85826576's Blog

85826576's Blog

Notes on building things — software, travel, and whatever I’m tinkering with.

Posts

  • A different way to LLM?

    · 3 min read

    I recently saw some blog post or HN comment talking about having a different way to model LLM context, not through the usual chat history or tree, but with a searchable log. When you think about LLM interactions as conversations, it makes sense to have the current tree/chat structure. But it doesn’t have to be that way. We can instead have a huge log of all the messages and conversations you had with the LLM, with the LLM querying the past on demand, loading whatever is relevant to your current question. Most likely your latest turns would be the most relevant, but a queryable log of all interactions with the LLM feels like it would be much better if you can get the execution right. Or it doesn’t even have to be all your interactions with the LLM, why not enrich the log with whatever data you want? Maybe sleep or weather data or whatever. Or you can let the LLM save some structured data to your log.

  • Mistral Ocr

    · 1 min read

    Why does mistral ocr have no good way of using it? Like why can’t I just go to their website and ocr some pdfs? I guess the world just needs a cli tool that uses it. Maybe I will let claude build a go implementation and just use that. It is really annoying. I just want markdown!

  • Layover Finder Reborn

    · 1 min read

    I was really disappointed in layover finder. Unfortunately it didn’t have any advantage over using skyscanner. But I was convinced by my coworker that I should publish this somehow. So I am looking for an application of this idea, or data, that is unique enough that it can be used. One idea is to improve this by adding more airports, so that we can find the actual optimal route. I doubt that we would find anything better than this to be honest. But flight prices fluctuate so much even during the same day, so I can’t be sure really. But it is really hard to search with actual criteria. Like I don’t want to search for 30 hour flights with 3 layover, but I am okay with the layovers being 2 days. Maybe this can solve that problem.

  • Layover Finder: Getting the data

    · 7 min read

    In my previous post I talked about a layover finder tool. Basically a tool that let’s you find cheaper flights by finding a city to have a multiple day layover in. Now I will try to actually build it. It shouldn’t be that hard right? After doing just a little bit of research, I decided to use the Amadeus api. Why? Because you need to register as a partner to use the skyscanner api, and I’m too lazy to scrape google flights manually.

  • Layover Finder: the beginning

    · 4 min read

    Airlines are weird. You would expect that a direct flight should generally be cheaper than one with a layover, especially if you want to go to the city of the layover. This is not the case. I had been thinkign about a trip to China for the last year. Usually flying to the city you want to go to is not the cheapest option. For example a direct flight from Budapest to Shenzhen is more expensive than a flight from Budapest to Xi’an with a Shenzhen layover. Even if you are boarding the same plane. You can just buy the layover ticket and act like you missed your transfer. This is called skiplagging and airlines don’t like it. There is a website called skiplagged that searches for those flights with the layover in the city you want. They get sued quite often apparently.