@simon I think it could be a game changer for learning a language.

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ChatGPT response: "You have very peculiar needs." 🤪

Here's a short audio clip https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2024/russian-pelican-in-spanish.m4a

@simon saw this and thought of you https://bsky.app/profile/socalleslie.bsky.social/post/3l7ewtd4koe2x

@simon I guess "draw a unicorn in tikz" has already been tainted in the training data?

@simon
Just and only my 2 cents: some people do formula 1 racing as a hobby. Or wakeboarding. Or use LLMs.
It's not forbidden. It's fascinating. It's fun.
<-> It's energy consuming

@simon based on the exoerience of people who tried to create a Python sandbox over the decades, I'd say it is pretty much impossible. (save for a browser saparayed as another page box: i.e. a "Frame")

@simon CSP is probably a good second layer of security, no matter what you end up doing.

@simon I wonder if you could do a similar approach as eg Figma used for their third party plugins: Make it all happen in a WASM script that’s sandboxed

So that and render to a canvas?

I keep meaning to knock up a little bit of JavaScript for the Django Admin that does this automatically for every add form

@simon We recently added that sort of feature to MediaWiki: https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Edit_Recovery (indexedDB rather than localStorage though, because it can store more).

@simon don't browsers do some level of form persistance if you use plain HTML forms?

@simon interesting choice.
Delegating the sandbox to the browser and compute to the user. what would be attack vectors here?

@simon would be cool to see Llama 3.2 1B or similar doing it right inside the browser 😄

@simon Interesting. Do you know (or does the code show) why the vis nodes for the dependencies are of different size?

@genmon poetry.

@simon @genmon I think that's called "sourdough starter".

@simon Cool post! I am not sure the `tool.uv.dev-dependencies` is the same as, or interoperable with, PEP 735 though.

@simon Extra tip: you can do uv tool install -e ., and now you can run demo-app directly, without the uv run prefix, in any directory.

@simon Then, for scripts you run frequently, do you just add to your.bashrc `alias demo=“uv run python -m demo_app”`?

My few python CLI apps each have a .venv directly, but it’s tiresome to have to juggle activations: `source ~/bin/demo/.env/activate && demo && deactivate’. 🫠

@simon it does make the posts more engaging. our little rat brains like stimulation

@simon Do you understand the difference between third party and direct sales in that quote? Third party sounds like regular API key usage, I’m unclear on what counts as direct sales

Today people are saying that it's interesting that Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Opus model is no longer mentioned on their models page - but without the archive I can't see for myself if it used to be listed there or not https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/models

@simon is this the much vaunted vaporware, the Large Action Model?

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This feels like it's a step on the way to automating many millions of office admin jobs - which are often "copy and paste stuff from one computer system to another, sometimes editing it". Sobering thinking of how many people are potentially affected by this stuff.

@simon this has huge accessibility implications, hopefully I'll have some time to test this out from a screen reader perspective over the coming weekend.

@simon that is amazing! reminds me of when @fgnass golfed a sudoku solver into a tweet... he didn't have enough bytes to return the result so he stopped the recursive iteration by throwing: https://youtu.be/JsAetmgJRss?t=1467

@konstin konsti stop doing cursed python things challenge (impossible)

@konstin This is not a new idea
https://github.com/frostming/sodoku-solver
In this repo, I referenced the original article.

Full list of artifacts from the past week

@simon I haven't played as much with Canvas but like I told you at DCUS, Claude Projects can't be unseen once you use it.

I saw your app last night, but I'm going to carve out some time to try it out. I have 1000s of chats and 100s of projects driven from it. I know it's not a true sync but I suspect I'll get a ton of good out of it.

@simon <blink>ho ho ho</blink>

@simon Running 4.2 here, but seeing raw tags in the replies 😪

<i>someday this might be in italics</i>

@simon tantek uses it (via bridgy) to do in-post footnotes https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://tantek.com/2024/285/t1/io-domain-suggested-steps

@simon For the "gods" category, also check out @forrestbrazeal's excellent song "AGI (Artificial God Incarnate)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZhhO7MGknQ

@simon I have been struggling with terminology, so this is useful. That said, I'm not a fan of "interns" used like this. The context that you used it in felt more appropriate than a whole class of AI terminology that literally means to replace a useful class of workers and learning.

I have personally struggled with the term Agents for lack of a framework or way to use them outside of running a Python script.

@simon the result on Firefox mobile is a slightly distressing amount of horizontal scroll for some reason, which rather spoils the effect!

Here's what I got from Llama 3.2 11B for this photo I took at the Pioneer Memorial Museum in Salt Lake City https://www.niche-museums.com/111

"describe this image including any text"

@simon did you see that h2o.ai did well even with 0.8B model?

https://venturebeat.com/ai/small-but-mighty-h2o-ais-new-ai-models-challenge-tech-giants-in-document-analysis/

@simon thanks for this! I had some issues however replicating this, where on an M3 max it always crashes. (Plus also annoying that it also crashes or errors if it cannot find an image. There is a PR to fix that, but it's not merged yet) Like even on the M3 MAX, as the in-situ quantization is done on one core, it takes a while... have you experienced one or all of these?