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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.

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;; Delimited continuations

#lang racket ; but will work in any Scheme (without this line)

;; There are other implementations along the same lines floating around.
;; Here we are trying to paint a more comprehensible (or at least a less
;; incomprehensible) picture by structuring the implementation as three
;; distinct layers:

;; Layer 1

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# some variables
POSTCSS = ./node_modules/.bin/postcss
POSTCSS_FLAGS = --use autoprefixer autoprefixer.browsers "> 2%"
# wildcard expansion is performed only in targets and in prerequisites so here we need $(wildcard)
SOURCES = $(wildcard src/css/*.css)
# use $(SOURCES) to determine what we actually need using a bit of pattern substitution
TARGETS = $(patsubst src%, build%, $(SOURCES))

# our default target (see below)
all: $(TARGETS)

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# Output Directory
OUTPUT = ../lib

all: css html js

css:
	@echo "stylus => css"
	@stylus \
		-c \

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# Output Directory
OUTPUT = ../lib

all: css

css:
	@echo "stylus => css"
	@stylus \
		-c \
		-u nib \

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# Makefile for transpiling with Babel in a Node app, or in a client- or
# server-side shared library.

.PHONY: all clean

# Install `babel-cli` in a project to get the transpiler.
babel := node_modules/.bin/babel

# Identify modules to be transpiled by recursively searching the `src/`
# directory.

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clipboard-polyfill Copy to Clipboard Part of Quoted Text

A Pen by Tom Elam on CodePen.

License.

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Virtual Hosts on nginx (CSC309)

When hosting our web applications, we often have one public IP address (i.e., an IP address visible to the outside world) using which we want to host multiple web apps. For example, one may wants to host three different web apps respectively for example1.com, example2.com, and example1.com/images on the same machine using a single IP address.

How can we do that? Well, the good news is Internet browsers

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'use strict';

if (!document.elementsFromPoint) {
    document.elementsFromPoint = elementsFromPoint;
}

function elementsFromPoint(x, y) {
    var parents = [];
    var parent = void 0;
    do {

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// vim: ft=javascript:
/*jslint sloppy: true, vars: true, white: true, nomen: true, browser: true  */
/*global SpreadsheetApp, UiApp, UrlFetchApp, Utilities */
/*
 * A script to automate requesting data from an external url that outputs CSV data.
 *
 * Adapted from the Google Analytics Report Automation (magic) script.
 * @author nickski15@gmail.com (Nick Mihailovski)
 * @author ianmlewis@gmail.com (Ian Lewis)
*/