Wednesday, 26th July 2023
TIL
Protocols in Python
— [Datasette](https://datasette.io/) currently has a few API internals that return `sqlite3.Row` objects. I was thinking about how this might work in the future - if Datasette ever expands beyond SQLite (plugin-provided backends for PostgreSQL and DuckDB for example) I'd want a way to return data from other stores using objects that behave like `sqlite3.Row` but are not exactly that class.
Much of the substance of what constitutes “government” is in fact text. A technology that can do orders of magnitude more with text is therefore potentially massively impactful here. [...] Many of the sub-tasks of the work of delivering public benefits seem amenable to the application of large language models to help people do this hard work.