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?
Thought Eddies
Temporal Parallel Child Workflows
Temporal provides helpful primitives called Workflows and Activities for orchestrating processes. A common pattern I've found useful is the ability to run multiple "child workflows" in parallel from a single "parent" workflow.
Multi-Modal Models with ollama
I spent some time experimenting with multi-modal model (also called vision models on the ollama site) to see how they perform. You try these out with the CLI ollama run <model> but I opted to use the ollama Python client.
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.
Summarizing webpages with language models
Similar to (and perhaps more simply than) analyzing Youtube video transcripts with language models, I wanted to apply a similar approach to webpages like articles, primarily for the purposes of determining the subject content of lengthy pieces and experimenting to see if this is useful at all.
Summarizing Youtube video transcripts with language models
You can download a Youtube video transcript with yt-dlp.