Nels Lindahl — Functional Journal

A weblog created by Dr. Nels Lindahl featuring writings and thoughts…

Tag: Learning

  • Doing a bit of learning

    Let’s recap from yesterday:

    I was able to work on a few Salesforce Trailhead badges. I’m now at 25,800 points. That means only 9,200 points stand between me and reaching the Expeditioner rank. At some point, I’m going to have to spend a little more time on some of the more complex higher point badges.

    Yesterday, I finished 35% of the Foundations of Cybersecurity course on Coursera. I’ll jump into the next week of that course today. 

    Five big things for 10/5/23:

    1. I need to spend a couple of hours working on an Agile certificate
    2. Build something on LangSmith
    3. MPSA
    4. Substack Block
    5. Cybersecurity course

    I jumped into the “Building ChatGPT Plugins: How They Work and How to Use Them

    Welcome to ChatGPT plugins” course on LinkedIn.

  • Working on learning

    I set my alarm an hour early to join a class called “Application Development with Cloud Run” which was a part of Google’s Innovators Plus: Live Learning Events. I plan on attending a few of these events, but for some reason this series of events runs very early in the morning. 

    You can see my Google Developer profile here: https://g.dev/nelslindahl 

    Apparently I have a Google Cloud profile as well here: https://googlecloud.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/ff63ebc9-8d5b-49a8-9c70-25c0c292ab73 

    “LocalGPT Updates – Tips & Tricks”

  • Small adventure Monday reactivated

    I’m getting a lot of invites for virtual events to listen to these days. For the most part, I try to place the invite on the calendar so that I remember to attend the event. Turning off all the notifications on my smartphone was an epicly good decision, but it does stop some prompts that would be useful. It does beneficially block a lot more distracting content than it surprises good content. 

    I was looking at getting a bridge SILO humbucker from Bare Knuckle pickups [1]. 

    Testing out YouTube Shorts has been interesting. The popularity window for something loaded into YouTube Shorts is mind bogglingly short. Based on the first 3 videos it seems like within a few minutes of launch it either takes off or it just fades along. 

    I’m still on the waiting list for Langflow access [2].

    Botpress was pretty easy to use. After login I clicked answer questions from websites to create a bot. I added both Civic Honors and my main Nels Lindahl domain. They just jumped in and advised me that the knowledge upload was complete. Publishing the bot is not as low friction as the Voiceflow embedding launch point, but it was not super hard to work with after you find the share button.

    I messed around with the local installation of Flowise. 

    My attention ended up moving over to learn more about LangChain in general [3].

    Footnotes:

    [1] https://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/pickup/humbucker/silo 
    [2] https://www.langflow.org/ 
    [3] https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain