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LLM Wiki

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.

The core idea

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.

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/*
* jQuery Mobile Framework 1.1.1 1981b3f5ec22675ae47df8f0bdf9622e7780e90e
* http://jquerymobile.com
*
* Copyright 2012 jQuery Foundation and other contributors
* Dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses.
* http://jquery.org/license
*
*/
/* Swatches */

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			/*
* jQuery Mobile Framework 1.0.1
* http://jquerymobile.com
*
* Copyright 2011-2012 (c) jQuery Project
* Dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses.
* http://jquery.org/license
*
*/

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var fax = new Dictionary<string, string>
                {
                    {"to", 8885551212},
                    {"string_data", "<div>This is your fax in html, will fax just like it renders in webkit, cool huh?</div>")},
                    {"string_data_type", "html"},
                    {"api_key", apiKey},
                    {"api_secret", apiSecret},
                    {"callback_url", "http://yourwebsite.com/fax/receipt"}
                };

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public class FaxController : Controller
{
    public void Receipt(FormCollection faxreceipt)
    {
        var direction = faxreceipt["direction"];
        var isTest = faxreceipt["is_test"];
        var faxData = faxreceipt["fax"];

        var fax = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Fax>(faxData);
        //do something w/ fax

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 [TestFixture]
 public class QuerySomeView
 {
     [Test]
     public void DoIt()
     {
         var context = new StoreContext();
         var results = context.Database.SqlQuery<ReadModel>("SELECT * FROM SomeView").ToList();
         Assert.AreEqual(results.Count(), 2);
     }

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var imports = new List<Product>();
//Load up the imports

//Pass in cnx, tablename, and list of imports
BulkInsert(context.Database.Connection.ConnectionString, "Products", imports);

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public static void BulkInsert<T>(string connection, string tableName, IList<T> list)
{
     using (var bulkCopy = new SqlBulkCopy(connection))
     {
          bulkCopy.BatchSize = list.Count;
          bulkCopy.DestinationTableName = tableName;

          var table = new DataTable();
          var props = TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(typeof(T))
                                     //Dirty hack to make sure we only have system data types