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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.

@karpathy
karpathy / add_to_zshrc.sh
Created August 25, 2024 20:43
Git Commit Message AI
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# AI-powered Git Commit Function
# Copy paste this gist into your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc to gain the `gcm` command. It:
# 1) gets the current staged changed diff
# 2) sends them to an LLM to write the git commit message
# 3) allows you to easily accept, edit, regenerate, cancel
# But - just read and edit the code however you like
# the `llm` CLI util is awesome, can get it here: https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/
gcm() {
@wch
wch / lmgadget.R
Created January 20, 2016 18:17
Shiny Gadget example: lmGadget
library(shiny)
# Example usage:
# lmGadget(mtcars, "wt", "mpg")
#
# Returns a list with two items:
# $data: Data with excluded rows removed.
# $model: lm (model) object.
lmGadget <- function(data, xvar, yvar) {
library(miniUI)
@tbates
tbates / The Difference Pool.md
Last active August 29, 2015 14:10
Thoughts about a subject pool at Edinburgh

The Difference Pool

  1. Subjects: Population sample
  • N must be over 500, preferably 2,000
  • Ideally genetically informative
  1. Recruitment
  • Students
  • Public advertisements
  1. Content: There will be a set of basic features that will be tested at the outset
  • Need to compromise on this. Perhaps 2-hours of testing in the first instance?
# rm(list = ls()) # clear objects
# graphics.off() # close graphics windows
plot.new() # call new plot window
x = seq(-5,5, length=250)
y = dnorm(x)
plot(x,y, las=1, ylab='dnorm', type='n', yaxs='i', ylim=c(0, 0.5))
x2 = seq(qnorm(0.95), 5, length=50)
y2 = dnorm(x2)
polygon(c(x2[1], x2, x2[length(x2)]), c(0, y2, 0), border=NA, col='grey')
lines(x, y)
@brandonb927
brandonb927 / osx-for-hackers.sh
Last active April 10, 2026 09:45
OSX for Hackers: Yosemite/El Capitan Edition. This script tries not to be *too* opinionated and any major changes to your system require a prompt. You've been warned.
#!/bin/sh
###
# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
###
# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
# on the web, most from here
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx
@jeromyanglim
jeromyanglim / example-r-markdown.rmd
Created May 17, 2012 04:23
Example of using R Markdown
This post examines the features of [R Markdown](http://www.rstudio.org/docs/authoring/using_markdown)
using [knitr](http://yihui.name/knitr/) in Rstudio 0.96.
This combination of tools provides an exciting improvement in usability for
[reproducible analysis](http://stats.stackexchange.com/a/15006/183).
Specifically, this post
(1) discusses getting started with R Markdown and `knitr` in Rstudio 0.96;
(2) provides a basic example of producing console output and plots using R Markdown;
(3) highlights several code chunk options such as caching and controlling how input and output is displayed;
(4) demonstrates use of standard Markdown notation as well as the extended features of formulas and tables; and
(5) discusses the implications of R Markdown.