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TIL: Sum Types With `instructor_ex`
The Instructor Elixir library lets you retrieve structured output from LLMs like the OpenAI GPT models.
TIL: Running `cargo-flamegraph` With Tauri Apps
A Tauri app is just a Rust-compiled binary. But because the Tauri workflow also involves some frontend development you normally develop your app using something like:
TIL: Base64 Encoding an ImageBuffer as PNG(in Rust)
Recently, I had to base64-encode an image::ImageBuffer to send it as a data URL like
TIL: File Uploads Using the Req Elixir Library
The Req Elixir library doesn't support file uploads(as of version 0.4.5). Instead, you need to use multipart to construct the HTTP request before you send it.
Project: Try DALLE-3
Recently, I wanted to use OpenAI's DALLE-3 to generate some images.
TIL: Creating `sentence-transformers` Embeddings From Bumblebee
One amazing thing about the Elixir machine learning ecosystem is that you can run state-of-the-art ML models right from Elixir. You can go pick your favorite Hugging Face model and get it running without any ceremony.
Biology:Chemistry :: Chemistry:Physics :: Physics : ??
On the first day of class in eleventh grade, a physics teacher posed the question above to us. He explained that if you look closely enough at a biological process, you'll see that the "why" is explained by chemistry. Photosynthesis, for example, can be written down as a chemical equation.