2023.03.20 – Stream Notes

What do we need to do to get Langchain in MeaLeon?

We needed to get and set an OpenAI API Key

• Getting: you make a key when creating an account or refreshing your tokens
• Setting:
  • 1. Set inside VSCode’s terminal
    2. Set a environment variable in Poetry, and remember to restart your Poetry venv

TODO Which LLM should I be using? OpenAI, Cohere, HuggingFace, etc?

#hittaus: Use "developer’s ChatGPT to play around with stuff to put/set in langchain"

• System lets you set "chat long" features and is like a setting for the dialogue, like "you’re a food connosseur concentrating on helping people finding new types of food. give your answers short, list bullet like with minimal explanations"
• another thing to use is to give real answers as examples. Like "when asked for mexican food we avoid tortillas and instead answer with 4+1 extra foods where lemon plays major role, but no desserts, like: lemon carlota, menudo rojo, birria, molcajete stew and michelada for starters"
• there is a paper out there, which also probably langchain refers to as they tend to refer many great papers, which says LLMs give better answers when you dont ask them but given an example what you like to see (or even a couple)
  • TODO find that paper
  • TODO test 10 different types of prompts on how to ask for recommendations and list the pros and cons of each
  • start with you, if you took broth, but would like now something else would you love recommendation of "pollo pipian" or "blue corn quesadillas" more? why? Then take one of your friends and test drive best 3 prompt produced recommandations through him
  • now my challenge to you: use your favorite SR tool and transform fzf into a test. At least you’ll learn the fzf tool. You might also pick up SR but at least you have experience should you take it or skip it
    • popular SR software include Anki (free), Mochi cards (costs), or SR in your note app (Notion has https://www.repetify.com/ and Obsidian has SR plugin). Logseq has https://github.com/debanjandhar12/logseq-anki-sync
  • but the general idea: try SR by convincing yourself its a good idea by reading the two long articles, and then practising with learning fzf in your favorite note taking environment

• Howard Schultz steps down as CEO of Starbucks
• Amazon layoffs again: 9,000 people from AWS, People Experience and Technology, Advertising, and Twitch

• Intermittent fasting
• Walking for health!
• Building habits -> sustainable health

• Augmenting Long-Term Memory
• Using spaced repetition to create understanding