VLM data extraction with Protobufs
In light of OpenAI releasing structured output in the model API, let's move output structuring another level up the stack to the microservice/RPC level.
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Making Your Vision Real with Models
Using models for various different purposes daily has been a satisfying endeavor for me because they can be used as tools to help make your vision for something come to life. Models are powerful generators that can produce code, writing, images and more based on a user's description of what they...
VLMs aren't blind
I attempted to reproduce the results for one task from the VLMs are Blind paper. Specifically, Task 1: Counting line intersections. I ran 150 examples of lines generated by the code from the project with line thickness 4.
Challenges and Opportunities of the Impact of Language Models on Software Engineering
I'm trying something a bit new, writing some of my thoughts about how the future might look based on patterns I've been observing lately.
Claude Artifacts
I spent some time working with Claude Artifacts for the first time. I started with this prompt I want to see what you can do. Can you please create a 2d rendering of fluid moving around obstacles of different shapes?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Codes Really Well
One of my favorite things to do with language models is to use them to write code. I've been wanting to build a variation on tic-tac-toe involving a bit of game theory. I called it "Tactic". I wasn't even really sure if the game would be any more interesting than tic-tac-toe itself, which reliably...
Language model-based aggregators
Model-based aggregators
Learning How to Learn
I completed Barbara Oakley's "Learning How to Learn" course on Coursera. The target audience seems to be students, but I found there were helpful takeaways for me as well, as someone who is a decade out of my last university classroom.
Switching From Pocket to Raindrop for bookmarks
I've been using Pocket for a long time to keep track of things on the web that I want to read later. I save articles on my mobile or from my browser, then revisit them, usually on my desktop. Some articles I get to quickly. Others remain in the stack for a long time and can become...
Evals: unit testing for language models
Generative AI and language models are fun to play with but you don't really have something you can confidently ship to users until you test what you've built.