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https://github.com/johnwatson11218/LatentTopicExplorer/ This tool allows you to read in a collection of pdf files and it will use AI to create clusters of documents based on semant…

I'm using postgres as part of my current project - https://github.com/johnwatson11218/LatentTopicExplorer I had added Spacey to my codebase for one of its features and found that j…

I posted my code https://github.com/johnwatson11218/LatentTopicExplorer

https://github.com/johnwatson11218/LatentTopicExplorer You have to use docker compose to get to localhost:8000 , there are still bugs but I'm working on it and there was interest e…

Thanks for the supportive comments. I'm definitely thinking I should release sooner rather than later. I have been using LLM for specific tasks and here is some sample stored proce…

I did something similar whereby I used pdfplumber to extract text from my pdf book collection. I dumped it into postgresql, then chunked the text into 100 char chunks w/ a 10 char …

I've read that by the end of ancient Egyptian history they had used tricks like a picture of an eye for the letter or sound 'I' or a picture of a bee for the sound of 'B' there was…

They talk about the specific systems in terms of legacy code and how far removed government agencies are from automated testing and other modern, best practices. It has been a coup…

If you want to know what you are up against I highly recommend - https://www.amazon.com/Recoding-America-Government-Failing-D... This book discusses the IT systems at the IRS and V…

I have a pdf of this book and was using LLM to translate the old code into modern, idiomatic python and it is very cool. I wonder if somebody will re-release it with modern code an…

I have a pipeline in Docker compose that starts up postgresql on one container and a python container. The python scripts will recursively read all the pdf files in a directory, us…

I just got a project running whereby I used python + pdfplumber to read in 1100 pdf files, most of my humble bundle collection. I extracted the text and dumped it into a 'documents…

Everyone is talking about having LLMs write software but what about having them delete code? That can be very hard in a legacy enterprise environment. I think dead code detection o…

I think the Oracle Transaction Manager is one of the best pieces of software that I had to work with in a professional settings. Lots of other stuff in an enterprise setting is ver…

My prompt that I couldn't get the LLM to understand was the following. I was having it generate images of depressing offices with no windows and with lots of depressing, grey cubic…

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I was working with deepseek to distill my thoughts on this and the best quote was " This resembles a lossy compression of software, where the "loss" is non-essential complexity.". …

Why did mathematicians invent new symbols? Imagine if all of algebra, calculus, linear algebra looked like those word problems from antiquity? Natural language is not good for desc…

A good game is supposed to be "easy to learn and hard to master". I think software abstractions should have this property as well. Too often the next "fix" in a long chain of faile…

I have wanted to do something like this for news websites for a while now. I tried the recipe site, my first url from lifehacker wasn't supported, the second attempt from the curat…

There was a documentary on Prime Video a couple of years ago that followed a card counter as he moved from casino to casino living out of his RV. I think he was up around $600K aft…

The article you linked, "tetris-sql," appears to be using database extensions to overcome SQL's limitations. While the core SQL language itself is not Turing complete, these extens…

I think asking here is a good idea but you should also try this question on the LLMs like perplexity, chatGPT , etc. This question might be too high level and not contain enough co…

Yes that is correct, I had read a different article that had a more rust first focus. I just tried to google for a reference to the news release I was referencing, but yea it doesn…

Recently the federal government issued a security advisory encouraging all new development to be done in Rust. I'm not sure the extent of which agencies this was meant to cover but…