Simon Willison’s Weblog

21st March 2023

TIL Use DuckDB to convert parquet to JSON and then open it in Datasette Lite — [pickapic.io](https://pickapic.io/) is a new tool funded by [stability.ai](https://stability.ai/) which asks people to generate and then vote on images in order to provide data to be used for fine tuning an open source image generation model.

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Posted 21st March 2023 at 10:49 pm

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