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Simon Willison

Redis Array Playground

Tool: Redis Array Playground Salvatore Sanfilippo submitted a PR adding a new data type - arrays - to Redis. The new commands are ARCOUNT, ARDEL, ARDELRANGE, ARGET, ARGETRANGE, ARGREP, ARINFO, ARINSERT, ARLASTITEMS, ARLEN, ARMGET, ARMSET, ARNEXT, AROP, ARRING, ARSCAN, ARSEEK, ...

David Bushell Notes

Prompt API is back in the news. Can we not? How this will transpire: User visits website Popup before the page is visible: “✨️ website wants to install: [technobabble]” User is scared and confused, clicks “Yes” anyway The local model ...

Armin Ronacher

Content for Content’s Sake

Language is constantly evolving, particularly in some communities. Not everybody is ready for it at all times. I, for instance, cannot stand that my community is now constantly “cooking” or “cooked”, that people in it are “locked in” or “cracked.” ...

Ted Merz

Writing With AI

We are at an interesting inflection point in how people are using AI to write online. This week Panagram – the best known AI detection software – released a new free API to detect AI writing on social media feeds. ...

Ted Merz

The New Networking

If you sit in front of a screen your job is at risk. That was Robert Sterling’s take in a recent tweet. Meta and KPMG recently announced they were laying off 10% of their staff. Microsoft is cutting 7%. The ...

Simon Willison

Quoting Anthropic

We used an automatic classifier which judged sycophancy by looking at whether Claude showed a willingness to push back, maintain positions when challenged, give praise proportional to the merit of ideas, and speak frankly regardless of what a person wants ...

David Bushell Notes

Hello note readers! Did I mention I’m starting a limited company soon (“soon”)? I probably should save that announcement for the big blog… It’s primarily for tax stuff, we’ll see, but it needs a cool domain, obviously. That’s a problem! ...

Simon Willison

Sightings

/elsewhere/sightings/ I have a new camera (a Canon R6 Mark II) so I'm taking a lot more photos of birds. I share my best wildlife photos on iNaturalist, and based on yesterday's successful prototype I decided to add those to ...