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

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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. LLM and self-hosted language model plugins My biggest project was the new version of my...

I'd love to hear more opinions on generative AI from people who aren't confident writers I feel like most of the commentary I see is from people who write with confidence - almost by definition, since writing confidently is an important prerequisite for widely broadcasting your opinions on things

The thing that's surprised me most about GPT4 is how much more finely grained knowledge it has baked into it than 3/3.5 It knows the (real) addresses of restaurants in my area! You can ask for people's Twitter accounts and it often knows those - even roughly how active they are