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Entries in Jul, 2022

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Weeknotes: Joining the board of the Python Software Foundation

A few weeks ago I was elected to the board of directors for the Python Software Foundation.

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7:02 pm / 30th July 2022 / python, sqlite, datasette, weeknotes, sqliteutils, datasettelite, psf

Weeknotes: Datasette, sqlite-utils, Datasette Desktop

A flurry of releases this week, including a new Datasette alpha and a fixed Datasette Desktop.

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11:13 pm / 20th July 2022 / datasette, weeknotes, datasettecloud, sqliteutils, annotatedreleasenotes, datasettedesktop

sqlite-comprehend: run AWS entity extraction against content in a SQLite database

I built a new tool this week: sqlite-comprehend, which passes text from a SQLite database through the AWS Comprehend entity extraction service and stores the returned entities.

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9:31 pm / 11th July 2022 / aws, git, github, projects, sqlite, datasette, weeknotes

Using GPT-3 to explain how code works

One of my favourite uses for the GPT-3 AI language model is generating explanations of how code works. It’s shockingly effective at this: its training set clearly include a vast amount of source code.

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3:19 pm / 9th July 2022 / ai, gpt3, openai, promptengineering, generativeai, llms

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