TWIL 003

RAG Survey

Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey

Even though it is a not so well written article, with some mistakes in writting and images. It has a good value overall. Mainly the overview of techniques from simple -> advanced -> modular.

LLM in research

We had a good laugh on social networks for these guys:

LLM are obviously very handy when generating text, certainly not a “crisis”

The scale of usage LLM can be estimated. Currently:

Our results suggest that between 6.5% and 16.9% of text submitted as peer reviews to these conferences could have been substantially modified by LLMs, i.e. beyond spell-checking or minor writing updates.

%pip > !pip

I am last to the party, where everyone knows how to access virtual environment to the jupyter lab. %pip list. Thanks StackOverflow

To EXPORT or not to EXPORT

Always got confused with vars in bash. How to define them and when to use “export”. Shortly, without export, it is a shell variable. With it, environment variable - available for child processes. Full description.

YAML

I was reading some documentation and was very confused, that following snippet {x: 2.0, y: 0.0, z: 0.0} is a YAML input. After unreasonable time with GPT, Google and Yaml specs and linters ( https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/ https://www.yamllint.com/ ). IT IS!