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TIL: File Uploads Using the Req Elixir Library
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The Req Elixir library doesn't support file uploads(as of version 0.4.5). Instead, you need to use multipart to construct the HTTP request before you send it.
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Project: Try DALLE-3
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Recently, I wanted to use OpenAI's DALLE-3 to generate some images.
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TIL: Creating `sentence-transformers` Embeddings From Bumblebee
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One amazing thing about the Elixir machine learning ecosystem is that you can run state-of-the-art ML models right from Elixir. You can go pick your favorite Hugging Face model and get it running without any ceremony.
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Biology:Chemistry :: Chemistry:Physics :: Physics : ??
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On the first day of class in eleventh grade, a physics teacher posed the question above to us. He explained that if you look closely enough at a biological process, you'll see that the "why" is explained by chemistry. Photosynthesis, for example, can be written down as a chemical equation.
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Cumulative successful days, not streaks
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Yesterday on the language learning app I use, I lost a streak of some 70-odd days, because I forgot to open the app. I was busy and simply forgot. And now, what was once a motivating game– to keep the number of consecutive days I've reviewed cards on the app– has the opposite effect. I don't want to start all over again.
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Summary of recent reading(January-March 2021)
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Diaspora by Greg Egan: Hard sci-fi about quite a few things but mostly centering around the nature of consciousness. Although it is about a number of different big ideas and spans a long, long time, the story gels together really well. A lot of the physics and maths stuff flew over my head, but the plot is followable.
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