A pattern for building personal knowledge bases using LLMs.

This is an idea file, it is designed to be copy pasted to your own LLM Agent (e.g. OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode / Pi, or etc.). Its goal is to communicate the high level idea, but your agent will build out the specifics in collaboration with you.

Most people's experience with LLMs and documents looks like RAG: you upload a collection of files, the LLM retrieves relevant chunks at query time, and generates an answer. This works, but the LLM is rediscovering knowledge from scratch on every question. There's no accumulation. Ask a subtle question that requires synthesizing five documents, and the LLM has to find and piece together the relevant fragments every time. Nothing is built up. NotebookLM, ChatGPT file uploads, and most RAG systems work this way.

• https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-4.5.x/current/tutorial/html/connmgmt.html

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44821561/how-to-set-proxy-host-on-httpclient-request-in-java

Thread pools on the JVM should usually be divided into the following three categories:

1. CPU-bound
2. Blocking IO
3. Non-blocking IO polling

Each of these categories has a different optimal configuration and usage pattern.

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A function is a mapping from one set, called a domain, to another set, called the codomain. A function associates every element in the domain with exactly one element in the codomain. In Scala, both domain and codomain are types.

val square : Int => Int = x => x * x

Typically, you can't use a 'new' operator on a generic type. This is because of type erasure.

scala> def create[T] = new T
<console>:7: error: class type required but T found
   def create[T] = new T
                       ^

Scala gives a way of getting around this problem, with the Manifest class.

scala> def create[T](implicit m:Manifest[T]) = m.erasure.newInstance

• ^ as XOR operator
• & is AND operator
• | is OR operator
• && and || are short-circuit operators.

• 2's complement represent negative number x as its (abs(x) - 1) binary format, then flip each 0 and 1 bit.

Currently considering https://github.com/webdriverio/webdrivercss

Core Goals:

• Can test in up-to-date versions of all major browsers
• Can test on up-to-date versions of all major OSes
• Can test in IE9 (because Bootstrap v4 will support IE9+)
• Don't want to have to setup/maintain our own cluster of VMs running all the necessary OSes (and all the versions of Windows)
• Workflow for management of reference/baseline/norm screenshots