To broaden my knowledge of nix, I’m working through an Overview of the Nix Language.
Most of the data types and structures are relatively self-explanatory in the context of modern programming languages.
Double single quotes strip leading spaces.
'' s '' == "s " Functions are a bit unexpected visually, but simply enough with an accompanying explanation. For example, the following is a named function f with two arguments x and y.I started working through the Zero to Nix guide. This is a light introduction that touch on a few of the command line tools that come with nix and how they can be used to build local and remote projects and enter developer environments. While many of the examples are high level concept you’d probably apply when developing with nix, flake templates are one thing I could imagine returning to often.Go introduced modules several years ago as part of a dependency management system. My Hugo site is still using git submodules to manage its theme. I attempted to migrate to Go’s submodules but eventually ran into a snag when trying to deploy the site.
To start, remove the submodule
git submodule deinit --all and then remove the themes folder
git rm -r themes To finish the cleanup, remove the theme key from config.The threading macro in Clojure provides a more readable way to compose functions together. It’s a bit like a Bash pipeline. The following function takes a string, splits on a : and trims the whitespace from the result. The threading macro denoted by -> passes the threaded value as the first argument to the functions.
(defn my-fn [s] (-> s (str/split #":") ;; split by ":" second ;; take the second element (str/trim) ;; remove whitespace from the string ) ) There is another threading macro denoted by ->> which passes the threaded value as the last argument to the functions.I was interested to learn more about the developer experience of Cloudflare’s D1 serverless SQL database offering. I started with this tutorial. Using wrangler you can scaffold a Worker and create a D1 database. The docs were straightforward up until the Write queries within your Worker section. For me, wrangler scaffolded a worker with a different structure than the docs discuss. I was able to progress through the rest of the tutorial by doing the following:I tried out jsonformer to see how it would perform with some of structured data use cases I’ve been exploring.
Setup python -m venv env . env/bin/activate pip install jsonformer transformers torch Code ⚠️ Running this code will download 10+ GB of model weights ⚠️
from jsonformer import Jsonformer from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("databricks/dolly-v2-12b") tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("databricks/dolly-v2-12b") json_schema = { "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#", "title": "RestaurantReview", "type": "object", "properties": { "review": { "type": "string" }, "sentiment": { "type": "string", "enum": ["UNKNOWN", "POSITIVE", "MILDLY_POSITIVE", "NEGATIVE", "MILDLY_NEGATIVE"] }, "likes": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "dislikes": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } } }, "required": ["review", "sentiment"] } prompt = """From the provided restaurant review, respond with JSON adhering to the schema.I’ve been keeping an eye out for language models that can run locally so that I can use them on personal data sets for tasks like summarization and knowledge retrieval without sending all my data up to someone else’s cloud. Anthony sent me a link to a Twitter thread about product called deepsparse by Neural Magic that claims to offer
[a]n inference runtime offering GPU-class performance on CPUs and APIs to integrate ML into your application