Language model-based aggregators
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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.
Language Model Streaming With SSE
OpenAI popularized a pattern of streaming results from a backend API in realtime with ChatGPT. This approach is useful because the time a language model takes to run inference is often longer than what you want for an API call to feel snappy and fast. By streaming the results as they're produced,...
Sandboxed Python Environment
Disclaimer: I am not a security expert or a security professional.
Fine-tuning gpt-3.5-turbo to learn to play "Connections"
I started playing the NYTimes word game "Connections" recently, by the recommendation of a few friends. It has the type of freshness that Wordle lost for me a long time ago. After playing Connections for a few days, I wondered if an OpenAI language model could solve the game (the objective is to...
2023 Review
End of year review
At the beginning of 2023, I set some goals for myself. Here are those goals and how the year turned out.
Embracing Failure in Software Development
Exploring the Importance of Embracing Failure in Software Development and the Value of Learning from Mistakes
To write software is to experience constant failure until you get a success. When you start learning to write code, very little works, especially on your first try. You make a lot of mistakes. Maybe you copied example code to get started, then modify it to try and do something new. Reading errors...
Promptfoo and standardizing output structure across models
promptfoo is a Javascript library and CLI for testing and evaluating LLM output quality. It's straightforward to install and get up and running quickly. As a first experiment, I've used it to compare the output of three similar prompts that specify their output structure using different modes of...