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Monday, 1st August 2022

TIL Related content with SQLite FTS and a Datasette template function — Today I added "related TILs" to this TIL website - so each TIL now shows five related TILs at the bottom of the page.
Release s3-credentials 0.12.1 — A tool for creating credentials for accessing S3 buckets

storysniffer (via) Ben Welsh built a small Python library that guesses if a URL points to an article on a news website, or if it’s more likely to be a category page or /about page or similar. I really like this as an example of what you can do with a tiny machine learning model: the model is bundled as a ~3MB pickle file as part of the package, and the repository includes the Jupyter notebook that was used to train it.

# 11:40 pm / machine-learning, python, jupyter, ben-welsh

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