Stories by simonw

Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment

ChatGPT can’t access the internet, even though it looks like it can

I promise ChatGPT can’t access the internet, even though it looks like it can

In Defense of Prompt Engineering

AI chatbot “Sidney” is misbehaving – Nov 23 2022 Microsoft community thread

Analytics: Hacker News v.s. a tweet from Elon Musk

Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”

Making SQLite extensions pip install-able

Exploring MusicCaps, the training data behind Google’s MusicLM text2music model

Semantic search answers: Q&A against documentation with GPT3+OpenAI embeddings

Querying the GitHub archive with the ClickHouse playground

Datasette 1.0a2: Upserts and finely grained permissions

A new AI game: Give me ideas for crimes to do

Datasette’s new JSON write API: The first alpha of Datasette 1.0

Increased productivity on personal projects with comprehensive docs and tests

GitHub Pages: The Missing Manual

Measuring Traffic During the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival

Ask HN: Best examples of end-user facing documentation

Is the AI spell-casting metaphor harmful or helpful?

Exploring 10M scraped Shutterstock videos used to train Meta’s Make-A-Video

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