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title: Things I Learned - 04 Aug 2024
date: 2024-08-04T00:00:00+00:00
categories:
  - til
description: 'I discovered how assisted generation speeds up LLMs using smaller models, explored AI-powered Advanced Paste in PowerToys, and investigated Turing complete systems like Magic: The Gathering. I also checked Rev.ai for cost-effective audio diarization.'
keywords: [assisted generation, powertoys, turing completeness, rev.ai, diarization, speculative decoding]
---

This week, I learned:

- [Assisted generation](https://huggingface.co/blog/assisted-generation) uses a faster LLM to generate text and a better (tokenizer-compatible) LLM to validate it. This makes it faster. E.g. [Gemma 2 2b with Gemma 2 27b](https://huggingface.co/blog/gemma-july-update)
- Power Toys has an Advanced Paste that uses OpenAI to paste as Markdown or JSON!
- Interest Turing complete languages:
  - [find + mkdir](https://ogiekako.vercel.app/blog/find_mkdir_tc), maybe
  - sed and awk
  - Minecraft's Redstone Circuits
  - Conway's Game of Life
  - [Cellular Automata Rule 110](https://conwaylife.com/wiki/OCA:Rule_110)
  - Magic: The Gathering
  - SQL
  - Excel
- [Rev.ai](https://rev.ai/) does a good job of diarization. Cost: 2 cents per minute. Update: 6 Jun 2025. Cost: 0.33c/min [Ref](https://www.rev.ai/pricing)