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The Colab-Hugging-Face-Llama3.1 Troika: Getting Started

A straightforward procedure for incorporating a Meta-Llama3.1 transformer hosted at Hugging Face within a Google Colab notebook.

Ollama Serving Llama3.1 Over HTTP

A simple Ollama C++ client interacting with Llama3.1 to list Catholic saints.

LangChain Vector Store Queries

Vector DB retrieval using Facebook AI Similarity Search (FAISS) with OpenAI embeddings

OpenAI Completion Models

Comparing OpenAI text and chat completion models via python-langchain.

OpenAI Few Shot Prompt Engineering

Python code for OpenAI chat showcasing the few shot prompting technique

TinyML: Serial to Google Drive

Lab Notes for Chapter 02 of TinyML Cookbook 2E

CUDA Programming: Hello, World

The customary ‘Hello, World’ program.

Deploy CUDA on Windows x64 (MSYS2)

A short recipe for setting up a command line CUDA environment in Windows.

openFrameworks: Sketch My Name

A simple program to showcase creative coding with openFrameworks.

Deploy openFrameworks on Windows x64

How to quickly get started with openFrameworks in windows.

C++ Notes to Self: Shared Pointers

‘std::shared_ptr is a smart pointer that retains shared ownership of an object through a pointer. Several shared_ptr objects may own the same object.’ [cppreference.com]

C++ Notes to Self: Unique Pointers

‘A unique pointer is a smart pointer that owns and manages another object through a pointer and disposes of that object when the unique_ptr goes out of scope.’ [cppreference.com]

C++ Notes to Self: Namespaces

‘A namespace is a declarative region that provides a scope to the identifiers (the names of types, functions, variables, etc) inside it.’ [learn.microsoft.com]

C++ Notes to Self: Inline Functions

‘Functions can be instructed to compiler to make them inline so that compiler can replace those function definition wherever those are being called.’ [cpulusplus.com]

C++ Notes to Self: Function Overloading

‘With function overloading, multiple functions can have the same name with different parameters.’ [w3schools.com]

C++ Notes to Self: The auto Keyword

‘The auto keyword directs the compiler to use the initialization expression of a declared variable, or lambda expression parameter, to deduce its type.’ [learn.microsoft.com]

C++ Notes to Self: Pointers

‘Pointers are a very powerful feature of the language that has many uses in lower level programming.’ [cplusplus.com]

C++ Notes to Self: Ranged Based for Loop

‘The range based for loop is added in C++ 11 standard and is a more compact form of its traditional equivalent.’ [tutorialspoint.com]

C++ Notes to Self: Reference Variables

‘C++ references allow you to create a second name for the a variable that you can use to read or modify the original data stored in that variable.’ [cprogramming.com]