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This week, I learned: If we can DESCRIBE what good looks like, training data is no gap. We can auto optimise models towards that. That’s RLF. DeepSeek R1 side stepped the need for training data by creating reward functions and prompts. This tells the fine tuning process how to go correct as it goes along. This video is the first one that really help me understand what’s going on. I was born in the Ananda year in the Tamil and Telugu calendars. ChatGPT Andrej Karpathy’s note taking mechanism is similar to mine, except I use Microsoft TODO. Ref I have 3 categories. Things I learnt, which I just note. Things to explore, which I can delegate, defer, drop, or do at any time. Things to do, which are the hardest and pile up. Alexander Doria shares an interesting perspective on the app space. Model is the product Models are natively absorbing app capability and will become killer systems internalising workflows like Chat, Deep Research, Claude Code, Operator, etc. to wipe out the apps and workflow space. Models will “internalize” tool capabilities Opinionated or focused training will be a lever and model providers will acqui-hire the successful trainers API access from model providers will shrink. Selling tokens is not a viable business model given lowering costs The huggingface_hub cache-system uses symlinks by default to efficiently store duplicated files. To support symlinks on Windows, you either need to activate Developer Mode or to run Python as an administrator. In Windows, you can enable offline files for any SMB share via: Control Panel → Sync Center → Manage offline files and turn on the feature. Then, in File Explorer, right‑click the mapped network folder or drive and select “Always available offline.” OpenAI now supports PDFs natively in the API. (Gemini has done so for a while) Anger is a trigger for change. “Either change yourself or the environment, else you’ll be uncomfortable.” HocusPocus allows live collaboration e.g. editing together Block notes is a notion like library for editor components. Converts to Markdown Oxidizr enables replacing Linux tools with Rust equivalents. Emoji Kitchen lets you create stickers from emoji combinations. Another way of scaling LLMs is generating multiple options and self evaluating. Eric Zhao duckdb -ui launches a DuckDB notebook. This is built into newer DuckDB releases Monolith downloads web pages as a single HTML file by embedding content. Archgw is an LLM proxy/router from the makers of Envoy proxy. There’s an annotated Terry Pratchett! Gemini API allows YouTube videos as a part. Google agents.json is a proposal for discovery of agents on a site that enhances the Open API spec: wild-card-ai/agents-json Since Gemini Flash 2.0 is now an image GENERATION model, interactive VISUAL fiction is now a cool possibility. People are using it in interesting ways: Interleaved storytelling, Memes, Surrealism.

In Excel, using Visual Basic, you can change an image as you scroll. This makes it easy to look at each image and annotate it. This is how I transcribed every Calvin & Hobbes. I used this technique first when typing out the strips during my train rides from Bandra to Churchgate. I had an opportunity to re-apply it recently when we needed to tag hundreds of photographs based on a set of criteria. ...

I’ve been going around setting up open source software a fair bit recently. To minimise the pain of explaining it, I’m putting together a short videos that explain the process. Here’s the first, on XAMPP, which is a starting point for most open source applications. It bundles Apache (web server), MySQL (database), Perl and PHP. To install it, search and download “XAMPP for Windows”, and press enter for every question. Then install your application under C:\xampp\htdocs. That’s it. ...

When I’m in front of my laptop, I usually forget the world around. Sadly, the world around has important things that need to get done on time. Like eating medicines, turning off the washing machine or the hob, etc. The one thing I’ve been lacking on my machine was a simple alarm system. I’d like to set an alarm to remind me to do something in 5 minutes, for example. And it should be dead simple to set up. ...

Here’s the fastest way I’ve found to install Ubuntu on a USB flash drive, for my Dell Latitude D420. (Pendrivelinux.com is a great resource for this sort of thing.) Ingredients One large USB flash drive like this one. Not less than 4GB. I’d suggest 8GB or more One CD (not a DVD) Ubuntu 8.10 desktop CD ISO IMGBurn or any other CD burning software Direct Internet via LAN cable (without proxy, without wireless) Installation ...

Opening programs from the Start - All Programs menu is painful. For many years, I relied on the quick launch bar. But it’s space constrained. There are only so many applications you can place there. I want space enough for frequently used documents as well. Recently, I decided that I need all the space on the screen. So my task bar is on auto hide, and that makes the quick launch bar a little tougher to use as well. And finally, I can’t use the quick launch bar with the keyboard. That’s important. ...

Windows has a “Yes to all” in some of its dialogs – for example when replacing files. Here’s how you can simulate a “No to all”. (Just shift-click the “No” button).

If you’ve forgotten your Windows password, but you’re still logged in as an administrator, you can change your Windows password without confirmation of the old password. If you’re forgotten your Windows password, and not logged in, you can still access your system using a little known hole in Windows XP. Check Vic Ferri’s article on I Forgot My Administrator Password. Comments windows 7 Mar 2009 2:51 am: Forgot Your Windows Password? A lot of people think that after having lost their Windows admin password, they absolutely have to reinstall their OS. Let me tell you something: They are wrong! Here I’m posting a few methods / utilities which can be used to recover Windows password: 1st Method: The first thing which you check if you forget login password. When we install Windows, it automatically creates an account “Administrator” and sets its password to blank. So if you have forget your user account password then try this: Start system and when you see Windows Welcome screen / Login screen, press + and Del keys twice and it’ll show Classic Login box. Now type “Administrator” (without quotes) in Username and leave Password field blank. Now press Enter and you should be able to log in Windows. Now you can reset your account password from “Control Panel -> User Accounts”. Same thing can be done using Safe Mode. In Safe Mode Windows will show this in-built Administrator account in Login screen. 2th Method: There are many 3rd party utilities which claim to recover forgotten Windows password: Windows Password Recovery Tool Service: windowspasswordsrecovery.com Windows Password Recovery Tool is a program that works instantly to remove any lost or forgotten password. Simply boot your PC from the supplied Boot CD, and get access to forgotten Windows and administrator passwords in just seconds. Their method is so much faster/easier, and works great! http://windowspasswordsrecovery.com zhuismile 13 Jun 2010 8:36 am: Can’t remember your windows xp admin password?Windows password key 8.0 has a neat trick that will get you back in.This method is easy for everyone to follow. Download the utility from http://sn.im/xd5sa and install it then burn the software to a CD/USB drive,then insert the newly created CD/USB drive to your locked pc and reboot your computer,then press “F2” to enter your BIOS setup,following the instruction to reset your lost windows password.

Why I don’t use a registry cleaner

Boot up Windows before you log in.

Folder Size lets you see the size of folders in Windows Explorer. Useful to find out where all the junk is hidden.

Dr DivX is now open source. You may prefer it to Virtual Dub.

What really happens when you Format C:.

The end of error-message advertising. Bonzi has been ordered by the courts to stop advertising popups that look like Windows error messages. I’ve been conned a few times by these too.

The real reason for .NET: taking Windows to UNIX.

At last, Microsoft will be revealing its Windows source. Parts of it.

Mac Myths for Windows users. Incidentally, I didn’t know about Apple’s open source efforts.

They say it is possible. Living without Microsoft.

David Wheeler’s report shows how open source is quantintatively better than Windows. All it needs is a good user interface, a suite of applications, and a little less fanaticism about keeping it free, in order for it to commercialise.