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Simon is an experienced developer, speaker, writer and all-round web technology…
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Here are detailed notes (as an annotated presentation) to accompany the video of a talk I gave last week on using Large Language Models on the…
Here are detailed notes (as an annotated presentation) to accompany the video of a talk I gave last week on using Large Language Models on the…
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My god, Charity Majors can write. As Simon Willison says, this “is an absolute barnstormer of an essay”. It’s less about AI, more about why hiring…
My god, Charity Majors can write. As Simon Willison says, this “is an absolute barnstormer of an essay”. It’s less about AI, more about why hiring…
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Wrote up some thoughts on the most interesting pieces of the Apple Intelligence announcements: - On-device models that can outsource to Apple’s…
Wrote up some thoughts on the most interesting pieces of the Apple Intelligence announcements: - On-device models that can outsource to Apple’s…
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Recently we were relaying some floorboards, when we found a strange packet hidden underneath one. It was an old tatty 'envelope' that said the…
Recently we were relaying some floorboards, when we found a strange packet hidden underneath one. It was an old tatty 'envelope' that said the…
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My attempt to debunk a common misconception about how LLMs work Training is not the same as chatting: ChatGPT and other LLMs don’t remember…
My attempt to debunk a common misconception about how LLMs work Training is not the same as chatting: ChatGPT and other LLMs don’t remember…
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Simon Willison's recent article resonates deeply with my views on AI in business. AI should be an assistive tool, enhancing our capabilities, not…
Simon Willison's recent article resonates deeply with my views on AI in business. AI should be an assistive tool, enhancing our capabilities, not…
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I understand people who say that AI/LLMs are laundered plagiarism, bad for society, filling the internet with slop, and harming the environment. I…
I understand people who say that AI/LLMs are laundered plagiarism, bad for society, filling the internet with slop, and harming the environment. I…
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My notes on OpenAI's new GPT-4o (the "o" is for "omni") model release. Short version: it's not a huge leap in "intelligence" over GPT-4, but the…
My notes on OpenAI's new GPT-4o (the "o" is for "omni") model release. Short version: it's not a huge leap in "intelligence" over GPT-4, but the…
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I've been back volunteering at 826 Valencia every week or two for the last few months. Shout out to everybody who makes this community so much fun:…
I've been back volunteering at 826 Valencia every week or two for the last few months. Shout out to everybody who makes this community so much fun:…
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The GPT-4 Turbo with Vision API was released to general availability today. Datasette Extract is my first product to use it - it's a plugin for…
The GPT-4 Turbo with Vision API was released to general availability today. Datasette Extract is my first product to use it - it's a plugin for…
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A 'Today I Learned' entry on LangChain. Inspired by Simon Willison's example, who I heard talking in the eye-opening 'The Zen of Python, Unix, and…
A 'Today I Learned' entry on LangChain. Inspired by Simon Willison's example, who I heard talking in the eye-opening 'The Zen of Python, Unix, and…
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Tom Scott just wrapped up an astonishing ten year streak of weekly YouTube videos. I wrote about that, and added some thoughts about the formidable…
Tom Scott just wrapped up an astonishing ten year streak of weekly YouTube videos. I wrote about that, and added some thoughts about the formidable…
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"In the past 24-36 months, our species has discovered that you can take a GIANT corpus of text, run it through a pile of GPUs, and use it to create a…
"In the past 24-36 months, our species has discovered that you can take a GIANT corpus of text, run it through a pile of GPUs, and use it to create a…
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