Things I Learned - 21 Jul 2024
This week, I learned: GPT For Work has a set of useful spreadsheet LLM functions Xata offers a free PostgreSQL tier with REST API Mamba now uses mambaforge as the default installation, i.e. conda-forge is the default and only channel! Update: 6 Jun 2025. Mambaforge is sunset as of 29 Jul 2024. Conda-forge now uses Miniforge as the standard installer Ref conda-forge.org. Users should switch to Miniforge instead. nginx supports a load-balancing method least_conn which is far better than the default round-robin. #IMPOSSIBLE LLMs cannot provide a bounding box of objects in images. (Maybe Florence 2 can). Update: Mar 2025. Gemini has good timestamps and bounding boxes Models gently grow in capability. It helps to maintain an impossibility list that steadily gets invalidated. Ref Github Copilot internals walks through how Copilot constructs its prompts