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I use the jq language quite a lot these days, mainly because I can get ChatGPT to write little JSON transformation programs for me very quickly. …
I just spent way too long messing around with ChatGPT (transcript here) trying to figure this out. After much iteration, here's a recipe that works (mostly written by me at this point): …
pickapic.io is a new tool funded by stability.ai which asks people to generate and then vote on images in order to provide data to be used for fine tuning an open source image generation model. …
A popular nightmare scenario for AI is giving it access to tools, so it can make API calls and execute its own code and generally break free of the constraints of its initial environment. …
Today I built a system for monitoring Reddit for new posts that link to various domains that I own. …
Hacker News displays comments in a tree. This can be frustrating if you want to keep track of a particular conversation, as you constantly have to seek through the tree to find the latest comment. …
I've been experimenting with a tool for generating the content for a weekly Substack newsletter by querying the Datasette API for my blog and assembling HTML for the last week of content. …
See also: Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment right now. …
Inspired by Brad Neuberg I decided to take a look at the SQL features in the GDAL family of tools. …
I found a killer application for ChatGPT today: writing AppleScript! …
For apple-notes-to-sqlite I needed to write some tests that simulated executing the osascript command using the Python subprocess module. …
OpenAI released an API for ChatGPT yesterday. It's 1/10th of the price of the text-davinci-003 model! …
I wanted to convert some .webp images to .png on my Mac. I asked ChatGPT: …
This is a follow-up to Running nanoGPT on a MacBook M2 to generate terrible Shakespeare. …
I figured out a single SQL query for the following today. Given a table of GitHub repositories, for each repository return: …
I was using the Apache Bench ab command to exercise some new code I'm writing in Datasette and I noticed I was getting a lot of errors: …
I stumbled across an interesting little detail of SQLite today, running the following query: …
Twitter announced today that they'll be ending free API access for bots. …
I've been trying to figure this out for ages. Tim Bart responded to my call for help on Hacker News with this extremely useful code example showing how to run Python code in WebAssembly inside Python, using wasmtime-py and the new Python WASM build released by VMware Wasm Labs. …
nanoGPT is Andrej Karpathy's "simplest, fastest repository for training/finetuning medium-sized GPTs". …
I've long wanted to run some kind of large language model on my own computer. Now that I have a M2 MacBook Pro I'm even more keen to find interesting ways to keep all of those CPU cores busy. …
This TIL adapted from a Gist I put together in 2019, before I started tracking TILs here. …
Here's how to use SQLite's VALUES syntax with a CTE to create a temporary table that you can then perform joins against in a query: …
I ran into this error while trying to run pip install lxml on an M2 Mac, inside a virtual environment I had intitially created using pipenv shell: …
The SQLite pragma_function_list() table-valued function returns a list of functions that have been registered with SQLite, including functions that were added by extensions. …
I decided to make a GitHub repository public today that had previously been private. Unfortunately the revision history of that repository included some secret values, one of which I could not figure out a way to revoke. …
I wanted to upgrade my git-history installation to a new alpha version. …
Sky News in partnership with Tortoise published a fantastic piece of investigative data reporting: the Westminster Accounts, a database of money in UK politics that brought together data from three different sources and make it explorable. …
I finally found a workaround for this error when attempting to load a SQLite extension in Python on macOS: …
I noticed this morning that one of my Datasette installations had the Geopoly SQLite extension enabled. I don't know how it got there - it has to be compiled specifically - but since it was there I decided to try it out. …