I upgraded to macOS Sequoia a few weeks ago. I had a feeling this update wasn't going to be trivial with my Nix setup, but after trying to upgrade to a newer package version on unstable, I got a message that seemed to imply I needed to upgrade the OS, so I went for it. Also, I was at least...
I added some configuration to this Hugo site allow access to the raw Markdown versions of posts. This enables you to hit URLs such as this to get the raw markdown of this post. You can find the same Raw link at the bottom of all my posts as well.
Hugo allows you to store your images with your content using a feature called page bundles. I was loosely familiar with the feature, but Claude explained to me how I could use it to better organize posts on this site and the images I add to them. Previously, I defined a static directory at the root...
I was listening to episode 34 of AI & I of Dan Shipper interviewing Simon Eskiidsen. Simon was describing one of the processes he uses with language models to learn new words and concepts. In practice, he has a prompt template that instructs the model to explain a word to him but using it in a few...
The following is the notebook I used to experiment training an image model to classify types of rowing shells (with people rowing them) and the same dataset by rowing technique (sweep vs. scull). There are a few cells that output a batch of the data. I decided not to include these because the...
I've continued experimenting with techniques to prompt a language model to solve Connections. At a high level, I set out to design an approach to hold the model to a similar standard as a human player, within the restrictions of the game. These standards and guardrails include the following: The...
I set out to do a project using my learnings from the first chapter of the fast.ai course. My first idea was to try and train a Ruby/Python classifier. ResNets are not designed to do this, but I was curious how well it would perform.
I've enjoyed using fasthtml to deploy small, easily hosted webpages for little apps I've been building. I'm still getting used to it but it almost no effort at all to deploy. Recently, I built an app that would benefit from having a loading spinner upon submitting a form, but I couldn't quite...
I revisited Eugene's excellent work, "Prompting Fundamentals and How to Apply Them Effectively". From this I learned about the ability to prefill Claude's responses. Using this technique, you can quickly get Claude to output JSON without any negotiation and avoid issues with leading codefences...
One challenge I've continued to have is figuring out how to use the models on Huggingface. There are usually Python snippets to "run" models that often seem to require GPUs and always seem to run into some sort of issues when trying to install the various Python dependencies. Today, I learned how...