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Category: Machine Learning

Articles about Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence experiences. I’m not an expert on the topic. I’m just an end user of some software. For background, see Machine Learning Notes

  • Thaura: Writing with an LLM

    More and more people are using LLMs to write their documents: lawyers are using LLMs to write arguments full of bogus references; college students are submitting papers that make false claims. LLMs are amazing, but they also hallucinate. People who skip the thinking get burned. I don’t use the LLM to write my documents; I…

  • Thaura Work: a plugin architecture for a PHP program

    One of the code management techniques I tried with KRUpload was to break the application into a core app, and plugins. I don’t have stats about how that went, but it seemed to help. Here’s a du of the extensions directory: The core app is mostly in these directories: While each plugin’s code size isn’t…

  • Thaura Work: checking in

    Just a social update. I spent a lot of time playing in OpenCode and Thaura. OC has these free models (basically promoting the big silicon companies): Ling, Muse Spark, Nemotron, MiMo. It’s nice getting a feel for them. Thaura uses GLM-4.5. I started working a little more on KRUpload, an old web-based file uploader program…

  • Thaura Work: byte-miser and WordPress framework

    I was hitting some context token size limits when I was telling Work to write code from a spec, and letting the LLM write the docs and spec. The code was working, but it was pretty big. So I decided to get into byte-miser mode and look for a solution. This code was in PHP…

  • Thaura Work: a couple wordpress shortcodes

    Read this: https://rosemeadtu.org/z_archive/wordpress-shortcodes-calcode-and-calbill/ OK, I wasn’t that happy with these shortcodes, and now I know why. Citations need to be consistent, within reason. The code handles weird edge cases that could be considered bad or quirky citations. (The worst part is, it doesn’t gain you that much more laxity, and it didn’t make code I…

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    Thaura Work: time clock using .zsh_history

    A command line tool that uses the command history to implement a “punch clock” to record time worked. I use three kinds of timesheets – paper, Toggl, and shell history. I’ve always used a combination of tools, because, for example, I forget to click the “off” button on Toggle. Preparing accurate timesheets is sometimes a…

  • Thaura Work: arguing with the llm

    I had a couple rounds where I was trying to fix a bug, and it insisted that it did, when it clearly hadn’t. So I dug deeper to give it some clues. NO, I was not looking at #/db. I was on the correct page. This went on a few more times, and the conversation…

  • Thaura Work: use case -> code

    I am working on a tiny-scale Google Drive clone, and adding pgsql support. I wanted some use cases for small database apps that people could make in a low/no-code environment. Use cases could help delineate what a minimal feature set could be, and also a maximal capability expectation. I didn’t want this to be MS…

  • Thaura: editor, learn languages, blog posts

    Use the Projects feature to create this Project. Title: Extremely Critical Editor Description: Extremely critical editor looks for all kinds of flaws, particularly flaws of logic, the regular list of logical fallacies, unusual or unconventional definitions,, grammar errors, florid language, passive voice, failures to acknowledge limitations, ahistoricism, errors of fact, spelling errors, references to controversial…

  • Thaura Work: eliza x eliza, chatbot in js

    This is a javascript version of ELIZA, the old chatbot from the 1960s, originally written by Joseph Weizenbaum. This version runs two copies of ELIZA, and allows you to send chat messages from one bot to the other. Additionally, there are three more personalities: an incel, a redpiller, and a sex therapist. You can play…