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TIL: File Uploads Using the Req Elixir Library
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.
Project: Try DALLE-3
Recently, I wanted to use OpenAI's DALLE-3 to generate some images.
TIL: Creating `sentence-transformers` Embeddings From Bumblebee
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.
Biology:Chemistry :: Chemistry:Physics :: Physics : ??
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.
Cumulative successful days, not streaks
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.
Summary of recent reading(January-March 2021)
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.