Learn and Do with Peter Notes, 2024-05-03

Next Steps

• invite Sam as a guest for Learn and Do, to show us a lot more about local LLMs and Stable Diffusion
  • Sam has a lot of experience using local LLMs https://aisalon.mn.co/members/20289704 Samuel Tagliabracci (pronounced with silent "g")
  • Saturdays might be good for Sam except not at 11 AM ET

Previous notes

• Learn and Do with Peter Notes, 2024-04-26
• Learn and Do with Peter Notes, 2024-04-25
• Learn and Do with Peter Notes, 2024-04-17
  • Pete's Goals for LLM Users

Random Notes

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• Kenneth's Preferred Agenda Items
  • Obsidian I have been using .txt format for saving information between sessions and a quick glance at Obsidian shows it too be a great alternative, at least in possibility
  • I have been looking for a text-to-plot and text-to-story tool, esp. freemium

Living Agenda

• 0h 0m, Check-ins, Questions, Comments, Ideas
• 0h 20m, Text to Story
• 0h 42m, Language Models and Language Model Managers
• 1h 8m, Password Managers
• Landing Page Development
  • professional email, DNS setup
• Making a Header Image for Mighty Networks
• AI Futures GPT project
• New Jankifiers
• Coding with LLMs
• Obsidian as a writing tool
  • ChatGPT Exporter

Password Managers

Requirements:

• different passwords for each system
• creating random passwords
• secure FOR YOUR SITUATION
  • encrypted (?)
• shareable / delegatable to people who might need it
  • in case of incapacity or death
• who takes responsibility in the event of a breach

Nice to have:

• data structure (username, password, one-time password, URL)
• shared among devices
• shared certain passwords with other people (like in a business)
• simple, same interface all the time for keeping any kinds of secret

Password managers Pete trusts:

• 1Password
• Bitwarden
• KeePass (with caveats)

(but I don't use browser plugins for auto logins)

Up and coming:

• Proton Pass

Probably Okay:

• your OS or cloud platform, especially Apple or Google
• your browser, if it's a top-3 browser

Let's talk about:

• pieces of paper
• an offline spreadsheet
• notes app on your phone
• Clipperz
• Add USB Encrypted Drive with passwords, password manager, or second-tier line-item encryption (public-private key)

Don't use:

• LastPass

Resources

• Bruce Schneier's Security Analysis model
  • https://chat.openai.com/share/4672f5df-8345-4db5-85d3-e3e4fb060c91
  • https://g.co/gemini/share/729c395affeb
• XKCD Password Strength comic: https://xkcd.com/936/

Glossary

• encrypted at rest
• encrypted locally
• attack surface
• social engineering

Text to Story

• reviewing LLM and model managers
• GOAT-Storytelling-Agent - Arbitrarily Long Story Writing Agent

Language Models and Language Model Managers

• LM Studio - Discover, download, and run local LLMs
• Jan - Interface to and manage local and remote LLMs; local OpenAI-compatible API endpoint
• GPT4All - A free-to-use, locally running, privacy-aware chatbot. No GPU or internet required.
• ollama with a web front end
• Willison's llm, but command-line only

Check-ins, Questions, Comments, Ideas

• prosopagnosia

New Jankifiers

• Emojify_It.html
• Janky Colors.html
• TextCooler.html
• TextObfuscator.html
• TextProcessor.html
• Text_Encryptor.html
• Text_Transformer_More_Less.html
• Word Lengthifier.html

Random Notes

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