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I enjoyed reading Yuxuan's article on whether Github Copilot increased their productivity. I personally don't love Copilot but enjoy using other AI-assisted software tools like Cursor, which allow...
I read this post by Steph today and loved it. I want to try writing this concisely. I imagine it takes significant effort but the result are beautiful, satisfying and valuable. It's a privilege to...
Having gotten more into using llama 7b and 30b lately, this take seems likes it could hold water. Model inference still isn't free when you scale a consumer app. Maybe I can use llama3 for all my...
I read Jason, Ivan and Charles' blog post on Modal about fine tuning an embedding model. It's a bit in the weeds of ML for me but I learn a bit more every time I read something new.
I played around with trying to run a Temporal worker on Modal. I didn't do a ton of research upfront -- I just kind of gave it a shot. I suspect this isn't possible. Both use Python magic to do the...
I read this interesting article by Gajus about finetuning gpt-3.5-turbo. It was quite similar to my experience fine tuning a model to play Connections. A helpful takeaway was that after finetuning...
About a month ago, I had been looking into creating a NL to SQL plugin for datasette. Simon release a version of exactly that the next day and I came across it in his article here. Hopefully I can...
I did a refactor of my nix config following a pattern I learned from reading Davis' setup. My two main uses right now for Nix/home-manager are to install and configure programs. Some of these...
For me, invoking a language model using a playground (UI) interface is the most common approach for my usage. Occasionally, it can be helpful to use the a CLI to directly pipe output into a...