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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.

Getting Started in Scala

This is my attempt to give Scala newcomers a quick-and-easy rundown to the prerequisite steps they need to a) try Scala, and b) get a standard project up and running on their machine. I'm not going to talk about the language at all; there are plenty of better resources a google search away. This is just focused on the prerequisite tooling and machine setup. I will not be assuming you have any background in JVM languages. So if you're coming from Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Haskell, or anywhere…  I hope to present the information you need without assuming anything.

Disclaimer It has been over a decade since I was new to Scala, and when I was new to Scala, I was coming from a Java and Ruby background. This has probably caused me to unknowingly make some assumptions. Please feel free to call me out in comments/tweets!

One assumption I'm knowingly making is that you're on a Unix-like platform. Sorry, Windows users.

Getting the JVM

@akre54
akre54 / .gitignore
Last active October 27, 2015 13:23
Backbone deps test
node_modules
out.js*
@danharper
danharper / gulpfile.js
Last active September 25, 2024 09:04
New ES6 project with Babel, Browserify & Gulp
var gulp = require('gulp');
var sourcemaps = require('gulp-sourcemaps');
var source = require('vinyl-source-stream');
var buffer = require('vinyl-buffer');
var browserify = require('browserify');
var watchify = require('watchify');
var babel = require('babelify');
function compile(watch) {
var bundler = watchify(browserify('./src/index.js', { debug: true }).transform(babel));
@staltz
staltz / introrx.md
Last active July 19, 2026 16:25
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
var _ = require('underscore');
var Backbone = require('backbone');
var cheerio = require('cheerio');
var request = require('request');
Backbone.ajax = function(options) {
options.json = true;
return request(options, function(error, result) {
if (error) {
@mollerse
mollerse / gulpfile-express.js
Last active March 5, 2026 10:29
Gulpfile for livereload + static server
var gulp = require('gulp'),
sass = require('gulp-sass'),
browserify = require('gulp-browserify'),
concat = require('gulp-concat'),
embedlr = require('gulp-embedlr'),
refresh = require('gulp-livereload'),
lrserver = require('tiny-lr')(),
express = require('express'),
livereload = require('connect-livereload')
livereloadport = 35729,
@michaelcox
michaelcox / SpecRunner.js
Last active October 12, 2024 17:11
Browser Unit Testing with Backbone Mocha Chai and RequireJS
require.config({
baseUrl: '/backbone-tests/',
paths: {
'jquery' : '/app/libs/jquery',
'underscore' : '/app/libs/underscore',
'backbone' : '/app/libs/backbone',
'mocha' : 'libs/mocha',
'chai' : 'libs/chai',
'chai-jquery' : 'libs/chai-jquery',
'models' : '/app/models'
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active July 20, 2026 13:24
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD
@respectTheCode
respectTheCode / static_server.js
Created February 27, 2012 20:36 — forked from ryanflorence/static_server.js
Node.JS static file web server. Put it in your path to fire up servers in any directory, takes an optional port argument.
var http = require("http"),
url = require("url"),
path = require("path"),
fs = require("fs"),
mime = require("mime")
port = process.argv[2] || 8888;
http.createServer(function(request, response) {
var uri = url.parse(request.url).pathname