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June 2023

70 posts: 5 entries, 18 links, 6 quotes, 38 beats, 3 newsletters

Tuesday, 27th June 2023

Weeknotes: symbex, LLM prompt templates, a bit of a break

I had a holiday to the UK for a family wedding anniversary and mostly took the time off... except for building symbex, which became one of those projects that kept on inspiring new features.

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4:30 pm / projects, ai, weeknotes, generative-ai, llms, symbex, llm
Release strip-tags 0.5 — CLI tool for stripping tags from HTML
27th Jun 2023, 8:28 pm

Wednesday, 28th June 2023

Release datasette-upload-csvs 0.8.3 — Datasette plugin for uploading CSV files and converting them to database tables
28th Jun 2023, 1:25 am · datasette

Thursday, 29th June 2023

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TIL CLI tools hidden in the Python standard library — Seth Michael Larson [pointed out](https://twitter.com/sethmlarson/status/1674141676325990400) that the Python `gzip` module can be used as a CLI tool like this:
29th Jun 2023, 12:16 am

abacaj/mpt-30B-inference. MPT-30B, released last week, is an extremely capable Apache 2 licensed open source language model. This repo shows how it can be run on a CPU, using the ctransformers Python library based on GGML. Following the instructions in the README got me a working MPT-30B model on my M2 MacBook Pro. The model is a 19GB download and it takes a few seconds to start spitting out tokens, but it works as advertised.

# 3:27 am / open-source, ai, generative-ai, local-llms, llms, llm-release

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TIL Bulk editing status in GitHub Projects — GitHub Projects has a mechanism for bulk updating the status of items, but it's pretty difficult to figure out how to do it.
29th Jun 2023, 5:22 pm
Release symbex 1.0 — Find the Python code for specified symbols
29th Jun 2023, 6:31 pm

Friday, 30th June 2023

Databricks Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire MosaicML, a Leading Generative AI Platform. MosaicML are the team behind MPT-7B and MPT-30B, two of the most impressive openly licensed LLMs. They just got acquired by Databricks for $1.3 billion dollars.

# 1:43 am / open-source, ai, generative-ai, local-llms, llms

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TIL A Discord bot to expand issue links to a private GitHub repository — I have a private Discord channel and a private GitHub repository.
30th Jun 2023, 5:19 am
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TIL Local wildcard DNS on macOS with dnsmasq — I wanted to get wildcard DNS running on my Mac laptop, for development purposes. I wanted `http://anything.mysite.lan/` to point to my localhost IP address.
30th Jun 2023, 12:51 pm

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