Tag: Python

  • 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…

  • Hacker News: AMD Releases ROCm Version 6.3

    Source URL: https://insidehpc.com/2024/11/amd-releases-rocm-version-6-3/ Source: Hacker News Title: AMD Releases ROCm Version 6.3 Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: AMD’s ROCm Version 6.3 enhances AI and HPC workloads through its advanced features like SGLang for generative AI, optimized FlashAttention-2, integration of the AMD Fortran compiler, and new multi-node FFT support. This release is…

  • 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…

  • Hacker News: Understanding SIMD: Infinite Complexity of Trivial Problems

    Source URL: https://www.modular.com/blog/understanding-simd-infinite-complexity-of-trivial-problems Source: Hacker News Title: Understanding SIMD: Infinite Complexity of Trivial Problems Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses advancements and challenges surrounding SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) operations, particularly in the context of high-performance computing for AI applications. The focus is on how to effectively leverage modern…

  • 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: 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…

  • Slashdot: Does GitHub Copilot Improve Code Quality?

    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/11/23/1855203/does-github-copilot-improve-code-quality Source: Slashdot Title: Does GitHub Copilot Improve Code Quality? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a blog post by GitHub that evaluates the impact of GitHub Copilot on code quality and developer efficiency. While initial data suggests positive outcomes—such as faster coding speeds and improved code readability—contradictory…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Weeknotes: asynchronous LLMs, synchronous embeddings, and I kind of started a podcast

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/22/weeknotes/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Weeknotes: asynchronous LLMs, synchronous embeddings, and I kind of started a podcast Feedly Summary: These past few weeks I’ve been bringing Datasette and LLM together and distracting myself with a new sort-of-podcast crossed with a live streaming experiment. Project: interviewing people about their projects Datasette Public Office…

  • Cloud Blog: Create a self-escalating chatbot in Conversational Agents using Webhook and Generators

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/create-a-self-escalating-chatbot-in-conversational-agents/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Create a self-escalating chatbot in Conversational Agents using Webhook and Generators Feedly Summary: As conversational AI becomes a core part of the user experience, it’s crucial for application developers to build chatbots that not only provide accurate information, but also know the right time to escalate to a…