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Three major LLM releases in 24 hours (plus weeknotes)

I’m a bit behind on my weeknotes, so there’s a lot to cover here. But first... a review of the last 24 hours of Large Language Model news. All times are in US Pacific on April 9th 2024.

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5:09 am / 10th April 2024 / projects, ai, weeknotes, datasettecloud, openai, generativeai, llms, gemini

Weeknotes: the Datasette Cloud API, a podcast appearance and more

Datasette Cloud now has a documented API, plus a podcast appearance, some LLM plugins work and some geospatial excitement.

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12:03 am / 1st October 2023 / journalism, projects, sqlite, ai, datasette, weeknotes, datasettecloud, alexgarcia, generativeai, llms, llm

Weeknotes: Self-hosted language models with LLM plugins, a new Datasette tutorial, a dozen package releases, a dozen TILs

A lot of stuff to cover from the past two and a half weeks.

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5:55 am / 16th July 2023 / plugins, projects, tutorials, ai, datasette, weeknotes, sqliteutils, generativeai, homebrewllms, llms, symbex, llm

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 / 27th June 2023 / projects, ai, weeknotes, generativeai, llms, symbex, llm

Weeknotes: Parquet in Datasette Lite, various talks, more LLM hacking

I’ve fallen a bit behind on my weeknotes. Here’s a catchup for the last few weeks.

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9:14 pm / 4th June 2023 / projects, speaking, tutorials, datasette, parquet, weeknotes, datasettelite, llms

Weeknotes: A new llm CLI tool, plus automating my weeknotes and newsletter

I started publishing weeknotes in 2019 partly as a way to hold myself accountable but mainly as a way to encourage myself to write more.

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11:28 pm / 4th April 2023 / projects, datasette, observable, weeknotes, llms, llm

Weeknotes: AI won’t slow down, a new newsletter and a huge Datasette refactor

I’m a few weeks behind on my weeknotes, but it’s not through lack of attention to my blog. AI just keeps getting weirder and more interesting.

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11:47 pm / 22nd March 2023 / projects, ai, datasette, weeknotes, generativeai, llms

Weeknotes: NICAR, and an appearance on KQED Forum

I spent most of this week at NICAR 2023, the data journalism conference hosted this year in Nashville, Tennessee.

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10:46 pm / 7th March 2023 / bing, datajournalism, media, radio, ai, weeknotes, generativeai, chatgpt, whisper, llms, nicar

Thoughts and impressions of AI-assisted search from Bing

It’s been a wild couple of weeks.

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7:56 pm / 24th February 2023 / bing, ethics, ai, weeknotes, generativeai, llms

Weeknotes: AI hacking and a SpatiaLite tutorial

Short weeknotes this time because the key things I worked on have already been covered here:

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7:45 pm / 15th January 2023 / spatialite, ai, datasette, weeknotes, gpt3, openai, generativeai, vectorsearch, llms

Weeknotes: Datasette Cloud ready to preview

I made an absolute ton of progress building Datasette Cloud on Fly this week, and also had a bunch of fun playing with GPT-3.

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1 am / 7th June 2022 / projects, datasette, weeknotes, datasettecloud, fly, gpt3, llms

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