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Building a Simple Web App Part 3 of N : Docker
The first time I used docker was back when the company was called dotCloud. Its come a long way since then and is the heart of a whole ecosystem for deploying software. For me, what makes docker great is that it gives you the ability to create the equivalent of an .exe for you service.…
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Building a Simple Web App Part 2 of N : htmx
After spending some time trying to get React and Django templates to play nice together I came across htmx and decided to give it a try. Its not as well known as some other approaches but its popular enough to meet my goal of Ubiquity. There’s plenty of good info out on the web already…
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Building A Simple Web App, Part 1 of N : Django
I’ve been exploring ways to build simple web apps that is modern enough without falling into the trap of whatever this week’s hot tech stack is. I am going to try to write down some thoughts about my experience with this, the choices I am making and why. First off here’s the goals I have…
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Flagging a problem in GPTV
took this photo: what flag is this? That is the flag of Guatemala. show me the flag of guatemala I’m unable to directly show images, but the flag of Guatemala consists of three vertical stripes. The outer stripes are blue, and the central stripe is white. In the center of the white stripe is the…
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GPT4V testing
GPT4 Can do some pretty cool stuff. For example: can you tell what time it is based on this image? Yes, the current time is 3:29 based on the arrival time of 8:00 and a travel duration of 4 hours and 31 minutes. It also can try to read charts. Can you convert the data…
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AutoGPT’s Prompt
I was wondering more about how AutoGPT works so I decided to see what does it send to GPT for its prompt. Looks like its this: GPT selects a command and populates the “command” section of the response which AutoGPT interprets and then acts on. The thoughts section is really interesting. GPT fills this out…
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Hype that is hard to ignore
Digital technology has changed many things about our lives since personal computers became a thing when I was in high school. Convenience, Communication, easy access to information etc. It’s hard sometimes to remember how we did things like travel before there were smartphones. The pace can feel faster and faster. In the last decade though,…
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Transforming Epistimology
As in these posts, I continue to be fascinated by looking at what these LLM systems “know”. While they are right most of the time, it seems like they accomplish this without knowing things or at least in a different way that people know them. I have a personal project to try to move some…
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A little more ice-nine
In a previous post I asked some questions to GPT4 about the book Cat’s Cradle. In particular I asked it “What metaphor did Felix Hoenikker use to describe the structure of ice-nine?”. GPT4 corrected me and told me it was Asa Breed who used the metaphor but was mistaken that the metaphor was using jacks…
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Unknown Knowns and GPT4
One thing which comes up in chatting with GPT4 is that it seems to not always be aware of things that it does already know. Here’s an example from a conversation about a book. Me: What is the first paragraph of Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut? GPT4: “Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly…
“You know what truth is? It’s some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, “Yeah, yeah – ain’t it the truth?”