Conversation Branching
Language models are more than chatbots - they're tools for thought. The real value lies in using them as intellectual sounding boards to brainstorm, refine and challenge our ideas.
Thought Eddies
Add Alt Text to an Image with an LLM and Cursor
Using Cursor, we can easily get a first pass at creating alt text for an image using a language model. It's quite straightforward using a multi-modal model/prompt. For this example, we'll use claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022.
Practical Deep Learning, Lesson 5, Pricing Iowa Houses with Random Forests
Having completed lesson 5 of the FastAI course, I prompted Claude to give me some good datasets upon which to train a random forest model. This housing dataset from Kaggle seemed like a nice option, so I decided to give it a try. I am also going to try something that Jeremy Howard recommended for...
Practical Deep Learning, Lesson 4, Language Model Blog Post Imitator
In this notebook/post, we're going to be using the markdown content from my blog to try a language model. From this, we'll attempt to prompt the model to generate a post for a topic I might write about.
Models Writing About Coding With Models
I recently found Joe's article, We All Know AI Can’t Code, Right?.
Language model random number generator
I had the idea to try and use a language model as a random number generator. I didn't expect it to actually work as a uniform random number generator but was curious to see what the distribution of numbers would look like.
Practical Deep Learning, Lesson 3, Stochastic Gradient Descent on the Titanic Dataset
In this notebook, we train two similar neural nets on the classic Titanic dataset using techniques from fastbook chapter 1 and chapter 4.
Accessing direnv environment variables in a Jupyter notebook
I use direnv to manage my shell environment for projects. When using a Jupyter notebook within a project, I realized that the environment variables in my .envrc file were not being made available to my notebooks. The following worked for me as a low-effort way to load my environment into the...
Fixing Nix When Upgrading To macOS Sequoia
I upgraded to macOS Sequoia a few weeks ago. I had a feeling this update wasn't going to be trivial with my Nix setup, but after trying to upgrade to a newer package version on unstable, I got a message that seemed to imply I needed to upgrade the OS, so I went for it. Also, I was at least...
Raw Markdown Pages
I added some configuration to this Hugo site allow access to the raw Markdown versions of posts. This enables you to hit URLs such as this to get the raw markdown of this post. You can find the same Raw link at the bottom of all my posts as well.