hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Bonus Drop #57 (2024-08-03): Vector Similarly Search And RAG-Lite

    The weekend Bonus Drop concludes a miniseries on vector search operations with VSS in R. But wait! There’s more! We also work with Ollama and three models to build a “lite” retrieval augmented generation application over the CISA KEV corpus. #RStats

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  • Drop #514 (2024-08-09): DuckDB Vector Search

    Today’s Drop showcases DuckDB’s nascent vector search superpowers by walking through an example of how to generate embeddings for CISA KEV vulnerabilities, performing similarity search, and having Ollama guess good titles for clustered groups of KEV vulns. Tis def a code block-heavy post. #DuckDB #RStats

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  • Drop #513 (2024-08-08): TUI Thursday

    Today’s Drop covers three terminal user interface (TUI) tools! “oatmeal” is a clean interface for chatting with large language models, “discovery-rs” monitors multicast DNS services, and “otree” navigates JSON, TOML, and YAML files.

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  • Drop #511 (2024-08-06): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop talks about the FontJoy Embedding Projector, a visualization tool for font data exploration. We also 👀 into the lost and rediscovered Pouchée alphabets from the 1820s. And, it features LCT. Sinar, a contemporary free font with a reverse contrast variable style.

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  • Drop #510 (2024-08-02): SQLite Vector Search

    Today’s Drop covers the introduction of two SQLite extensions, sqlite-vec and sqlite-rembed, designed to facilitate vector search operations. These extensions provide fast and efficient vector search functionality, sponsored by the Mozilla Builders project, and enable easy integration of text embeddings from “remote” APIs (which included ollama/llamafile). With further development potential, these extensions aim to democratize…

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  • Drop #508 (2024-07-31): Wild, Wild, Wednesday

    The Drop is caught up to Wed! Trail of Bits conducted a security audit of Homebrew, uncovering some concerns including executable code vulnerabilities and CI/CD issues. We look at the highlights in the Drop and shunt readers to the completel report for more details. I expanded my Mastodon-thread of the initial features of Apple Intelligence…

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  • Drop #503 (2024-07-23): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop covers Eco fonts, which are designed to reduce ink consumption and environmental impact in printing. It also takes a look at AI-driven font recommendation systems thar=t are emerging to simplify font selection (include links to a spiffy open model, too).

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  • Drop #502 (2024-07-19): Fun? Friday

    Today’s (late) Drop includes discussions on terminal colors, Google’s URL shortener discontinuation, authenticity in AI-driven content, and a new heat stress measurement called ‘stickiness’.

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  • Bonus Drop #52 (2024-07-07): Knowledge Drop

    Today’s Knowledge Drop is a first attempt at helping me avoid doomscrolling by using AI to summarize missed socmed content. Perplexity successfully generates accurate summaries; and local LLM/GPT Gemma v2 27b also provides fast summarization (on Apple Silion, anyway). There’s even a bit of #RStats code that works with Mastodon feed output and POSTing to…

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  • Drop #490 (2024-07-01): X-CMD

    Today’s Drop features X-CMD: a versatile POSIX script framework for CLI enhancement, supporting over 500 open-source tools, language runtimes, and AI/LLM services. It offers themes, navigation, shell completion, and interactive CLI tools. It integrates with AI/LLM services like GPT models, Gemini, and Ollama, and provides access to information sources. X-CMD also offers enhanced shell commands…

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