Collin Paran

@pnickdurham Okay let's go fund it, there are companies that are already doing that. They just need to scale.

MICROSOFT BUILT A TOOL THAT CONVERTS LITERALLY ANYTHING INTO CLEAN MARKDOWN FOR YOUR LLM pdfs. word docs. excel. powerpoint. audio. youtube urls one pip install and your AI pipeline stops choking on raw files forever no custom parsers. no broken layouts. no garbled text. just clean, structured markdown your LLM can actually read github.com/microsoft/mark…

Had to figure out how to lower my LLM costs in creative ways: github.com/aiburstcloud/a…

LLM Knowledge Bases Something I'm finding very useful recently: using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases for various topics of research interest. In this way, a large fraction of my recent token throughput is going less into manipulating code, and more into manipulating knowledge (stored as markdown and images). The latest LLMs are quite good at it. So: Data ingest: I index source documents (articles, papers, repos, datasets, images, etc.) into a raw/ directory, then I use an LLM to incrementally "compile" a wiki, which is just a collection of .md files in a directory structure. The wiki includes summaries of all the data in raw/, backlinks, and then it categorizes data into concepts, writes articles for them, and links them all. To convert web articles into .md files I like to use the Obsidian Web Clipper extension, and then I also use a hotkey to download all the related images to local so that my LLM can easily reference them. IDE: I use Obsidian as the IDE "frontend" where I can view the raw data, the the compiled wiki, and the derived visualizations. Important to note that the LLM writes and maintains all of the data of the wiki, I rarely touch it directly. I've played with a few Obsidian plugins to render and view data in other ways (e.g. Marp for slides). Q&A: Where things get interesting is that once your wiki is big enough (e.g. mine on some recent research is ~100 articles and ~400K words), you can ask your LLM agent all kinds of complex questions against the wiki, and it will go off, research the answers, etc. I thought I had to reach for fancy RAG, but the LLM has been pretty good about auto-maintaining index files and brief summaries of all the documents and it reads all the important related data fairly easily at this ~small scale. Output: Instead of getting answers in text/terminal, I like to have it render markdown files for me, or slide shows (Marp format), or matplotlib images, all of which I then view again in Obsidian. You can imagine many other visual output formats depending on the query. Often, I end up "filing" the outputs back into the wiki to enhance it for further queries. So my own explorations and queries always "add up" in the knowledge base. Linting: I've run some LLM "health checks" over the wiki to e.g. find inconsistent data, impute missing data (with web searchers), find interesting connections for new article candidates, etc., to incrementally clean up the wiki and enhance its overall data integrity. The LLMs are quite good at suggesting further questions to ask and look into. Extra tools: I find myself developing additional tools to process the data, e.g. I vibe coded a small and naive search engine over the wiki, which I both use directly (in a web ui), but more often I want to hand it off to an LLM via CLI as a tool for larger queries. Further explorations: As the repo grows, the natural desire is to also think about synthetic data generation + finetuning to have your LLM "know" the data in its weights instead of just context windows. TLDR: raw data from a given number of sources is collected, then compiled by an LLM into a .md wiki, then operated on by various CLIs by the LLM to do Q&A and to incrementally enhance the wiki, and all of it viewable in Obsidian. You rarely ever write or edit the wiki manually, it's the domain of the LLM. I think there is room here for an incredible new product instead of a hacky collection of scripts.

I Tested 5 AI Tools to Make Money This Week — Here's What Actually Worked (And What Flopped) open.substack.com/pub/collinbuil…

🦞🛡️ OpenClaw × VirusTotal: every ClawHub skill now auto-scanned for malware 🔍 AI Code Insight catches reverse shells, crypto miners & exfiltration ⚡ ~30s verdicts 🚦 Benign/Suspicious/Malicious tiers 🔄 Daily re-scans This is not a silver bullet, but it is another layer to the shell 🦞openclaw.ai/blog/virustota…

Wow just wow, I can have #Ollama inside a #Docker offline #OpenClaw managing my internal private home network via an uncensored model. Is this what existential crisis feels like? docs.ollama.com/integrations/o…

We just open sourced the code-simplifier agent we use on the Claude Code team. Try it: claude plugin install code-simplifier Or from within a session: /plugin marketplace update claude-plugins-official /plugin install code-simplifier Ask Claude to use the code simplifier agent at the end of a long coding session, or to clean up complex PRs. Let us know what you think!

This crystal clear video of ICE shooting a US citizen in the head is what Trump’s “Golden Age” looks like: A regime of Terror Capitalism imposed on subjects across the Americas to protect economic plunder by a decadent class of Zionist tech plutocrats

@AskPerplexity What counts as first “high-powered inference” in Space?

This November, history changes. An NVIDIA H100 GPU—100 times more powerful than any GPU ever flown in space—launches to orbit. It will run Google's Gemma—the open-source version of Gemini. In space. For the first time. First AI training in orbit. First model fine-tuning in space. First high-powered inference beyond Earth. And the CEO just said: "Within 10 years, almost all new datacenters will be built in space." This is Starcloud-1. Here's why it matters.

Love this project: nanoGPT -> recursive self-improvement benchmark. Good old nanoGPT keeps on giving and surprising :) - First I wrote it as a small little repo to teach people the basics of training GPTs. - Then it became a target and baseline for my port to direct C/CUDA re-implementation in llm.c. - Then that was modded (by @kellerjordan0 et al.) into a (small-scale) LLM research harness. People iteratively optimized the training so that e.g. reproducing GPT-2 (124M) performance takes not 45 min (original) but now only 3 min! - Now the idea is to use this process of optimizing the code as a benchmark for LLM coding agents. If humans can speed up LLM training from 45 to 3 minutes, how well do LLM Agents do, under different kinds of settings (e.g. with or without hints etc.)? (spoiler: in this paper, as a baseline and right now not that well, even with strong hints). The idea of recursive self-improvement has of course been around for a long time. My usual rant on it is that it's not going to be this thing that didn't exist and then suddenly exists. Recursive self-improvement has already begun a long time ago and is under-way today in a smooth, incremental way. First, even basic software tools (e.g. coding IDEs) fall into the category because they speed up programmers in building the N+1 version. Any of our existing software infrastructure that speeds up development (google search, git, ...) qualifies. And then if you insist on AI as a special and distinct, most programmers now already routinely use LLM code completion or code diffs in their own programming workflows, collaborating in increasingly larger chunks of functionality and experimentation. This amount of collaboration will continue to grow. It's worth also pointing out that nanoGPT is a super simple, tiny educational codebase (~750 lines of code) and for only the pretraining stage of building LLMs. Production-grade code bases are *significantly* (100-1000X?) bigger and more complex. But for the current level of AI capability, it is imo an excellent, interesting, tractable benchmark that I look forward to following.

I just created a Cursor rule called ask-a-friend.mdc that manually calls up Claude Code when Cursor and all its LLMs are stuck. I think it's going to be a great tool to call when the going gets tough.

this new AI agent is incredible.. it can analyse real time market data 24/7 and suggest you to buy/sell at the right moment, it's crazy here's how it works (it's still free now):

How much time is spent doing pointless “online training”? Sounds pretty bad. Even I have to do some of this stuff.

@elonmusk FYSA USASpending uses SQL. If @DOGE needs a SQL guy, I know a few.

Reuters was literally paid by the federal government for “Large Scale Social Deception”. That’s literally what it says on the official government documents!!

Please @elonmusk do not eliminate the very important online training we do in the military every year.

@DOGE You should consider using SQL like USASpending

DOGE website is live! doge.gov Initial site: 1. X feed posts 2. Consolidated government org chart - enormous manual effort consolidating 16,000+ offices 3. Summary of the massive regulatory state, including the Unconstitutionality Index (ratio of rules written by unelected bureaucrats to laws passed by Congress) Coming soon (targeting Valentines Day): 1. Description/amount of each cost reduction (w/ receipts where applicable) 2. Overall savings scorecard We will constantly be working to maximize the site’s utility and transparency. Please let us know what else you want to see!

@elonmusk @provisionalidea Your @DOGE guy's favorite site:

@provisionalidea This retard thinks the government uses SQL

TIL Elon has never used SQL

@elonmusk Since you are all about transparency. Can @DOGE show us their SQL query to find these "150 year olds"? They can mask the actual data, an experience person can figure it out. Chances are it is an Oracle DB or MSSQL server anyway.

Just learned that the social security database is not de-duplicated, meaning you can have the same SSN many times over, which further enables MASSIVE FRAUD!! Your tax dollars are being stolen.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has argued that confiscating $50,000 from a small business did not infringe the business' right to private property because money is not property, per reason. "Money is not necessarily 'property' for constitutional purposes," the government's brief declared