Tag: .NET

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: SmolVLM – small yet mighty Vision Language Model

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/28/smolvlm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: SmolVLM – small yet mighty Vision Language Model Feedly Summary: SmolVLM – small yet mighty Vision Language Model I’ve been having fun playing with this new vision model from the Hugging Face team behind SmolLM. They describe it as: […] a 2B VLM, SOTA for its memory…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: QwQ: Reflect Deeply on the Boundaries of the Unknown

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/27/qwq/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: QwQ: Reflect Deeply on the Boundaries of the Unknown Feedly Summary: QwQ: Reflect Deeply on the Boundaries of the Unknown Brand openly licensed model from Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team, this time clearly inspired by OpenAI’s work on reasoning in o1. I love how the introduce the new…

  • The Register: QNAP and Veritas dump 30-plus vulns over the weekend

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/26/qnap_veritas_vulnerabilities/ Source: The Register Title: QNAP and Veritas dump 30-plus vulns over the weekend Feedly Summary: Just what you want to find when you start a new week Taiwanese NAS maker QNAP addressed 24 vulnerabilities across various products over the weekend.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: QNAP has addressed 24 vulnerabilities across…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Amazon S3 adds new functionality for conditional writes

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/26/s3-conditional-writes/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Amazon S3 adds new functionality for conditional writes Feedly Summary: Amazon S3 adds new functionality for conditional writes Amazon S3 can now perform conditional writes that evaluate if an object is unmodified before updating it. This helps you coordinate simultaneous writes to the same object and prevents…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Leaked system prompts from Vercel v0

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/25/leaked-system-prompts-from-vercel-v0/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Leaked system prompts from Vercel v0 Feedly Summary: Leaked system prompts from Vercel v0 v0 is Vercel’s entry in the increasingly crowded LLM-assisted development market – chat with a bot and have that bot build a full application for you. They’ve been iterating on it since launching…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing the Model Context Protocol

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/25/model-context-protocol/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing the Model Context Protocol Feedly Summary: Introducing the Model Context Protocol Interesting new initiative from Anthropic. The Model Context Protocol aims to provide a standard interface for LLMs to interact with other applications, allowing applications to expose tools, resources (contant that you might want to dump…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Ask questions of SQLite databases and CSV/JSON files in your terminal

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/25/ask-questions-of-sqlite/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Ask questions of SQLite databases and CSV/JSON files in your terminal Feedly Summary: I built a new plugin for my sqlite-utils CLI tool that lets you ask human-language questions directly of SQLite databases and CSV/JSON files on your computer. It’s called sqlite-utils-ask. Here’s how you install it:…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ethan Mollick

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/24/ethan-mollick/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ethan Mollick Feedly Summary: Often, you are told to do this by treating AI like an intern. In retrospect, however, I think that this particular analogy ends up making people use AI in very constrained ways. To put it bluntly, any recent frontier model (by which…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: open-interpreter

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/24/open-interpreter/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: open-interpreter Feedly Summary: open-interpreter This “natural language interface for computers" project has been around for a while, but today I finally got around to trying it out. Here’s how I ran it (without first installing anything) using uv: uvx –from open-interpreter interpreter The default mode asks you…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quantization matters

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/23/quantization-matters/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quantization matters Feedly Summary: Quantization matters What impact does quantization have on the performance of an LLM? been wondering about this for quite a while, now here are numbers from Paul Gauthier. He ran differently quantized versions of Qwen 2.5 32B Instruct through his Aider code editing…