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Release symbex 0.3.2 — Find the Python code for specified symbols
Release symbex 0.3.1 — Find the Python code for specified symbols
Release symbex 0.3 — Find the Python code for specified symbols
Release symbex 0.2.1 — Find the Python code for specified symbols
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TIL Using ChatGPT Browse to name a Python package — I needed a name for my new Python CLI tool.
Release symbex 0.2 — Find the Python code for specified symbols
Release symbex 0.1.2 — Find the Python code for specified symbols
Release symbex 0.1.1 — Find the Python code for specified symbols
Release symbex 0.1 — Find the Python code for specified symbols
Sighting 12:37 PM — Crowned Aeolis, in Wembury BioBlitz Area, England, GB
Crowned Aeolis
Crowned Aeolis
Release strip-tags 0.4.1 — CLI tool for stripping tags from HTML
Release strip-tags 0.4 — CLI tool for stripping tags from HTML
Release llm 0.4.1 — Access large language models from the command-line
Sighting 2:19 PM — Indian Peafowl, in Devon, England, GB
Indian Peafowl
Indian Peafowl
Release llm 0.4 — Access large language models from the command-line
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TIL Syncing slide images and audio in iMovie — I found an MP3 recording of an old talk I gave and decided to use the slides from that talk to create a video using iMovie.
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TIL Using fs_usage to see what files a process is using — Today I wanted to figure out where the `vercel` CLI tool on my Mac kept its authentication tokens.
Release datasette-render-images 0.4 — Datasette plugin that renders binary blob images using data-uris
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TIL Running OpenAI's large context models using llm — OpenAI [announced new models](https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updates) today. Of particular interest to me is the new `gpt-3.5-turbo-16k` model, which provides GPT 3.5 with a 16,000 token context window (up from 4,000) priced at 1/10th of GPT-4 - $0.003 per 1K input tokens and $0.004 per 1K output tokens.
Sighting 1:00 PM — Eurasian Magpie, in Torbay, England, GB
Eurasian Magpie
Eurasian Magpie
Sighting 2:21 PM — Little Egret, in Devon, England, GB
Little Egret
Little Egret
Sighting 12:03 PM — Snow × Bar-headed Goose, in Devon, England, GB
Snow × Bar-headed Goose
Snow × Bar-headed Goose
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TIL Consecutive groups in SQL using window functions — I have a database table with all of my Swarm checkins since 2011, created using my [swarm-to-sqlite](https://datasette.io/tools/swarm-to-sqlite) tool.
Sighting 11:20 AM – 12:50 PM — Peregrine Falcon, Humpback Whale, Western Sheep Moth, in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, CA, US, CA
Peregrine Falcon
Peregrine Falcon
Humpback Whale
Humpback Whale
Western Sheep Moth
Western Sheep Moth
Release datasette-sqlite-url-lite 0.1 — A pure Python alternative to sqlite-url ready to be used in Datasette Lite
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TIL Testing the Access-Control-Max-Age CORS header — Today I noticed that [Datasette](https://datasette.io/) wasn't serving a `Access-Control-Max-Age` header.
Sighting 9:20 PM — Common Raccoon, in Eastern Golden Gate Park, CA, US
Common Raccoon
Common Raccoon
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TIL Comparing two training datasets using sqlite-utils — [WizardLM](https://github.com/nlpxucan/WizardLM) is "an Instruction-following LLM Using Evol-Instruct". It's a fine-tuned model on top of Meta's LLaMA. The fine-tuning uses 70,000 instruction-output pairs from this JSON file:
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TIL mlc-chat - RedPajama-INCITE-Chat-3B on macOS — MLC (Machine Learning Compilation) on May 22nd 2023: [Bringing Open Large Language Models to Consumer Devices](https://mlc.ai/blog/2023/05/22/bringing-open-large-language-models-to-consumer-devices)
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TIL hexdump and hexdump -C — While exploring null bytes in [this issue](https://github.com/simonw/ttok/issues/3) I learned that the `hexdump` command on macOS (and presumably other Unix systems) has a confusing default output.