Anyone got any experience with GraalPy?

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"Python 3.10 compliant runtime" claiming a 3-4x performance boost over cPython once the JIT has warmed up It's under Oracle's Universal Permissive License which looks GPL-like, and apparently has OSI approval

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The Universal Permissive License Version 1.0 - Open Source Initiative

Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders> The Universal Permissive License (UPL), Version 1.0 Subject to the condition set forth below, permission i...

Just spent 20 frustrating minutes figuring out how to setup a new S3 bucket that could be used to publicly serve static files, despite having devoted an unreasonable amount of time in the past to solving that exact same problem when I built

s3-credentials

Why is this so hard !?

I wrote about my process for publishing annotated versions of my talks - like

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Catching up on the weird world of LLMs

I gave a talk on Sunday at North Bay Python where I attempted to summarize the last few years of development in the space of LLMs—Large Language ...

- and shared a new tool I built to help with that progress, allowing me to OCR my slides for alt= attributes and type up annotations for them in Markdown

Simon Willison’s Weblog

How I make annotated presentations

Giving a talk is a lot of work. I go by a rule of thumb I learned from Damian Conway: a minimum of ten hours of preparation for every one …

Weeknotes: Plugins for LLM, sqlite-utils and Datasette

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Weeknotes: Plugins for LLM, sqlite-utils and Datasette

The principle theme for the past few weeks has been plugins. Llama 2 in LLM via plugins I added the ability to support models other than the OpenAI...

Question for Dependabot users: have you found a good pattern for landing multiple dependency bumps at once? I have continuous deployment configured but I don't want to ship the whole repo every time I land a Dependabot PR

Random thought concerning personal AI ethics: it's rude to publish something that would take someone longer to read than it took you to write it

Wow there is a ton of fascinating stuff tucked deep in the Settings -> Safari -> Advanced -> Experimental Features menu Notifications is "off" by default - I've tried turning it on but I'm having trouble finding an example site that can send web push notifications and doesn't user-agent detect iOS Safari and disable the feature

Weeknotes: Self-hosted language models with LLM plugins, a new Datasette tutorial, a dozen package releases, a dozen TILs

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Weeknotes: Self-hosted language models with LLM plugins, a new Datasette tutorial, a dozen package releases, a dozen TILs

A lot of stuff to cover from the past two and a half weeks. LLM and self-hosted language model plugins My biggest project was the new version of my...

I'd love to hear more opinions on generative AI from people who aren't confident writers I feel like most of the commentary I see is from people who write with confidence - almost by definition, since writing confidently is an important prerequisite for widely broadcasting your opinions on things

The thing that's surprised me most about GPT4 is how much more finely grained knowledge it has baked into it than 3/3.5 It knows the (real) addresses of restaurants in my area! You can ask for people's Twitter accounts and it often knows those - even roughly how active they are