Tag: Thaura
Thaura.ai is a pro-Palestine, pro-privacy LLM. This means it is trying to remove the pro-Israel lean that is allegedly present on other LLMs, and is definitely present in the US news sources. They don’t collect your data. They also use smaller, less energy intensive models. The feature set is smaller.
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Learning Elm: trying different LLMs to make a layout attempt 2
Testing to see how the models do writing Elm code. I got rid of some requirements, and tried to fix up the AGENTS.md to overcome some problems some models…
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Learning Elm: trying different LLMs to make a layout with minimal interactivity
Testing to see how the models do writing Elm code. The goal was to produce a simple web page layout for a news site. To confound things, I said…
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Learning Elm: LLMs
I’ve been messing with some LLMs to write Elm code. So far, so-so. I haven’t done a thorough test, mainly because I’m still learning Elm, but some LLMs seem…
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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…
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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,…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…