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Sighting 9:20 PM — Common Raccoon, in Eastern Golden Gate Park, CA, US
Common Raccoon
Common Raccoon
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TIL Comparing two training datasets using sqlite-utils — [WizardLM](https://github.com/nlpxucan/WizardLM) is "an Instruction-following LLM Using Evol-Instruct". It's a fine-tuned model on top of Meta's LLaMA. The fine-tuning uses 70,000 instruction-output pairs from this JSON file:
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TIL mlc-chat - RedPajama-INCITE-Chat-3B on macOS — MLC (Machine Learning Compilation) on May 22nd 2023: [Bringing Open Large Language Models to Consumer Devices](https://mlc.ai/blog/2023/05/22/bringing-open-large-language-models-to-consumer-devices)
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TIL hexdump and hexdump -C — While exploring null bytes in [this issue](https://github.com/simonw/ttok/issues/3) I learned that the `hexdump` command on macOS (and presumably other Unix systems) has a confusing default output.
Release sqlite-utils 3.32.1 — Python CLI utility and library for manipulating SQLite databases
Release sqlite-utils 3.32 — Python CLI utility and library for manipulating SQLite databases
Release strip-tags 0.3 — CLI tool for stripping tags from HTML
Release ttok 0.1 — Count and truncate text based on tokens
Release strip-tags 0.2 — CLI tool for stripping tags from HTML
Release strip-tags 0.1 — CLI tool for stripping tags from HTML
Release llm 0.3 — Access large language models from the command-line
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TIL Exploring Baseline with Datasette Lite — One of the announcements from Google I/O 2023 was [Baseline](https://web.dev/baseline/), a new initiative to help simplify the challenge of deciding which web platform features are now widely enough supported by modern browsers to be safe to use.
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TIL Running Python code in a Pyodide sandbox via Deno — I continue to seek a solution to the Python sandbox problem. I want to run an untrusted piece of Python code in a sandbox, with limits on memory and time.
Release sqlite-utils 3.31 — Python CLI utility and library for manipulating SQLite databases
Release download-esm 0.1a0 — Download ESM modules from npm and jsdelivr
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TIL Expanding ChatGPT Code Interpreter with Python packages, Deno and Lua — The ChatGPT Code Interpreter alpha remains incredibly interesting. I wrote about how I was using it [for Python and SQLite benchmarking](https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/12/code-interpreter/) a few weeks ago. Today I found a neat pattern for expanding its capabilities with custom binaries.
Release s3-credentials 0.15 — A tool for creating credentials for accessing S3 buckets
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TIL Social media cards generated with shot-scraper — My [TIL website](https://til.simonwillison.net/) has social media card images to make links shared from it look slightly more interesting when shared on sites like Mastodon and Twitter.
Release openai-to-sqlite 0.3 — Save OpenAI API results to a SQLite database
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TIL Deno KV — *Initial article: April 28th 2023 - see below for an update*
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TIL The location of the pip cache directory — `pip` uses a cache to avoid downloading packages again:
Release datasette 0.64.3 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
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TIL A few notes on Rye — [Rye](https://github.com/mitsuhiko/rye) is Armin Ronacher's new experimental Python packaging tool. I decided to take it for a test-run.
Release shot-scraper 1.2 — A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites
Sighting 7:06 PM — Brewer's Blackbird, in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, CA, US, CA
Brewer's Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Release datasette-explain 0.1a2 — Explain and validate SQL queries as you type them into Datasette
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TIL Interpreting photo orientation and locations in EXIF data — I upgraded my [Niche Museums](https://www.niche-museums.com/) site to use [PhotoSwipe](https://photoswipe.com/) for its photo galleries today. Here's [my issue](https://github.com/simonw/museums/issues/37).
A grand building with Pioneer Memorial Museum written in gold letters along the top, and a plaque in front of it reading Headquarters International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers
Museum Pioneer Memorial Museum — 300 N Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah
A sign above the gallery wall reads Sorry for killing most of humanity
Museum Misalignment Museum — 1699 3rd St. San Francisco, CA, 94158
Release asyncinject 0.6 — Run async workflows using pytest-fixtures-style dependency injection