TIL: Downloading partial YouTube videos with ffmpeg

Downloading partial YouTube videos with ffmpeg

I spoke at WordCamp US 2023 , and wanted to grab a copy of the video of my talk. I always try to keep my own copies of these because I've seen some...

Today in offensively stupid uses of GPT-4... What was the beef between the two families in Romeo and Juliet? Answer in a style that is designed to appeal to the youth. ... Continue, but invent an explanation for why the two families are beefing ... Write a scene for the play explaining that background and make it both Shakespearean and dope

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Just sent out my latest Substack newsletter -

Datasette Cloud, Datasette 1.0a3, llm-mlc and more

Plus a tool for building annotated presentations, ChatGPT-generated, prompts included

- and it genuinely took me less than a minute to compose and send it Copy and paste is the most under-rated API! Here's how my newsletter flow works:

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Semi-automating a Substack newsletter with an Observable notebook

I recently started sending out a weekly-ish email newsletter consisting of content from my blog. I’ve mostly automated that, using an Observable ...

- all of the work is done by this Observable Notebook:

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Blog to newsletter

TODO before next send: code to replace lite-youtube tags with iframes that work in Substack I've started a newsletter at simonw.substack.com which ...

New trick for my TIL website: the "related content" at the bottom of each TIL is now powered by OpenAI embeddings. I wrote a new TIL describing how that works (using new features of my openai-to-sqlite tool):

Storing and serving related documents with openai-to-sqlite and embeddings

I decide to upgrade the related articles feature on my TILs site. Previously I calculated these using full-text search , but I wanted to try out a ...

Answered a question on Hacker News about using ChatGPT for programming tasks with a bunch of my own examples...

Ask HN: Burnout because of ChatGPT? | Hacker News

Comments so far include "If someone on my team was doing things this unusually they’d probably be let go" and "sorry but these examples are not impressive at all and by no means a representative of any serious programmer's workload" A lot of people out there are absolutely determined not to take the practical utility of this stuff seriously!

Anyone got thoughts on good backup strategies for data where the only copy is in an S3 bucket? I worry about things like catastrophic billing failures or some weird ML algorithm deciding to ban an AWS account for some reason Backup to a separate account in another region? Mirror bucket contents to a server on another hosting provider?

New release of my llm-mlc plugin for

LLM: A CLI utility and Python library for interacting with Large Language Models

- this plugin allows you to run large language models like Llama 2 using the MLC Python library, which means you get GPU acceleration on M1/M2 Macs!

GitHub

Release 0.4 · simonw/llm-mlc

The llm mlc download-model command now takes zero or more optional -a/--alias options to configure aliases for the model once it has been installed...

Maybe a better way to think about release notes is that they should read (and be written) like blog entries - each one is a chance to both update the users on the latest news about the project and promote that project to people who haven't discovered it yet

New release of LLM, my CLI tool and Python library for interacting with Large Language Models The main new feature is the ability to assign new aliases to models, useful for dealing with things like "mlc-chat-Llama-2-7b-chat-hf-q4f16_1"

Changelog - LLM

This TIL shows my workflow using ChatGPT - it includes prompts and process I used to quickly build a tool in Bash and jq for combining release notes from a GitHub repo, and shows how I then pipe those release notes to "llm" to answer questions about them

Combined release notes from GitHub with jq and paginate-json

Matt Holt asked :

Today I learned that if you set the system prompt in Llama 2 7B to "You are sarcastic and mean" it adds *sarcasm* and *eyeroll* to every other sentence (Wrote a new plugin for LLM, this time using MLC which can run Llama 2 GPU-accelerated on M1/M2

GitHub

GitHub - simonw/llm-mlc: LLM plugin for running models using MLC

LLM plugin for running models using MLC. Contribute to simonw/llm-mlc development by creating an account on GitHub.

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New plugin for sqlite-utils: sqlite-utils-jq, which adds a jq(document, expression) function for running JQ inside of SQL queries

GitHub

GitHub - simonw/sqlite-utils-jq: Plugin adding a jq() SQL function to sqlite-utils

Plugin adding a jq() SQL function to sqlite-utils. Contribute to simonw/sqlite-utils-jq development by creating an account on GitHub.

Put together some notes on my latest explorations of Justine Tunney's Cosmopolitan / APE / redbean ecosystem

Catching up with the Cosmopolitan ecosystem

I caught up with some of the latest developments in the ecosystem around Justine Tunney's cosmopolitan and Actually Portable Executable (APE) proje...

New TIL: Running a Django and PostgreSQL development environment in GitHub Codespaces

Running a Django and PostgreSQL development environment in GitHub Codespaces

Helping people setup development environments (and fix them when they break) can be incredibly frustrating. I'm really excited about cloud-based de...

Can't say I'm wildly keen on the new Google Maps marker design - they've added a thicker white border, so now my map is mostly white borders