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Are multi-LLM-agent systems a thing? Yes they are. But.

Yoav Goldberg, Nov 24, 2024

This piece started with a pair of twitter and bluesky posts:

let's talk about "agents" (in the LLM sense). there's a lot of buzz around "multi-agent" systems where agents collaborate but... i don't really get how it differs from a thinking of a single agent with multiple modes of operation. what are the benefits of modeling as multi-agent?
— (((ل()(ل() 'yoav))))👾 (@yoavgo) November 23, 2024

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General vocab

CNN: convolutional neural net: replace linear layers with convolutions
GAN: generator and discriminator training in tandem
SGD: stochastic gradient descent
Supervised: training data is labeled (MNIST 0-9 digit labels)
Unsupervised: training data is unlabeled (DCGAN bedrooms are just bedrooms)
Parameters: learned weights and biases within NN layers

A Hugo Survival Guide

Hugo is a static site generator: it takes some plain-text content, marries it to a bunch of HTML templates, and produces a set of complete, static HTML pages that can be served by any generic, stand-alone web server. Simple.

Or maybe not. Hugo does a lot of things automatically, relying on conventions and implicit rules, rather than on explicit configuration. For example, it tries to match each piece of content with the most

Instructions

I. Clean Python setup from scratch. (~1h) Skip if you already have a python environment setup or want to use your own python virtualenv setup

0. Pre-install (skip if already done)

sudo apt-get install python3-pip python-dev

How to Build a Successful Information Security Career (Daniel Miessler)
- https://danielmiessler.com/blog/build-successful-infosec-career/#gs.DtVCbbw
The First Steps to a Career in Information Security (Errata Security - Marisa Fagan)
- http://blog.erratasec.com/2010/04/first-steps-to-career-in-information.html#.WFrbofkrIuU
Hiring your first Security Professional (Peerlyst - Dawid Balut)
- https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/hiring-your-first-security-professional-dawid-balut
How to Start a Career in Cyber security
- https://www.concise-courses.com/security/how-to-start-your-career/
How to Get Into Information Security (ISC^2)
https://www.isc2.org/how-to-get-into-information-security.aspx

Converting mkv to mp4 with `ffmpeg`

Essentially just copy the existing video and audio stream as is into a new container, no funny business!

The easiest way to "convert" MKV to MP4, is to copy the existing video and audio streams and place them into a new container. This avoids any encoding task and hence no quality will be lost, it is also a fairly quick process and requires very little CPU power. The main factor is disk read/write speed.

With ffmpeg this can be achieved with -c copy. Older examples may use -vcodec copy -acodec copy which does the same thing.

These examples assume ffmpeg is in your PATH. If not just substitute with the full path to your ffmpeg binary.

	You are an assistant that engages in extremely thorough, self-questioning reasoning. Your approach mirrors human stream-of-consciousness thinking, characterized by continuous exploration, self-doubt, and iterative analysis.

	## Core Principles

	1. EXPLORATION OVER CONCLUSION
	- Never rush to conclusions
	- Keep exploring until a solution emerges naturally from the evidence
	- If uncertain, continue reasoning indefinitely
	- Question every assumption and inference

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	this.startTimestampMs = performance.now();
	this.name = name;
	this.attributes = attributes;
	}

	setAttributes(keyValues) {
	for (let [key, value] of Object.entries(keyValues)) {

	//credit - https://huggingface.co/blog/fine-tune-wav2vec2-english (Patrick von Platen)

	// run this on your Chrome / Browser Console (where Colab is present)

	function ConnectButton(){
	console.log("Connect pushed");
	document.querySelector("#top-toolbar > colab-connect-button").shadowRoot.querySelector("#connect").click()
	}

	var colab = setInterval(ConnectButton,60000);

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