From earnestposts to TILs.
fastmigrate is a library and tool for database migrations, where migrations are nothing but a set of well-named scripts. This post explain what database migrations are, what problem they solve, and how to use fastmigrate for migrations in sqlite.
Introducing ModernBERT, a family of state-of-the-art encoder-only models representing improvements over older generation encoders across the board, with 8192 sequence length, better downstream performance and much faster processing. Available as a slot-in replacement for any BERT-like models.
What do transformer-based AI models actually learn? Can they solve complex problems by reasoning systematically through multiple steps? The Faith and Fate paper (Dziri et al. 2023) suggests answers: they often succeed by pattern matching, not systematic reasoning.
On whether modern LLMs in their vast data centers are as useless as Apollo 11.
Two weeks ago I couldn’t sleep so I was browsing twitter (bad habit). One thing led to another. I bought a domain name. I woke up and vibecoded a web manifesto, which a couple hundred people commented on. This was fun.
I want to experiment more with local models to understand their limits, so I want them to be easy to install and run. That suggests using ollama. I don’t have a beefy MacBook Pro, so I’d like to run them on my local Linux server. Here are instructions for setting up ollama on a local Debian server, accessible from your laptop on the same local subnet.
Nate Cooper’s ShellSage is one of the coolest pieces of tech to come out of AnswerAI recently. Using it with iTerm creates a magical experience.
Today I learned that, while there is a rich and subtle syntax for Python dependency specifications, it’s wiser to ignore it.