Wow there's a lot of clever technical details in how Cloudflare's new Python support works – running Python in WebAssembly in server-side Pyodide with a whole bunch of performance optimizations
@simonw
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PostgreSQL Development: Reliable Database Technology Evolution
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Yes, and it's very cool technology and developing at a solid pace – it's still pretty new though, the PostgreSQL options are a lot more boring (in a good way)
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SQLite Index Optimization for Database Performance
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Adding indexes to current columns in SQLite works fine: https://
sqlite.org/lang_createind
ex.html
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SQLite Views Triggers Distributed Cluster Architecture Limitations
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SQLite has good support for views and triggers Distributed cluster is a whole lot harder though, it's meant to be used as a linked library on a single machine
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Claude Model Optimization Through In-Context Examples
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Have you considered adding a few examples to the Claude code, maybe even having "Claude with examples" as a separate entry on the board? My expertise with Opus and Haiku and Sonnet is that they are extremely sensitive to examples, it helps them out a lot
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Claude Function Prompts Using Gorilla Code Implementation
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That's using this code, right? https://
github.com/ShishirPatil/g
orilla/blob/6971033188838d975bfdf78f9decb244851586fa/berkeley-function-call-leaderboard/model_handler/claude_handler.py
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OpenAI’s Free AI Strategy Masks Advanced System Value Gap
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Better Ethan quote from December:
"I increasingly think the decision of OpenAI to make the “bad” AI free is causing people to miss why AI seems like such a huge deal to a minority of people that use advanced systems and elicits a shrug from everyone else" https://
oneusefulthing.org/p/an-opinionat
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LLM Capabilities Beyond 3.5-Level Model Perceptions
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@emollick has complained in the past about how most people's mental model of what LLMs can and can't do is based on exposure to 3.5-level models – this isn't going to help on that front!
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Reducing Account Friction to Drive Technology Adoption
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I imagine their goal here is to expose as many people to their technology as possible – there are still vast numbers of people who have never tried it because they were put off by the friction of creating an account
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Python Integer Singleton Implementation Detail Explained
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(Technically I think every call does share the same 3, but that's due to a Python implementation detail where integers below 255 are all allocated as singletons)