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Building a Personal Knowledge Engine with Jupyter and Local LLMs

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 02:24:05 +0330

Move beyond prompt engineering by combining Jupyter Notebooks with local LLMs to build a powerful personal knowledge engine.

Jupyter, ChatGPT, Copilot (Part 3): Real-World Code Examples

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 02:26:48 +0330

Concrete scenarios where Jupyter notebooks outperform traditional IDEs for senior engineers, including API exploration and performance audits.

Jupyter, ChatGPT, Copilot (Part 2): The Technical Guide to Jupyter Setup

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 02:00:00 +0330

A professional guide to setting up Jupyter for software engineers, covering installation, environment management, and version control.

Jupyter, ChatGPT, Copilot (Part 1): The Strategic Value of Thinking in Notebooks

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 01:09:51 +0330

Explore the conceptual and strategic role of Project Jupyter alongside ChatGPT and Copilot in modern development workflows.

Steve Ballmer Sells $1.3 Billion Worth of Microsoft Shares

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 15:43:00 +0000

Mashable: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has sold 12% of his stake in the tech giant in a transaction worth over $1.3 billion.

According to a filing with the SEC, Ballmer has sold 49.3 million Microsoft shares over the last three days, bringing his total ownership to 358.9 million shares, or approximately 4.2% of the company. Essentially, he sold 12% of his shares at a price between $26 and $28.

Knowing that the media would notice such a large transaction, Ballmer posted a statement on Microsoft’s website, saying that he sold $1.3 billion in Microsoft shares for financial diversification and tax planning.

Steve Ballmer talks Bing, Google, Xbox and Windows Phone

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:43:00 +0000

For anyone that missed Microsoft CEO’s Q&A during the Search Marketing Expo West yesterday, a transcript is now available online. I went through and picked out key quotes, so that you don’t have to read the whole thing.

Several things stand out from Ballmer’s comments:

Mobile operators that want a search engine other than Bing can’t have Windows Phone 7 Series.
Microsoft almost certainly is stirring up trouble for Google in Europe through third parties.
Microsoft isn’t interested — at least for now — in releasing a Bing application for Android phones.
A Bing for iPhone search deal is still possible, simply because Ballmer deflected the question rather than denying it.
Twitter is a great Microsoft partner, but the value of an acquisition is “not clear.”

My favorite quote from the Q&A: “I haven’t found that when you’re trying to sell something to somebody yelling is very effective.” How funny is that. coming from boisterous Ballmer?