Thanks to all for a surprisingly big mid-week release! Lots is happening. Check out the GitHub or Discord to stay up to date + help discuss future ideas GitHub: https://
github.com/hwchase17/lang
chain
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LangChain Mid-Week Release: Community Updates and Future Discussions
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New Requests Chain: LLM Interaction with Web URLs
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@BruceHammer helped add a requests chain This hits a given URL, and then passes the parsed response as context to the LLM. Very useful interacting with the web! See the example of doing a google search here: https://
langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/exam
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LangChain Adds Bash Utility and Natural Language to Command Chain
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@coyotespike added a Bash utility (a wrapper on subprocess) He then also added a chain to convert natural language to a bash command. Very useful for interacting with the terminal! See the example here: https://
langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/exam
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LangChain 0.0.31 Release: New Agents, Bash, and Chains
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LangChain version 0.0.31 @johnvmcdonnell fixed how Agents handle a missing tool (so no longer errors) Bash utility and a LLMBashChain (
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LaTeX notation request substantially improves math reasoning
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Anecdotally, its math reasoning (excl. arithmetic calculation) improves substantially when you request LaTeX notation.
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AI behavior with l33tsp34k, hyphens, Zalgo text, and Base64
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Less protocol-complaint but likely also dumber. You see a similar phenomenon if you ask it to speak in l33t5p34k, or with hyphens between all letters, or especially with Zalgo text. Base64 is interesting though because it probably sees a *lot* of translation pairs in pre-train.
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AI Enables Rapid Code, Content Creation, and Idea Testing
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Generating code, building a website, automating tasks, and speeding up the production and creation of content were either expensive or time-consuming but necessary hurdles that can now be generated in seconds The cost and speed to test a business idea will approach zero with AI.
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ChatGPT Ban on Stack Overflow: Community Impact
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Open-source ecosystem growth: timm, diffusers, evaluate, skops
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The open-source ecosystem has grown a lot this year: timm joined us, diffusers, evaluate, and skops were born. How can we do better? If you're a user of our open-source libraries, we'd love you to answer the survey for a badge on GitHub & HF: https://
forms.gle/TTTJJWVUHX1VDM
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Wolfram Alpha Plugin Discussion Reference
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@WHinthorn i think you were talking about a wolfram alpha plug in were'nt you?