/building-an-inclusive-code-review-culture/
- Vox: https://product.voxmedia.com/2018/8/21/17549400/kindness-and-code-reviews-improving-the-way-we-give-feedback
Sandya Sankarram
- https://medium.com/@sandya.sankarram/unlearning-toxic-behaviors-in-a-code-review-culture-b7c295452a3c
Michael Lynch

	#!/bin/sh

	# References
	# https://www.pythonguis.com/tutorials/packaging-pyqt5-applications-pyinstaller-macos-dmg/
	# https://medium.com/@jackhuang.wz/in-just-two-steps-you-can-turn-a-python-script-into-a-macos-application-installer-6e21bce2ee71

	# ---------------------------------------
	# Clean up previous builds
	# ---------------------------------------

	from django.test.client import RequestFactory
	from django.http import HttpResponse
	from django.db import transaction, DatabaseError
	from django.db.models.sql.compiler import SQLCompiler
	from django.utils import timezone

	from silk.collector import DataCollector
	from silk.config import SilkyConfig
	from silk.model_factory import RequestModelFactory, ResponseModelFactory
	from silk.profiling.profiler import silk_meta_profiler

	"""
	This file is based on https://github.com/foresmac/django-binaryuuidfield/tree/initial-setup
	"""

	import uuid

	from django import forms
	from django.core import exceptions
	from django.db import models
	from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _

	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	# -- coding: utf-8 --
	# @Author: Ariel Torti
	# @GitHub: github.com/maks500
	import argparse
	import logging
	import os
	import shutil
	import sys
	import time