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Extracting Data from PDF Files

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Sometimes, a PDF file is corrupted or encrypted making it hard to extract data from it directly. In this case, you can convert a PDF page to an image first and …

The ripgrep Command Is a Better Alternative to the find Command

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Installation on Debian/Ubuntu Based Linux Distributions

wajig install ripgrep 

Installation on macOS

brew install ripgrep 

List Files

There are 2 ways to list files using ripgrep. The first way is file name (globbing pattern) based and the second way is file content (regex pattern) based.

Prompt Engineering for LLM Tools

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Tips and Traps

  1. set temporature

  2. give some examples

  3. leverage built tools provided by LLM products. For example, Google AI Studio provides tools

    • grounding with google search, etc.
  4. A single comprehensive prompt …

Tips on Google Gemini CLI

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Tips & Traps

  1. Gemini CLI is extremely useful as it doesn't requires your favorite IDE to have integration with LLM tools. You can use whichever IDE you like. What you need is …

Tips on Large Language Models

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