bc Is the Only Calculator You Need in Unix
bc, for basic calculator, is an arbitrary-precision calculator language with syntax similar to the C programming language. In this post, we will explore the features of bc and how to use it.
Unix for Poets: Basic Text Processing Using Unix Tools
Kenneth Ward Church in Unix™ for Poets shows how basic text processing tasks like splitting text into words, counting words, sorting words in rhyming order and even computing n-grams can be done by anybody using simple unix tools without any fancy tools or algorithms, even on a modest PC.
Leveraging Large Language Models for Downstream Tasks: From Fine-tuning to Retrival-Augmented Generation (RAG)
There are two key strategies for leveraging pre-trained LLMs for downstream tasks: fine-tuning and few-shot learning. We will briefly explore both approaches, highlighting their benefits, challenges, and use cases.