Graph Depth-First Search (DFS)
A graph is a data structure that represents a network. A graph consists of nodes called vertices (an intersection of connections), and connections between no...
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2024
Chain of Density prompting technique
I read a whitepaper on this Chain of Density prompting technique a while ago that fascinated me.
Deeper understanding from anthropomorphic perspective-taking
I was reviewing my external brain (a massive git repo containing 20+ years of my writing/snippets/thoughts I call “memory alpha”), and came across this quote...
Tesla’s FSD v12 Information from Tesla Engineers
I’m a huge Tesla FSD nerd. The software fascinates me.
Generative AI/chatbot best practices
Over the last year, each of us in the industry has been learning how to integrate generative AI together, mostly exploring and figuring things out as we’ve g...
2023
LeetCode 219 - Contains Duplicate II
LeetCode - Contains Duplicate II
Strategies to eliminate LLM parroting (responding as both sides of conversation)
LLMs have been described as stochastic parrots (see the LangChain logo/mascot).
Insights about software development I wish had clicked earlier
A collection of insights I wish I’d had earlier in my careeer, that might be useful to others.
Agile software development cheat sheet for new devs or non-technical contributors
This is a cheat sheet for a junior dev or anyone from non-technical background joining a technical team for the first time, who wants to know how it typicall...
How to speak properly to an LLM
An LLM is literally a text predicting machine. That’s all it does.
Creating a versatile multi-prompt chatbot with memory and a data store in LangChain.
Here’s an example approach to creating a chatbot with LangChain which integrates:
Achieving route stickiness in LangChain’s multi-prompt routing
LangChain’s MultiPromptRouter is a powerful tool you can use to dynamically route an incoming message to chains with different models depending on the messag...
Achieving maximal chatbot versatility with topic routing in LangChain
Using a single prompt for a chatbot quickly runs into limitations.
LangChain lessons and observations
This is mostly a scratch for me to refer to, but figured it might also be helpful someone else.
2021
Python Class Overview
I thought it would be fun to review classes in Python and produce a blog post as an artifact, maybe to help others, or to serve as a brush-up for future-me.
Sliding Window Technique
The sliding window technique is used to eliminate travel waste (nested loop) within an array whenever you need to operate on subarrays of length K.
8 Wastes of Six Sigma, Applied to Software Engineering
Six Sigma is basically the study of efficiency in manufacturing.
2019
Achieving Deep Focus in an Open Office
Writing software is an activity that requires uninterrupted periods of deep focus.
SOLID Principles Cheat Sheet
SOLID is an acronym representing 5 principles of object-oriented programming that inform the construction of well-designed, maintainable components. These pr...
CLI Management with Navi
If you’re sick of looking through your shell history to find a command to modify and reuse, check out Navi.
Procrastisort
I’ve invented a brand new sorting algorithm, called procrastisort.