👋 Hi! My name is Nikitas Kostas. I am an undegraduate of Computational Linguistics (major) and Chinese Studies (minor) at Heidelberg University, Germany. For now, this page will suffice as a personal organizating blog for my (programming) studies.

• OpenAI API documentation

  • Quickstart
  • Text to Speech

• curl, nano, sox

• Audio Data Processing in Python

• Goals for in -> STT -> TTS -> out Pipeline:

  • Socket streaming for Audio
  • Install all libraries in Pytorch
  • Read libraries' docs and understand them
  • Chat voice stream pipeline: Input -> GPT3 -> Out as Stream -> TTS -> Play Out as Stream
  • Commence study of OpenAI API documentation
  • Webscraper with OpenAI
  • Webscraper with local LLMs

• To Read|Code|Consider
  • Tool Augmented LLMs
    • PEFT
  • Mini-Bot
    • Raspberry PI Voice Assistant
  • Spiking Neural Networks + LLMs:
    • SpikeGPT Make an LLM use Neuromorphic Chips ...
    • Designing Silicon Brains using LLM: Leveraging ChatGPT for Automated Description of a Spiking Neuron Array ... and let the Neuromorphic Chip be designed by the LLM it runs on.
    • Spike-driven Transformer V2: Meta Spiking Neural Network Architecture Inspiring the Design of Next-generation Neuromorphic Chips Spoopy#
  • General Stuff
    • Interesting Papers from ICLR 2024
    • LLM Agents Workshop from ICLR 2024 (see paper list)
• Tools
  • Latex-Alternative: Typst
  • ZSH
  • POSIX
• Terms
  • scuffed - adjective. marred or scratched by scraping or hard use: He had on a worn-out old coat, workman's pants, and scuffed boots.

• Reading List

• TALLM Lecture

  • My presentation ToolLLM

• Human-Centered Planning

• Attention is all you need

• Making List

• llama-fs

• FastAPI Wikipedia link

• Project List

  • Can of Worms I - "The devil is in the details - Programming Languages"
    • Marker Interfaces
      • Design Patterns
      • Java Objects: Interface Serializable and ObjectOutputStream
      • Transient Property
      • Metadata
        • Java Annotation
      • Reflective Programming

• Can of Worms II - "Why didn't someone explain it to me earlier - Programming Architectures"

• Stack

• Software Architect

  • Software Architecture
  • List of system quality attributes
  • Non-functional requirement

• Microservices

• Monolith

• Domain-Driven-Design

• Build and Release Autonomously

• Continuous Delivery

• Serverless Computing

  • Utility Computing
    • Virtual Machine
    • Distributed Computing
    • Container
    • DevOps
  • Service-Oriented Architecture
  • Resource-Oriented Computing
  • Hexagonal Architecture
  • Mashup

• Web Framework

  • Software Stack
    • LAMP
      • Apache Webserver
        • Daemon
        • Data Validation
        • Serialization
    • Frontend / Backend
  • Web server
  • Software Repository

• Can of Worms III: "One Punch Card - APIs"

  • RESTful APIs ie. Representational state transfer
  • API
    • Interface
  • OpenAI Specification