Python Use Cases
This reference sheet maps common Python use cases to solutions.
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Hiring Top Tech Talent: Expert Strategies
As a former owner of a successful software company, I have extensive experience hiring tech workers from platforms like Upwork and Freelancer.
Throughout my career, I’ve screened hundreds, if not thousands, of applications and developed a keen eye for identifying top talent. In this article, I will share my insights on what to look for in tech workers and provide a step-by-step process to ensure you make the best hiring decisions for your business.
…Class to Read Values Stored in appsettings.json
The following class could come in handy if you want to values from the appsettings.json file present in ASP.NET Projects. It uses an indexer to access the values in the file.
…Losing Context with OpenAI Completions? Do This.
The other day I was playing around with the OpenAI completions API and encountered a situation where the context of the conversation was lost – in other words each call to a completion cause the LLM to “forget” what was previously said.
…Easy to Use .NET OpenAI Library
I fired up Visual Studio yesterday to check out OpenAI to work on a little web app for my parenting website. Along the way I discovered the cool Betalgo .NET library which wraps the OpenAI APIs. I was able to get things up and running literally within minutes.
…Great ChatGPT Cheat Sheet
Neural Magic has put together a fabulous “ChatGPT Cheat Sheet” covering NLP tasks, code generation, structured/unstructured output styles, media types, expert prompting, and more. If you use ChatGPT you’ll want to check it out.
The ChatGPT cheat sheet can be found here.
Learn These 2 Tools for Deeper Artificial Intelligence Solutions
Since DALL-E, and the GPT family of large language models models burst on the scene, artificial intelligence applications have gone mainstream. As you probably know, you can use AI technologies in a variety of languages such as C#, Java, and even JavaScript through publically available APIs.
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The Need to Differentiate Your AI Product
Alex Banks has a great article discussing how devs and businesses can differentiate their AI-related product. He describes the problem as such:
Building applications on top of large language models (LLMs) has been the latest craze in this fast-flowing water. More people making more products means a lot of commoditisation. You get a flood of people who don’t innovate when a new technology comes around.
Fix Red Tint in Windows
The other day I noticed my Windows 11 desktop had a red tint to it. After a bunch of reading and experimenting, I discover that the Windows nightlight feature seems to have permanently altered my colors – even after a shutdown/startup. To resolve this I ended up doing a ‘full’ shutdown and reboot (by default Windows does a quick shutdown which causes the system to not fully initialize). If you are having this problem, just do the following:
- {Shutdown all applications}
- Open a command prompt (Windows button > type
cmd> ClickCommand Prompt. - Type
shutdown /r /t 0 - {Wait for reboot}
Since I kept having problems with this I went ahead and disable night light altogether (Windows button > Night Light) and just installed f.lux instead.
Auto-Shut Down VirtualBox Guest when Windows Host Shuts Down
I’ve always found it annoying that when I shutdown windows it takes down my VirtualBox guests in an ungraceful manner. Most times this ends up causing the guest to load very slowly the next time I use it, although on one occasion a guest image was actually corrupted.
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