No Space Like J-Space
There is a new very cool Anthropic paper: Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models. You can read the blog post verison here.
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sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations
sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations
This morning I released sqlite-utils 4.0, the 124th release of that project and the first major version bump since 3.0 in November 2020. In addition to some small but significant breaking changes (described in this upgrade guide), this version introduces three major features: database migrations, nested transactions (via a new db.atomic() method), and support for compound foreign keys. Database schema migrations using sqlite-utils Schema migrations define a sequence of changes to be made to a…
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Where AI Agents Belong in Data Engineering: The Correctness Layer
Where AI Agents Belong in Data Engineering: The Correctness Layer
With ever-changing models, new and better ones coming out every few months, it’s great if we don’t have to rely on them too heavily. The better your tooling, the less dependent you become on any single model. That’s also why the deterministic harness matters: a correctness layer that lets you reproduce outputs and trace lineage regardless of which model you’re running underneath. This is especially true during maintenance or extending the project, where verification is the real job.
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Rethinking KV Caching For Production Inference
A practitioner's guide to KV cache management in production.
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sqlite-migrate 0.2
sqlite-migrate 0.2
Release: sqlite-migrate 0.2 The version that retires the library, instead implementing a compatibility shim against the new sqlite-utils 4.0 dependency. Tags: sqlite-utils
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github-code Web Component
github-code Web Component
Tool: github-code Web Component An experimental Web Component built using GPT-5.5 and the following prompt: let's build a Web Component for embedding code from GitHub <github-code href="https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-ast/blob/437c759129154f05296324a7f82aa1246340dd14/sqlite_ast/parser.py#L9-L18"></github-code> It takes URLs like that, converts them to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simonw/sqlite-ast/437c759129154f05296324a7f82aa1246340dd14/sqlite_ast/parser.py, then uses fetch()…
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sqlite-utils 4.0
sqlite-utils 4.0
Release: sqlite-utils 4.0 See sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations for details. Tags: sqlite-utils
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Ordinary Engineers, Not Heroic Inventors
In the 1980s, Japan led the world in semiconductors, consumer electronics, and computer hardware, the industries everyone assumed would decide the next phase of economic power. Japan won them and still did not overtake the United States in the information revolution that followed. Jeff Ding, a political scientist at George Washington University, opens his book […]
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Intelligence is Free, Now What? <br> Data Systems for, of, and by Agents
... government of the people, by the people, for the people ... The cost of AI is dropping rapidly. GPT-4-class capabilities cost roughly $30 per million tokens in early 2023; today the same runs under $1, and some providers are pushing costs below $0.10. Across benchmarks, inference prices have fallen between 9x and 900x per year, with a median decline near 50x. Even frontier models are getting dramatically cheaper each generation, with open-source models following closely behind. And…
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sqlite-utils 4.0rc4
sqlite-utils 4.0rc4
Release: sqlite-utils 4.0rc4 The last RC before the 4.0 stable release. Mainly implements feedback from a detailed review by Claude Fable 5. Tags: sqlite-utils, claude-mythos-fable
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tencent/Hy3
tencent/Hy3
tencent/Hy3 New Apache 2.0 licensed model from Tencent in China: Hy3 is a 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 21B active parameters and 3.8B MTP layer parameters, developed by the Tencent Hy Team. Following the Hy3 Preview launch in late April, we gathered feedback from 50+ products and scaled up post-training with higher quality data. Today, we introduce Hy3, which outperforms similar-size models and rivals flagship open-source models with 2-5x parameters. It also shows…
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The Reward Signal Problem for Agents
The full RL nanodegree, covered with implementation.
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Import AI 464: Fable writes GPU kernels; AI automation; and analog computation
Is this the beginning of a new world?
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sqlite-utils 4.0rc3
sqlite-utils 4.0rc3
Release: sqlite-utils 4.0rc3 I hoped to release sqlite-utils 4.0 stable this weekend, but as I worked through the backlog of issues and PRs with a combination of Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 the changelog since rc2 kept getting bigger. The biggest new feature is support for introspecting and creating compound foreign keys - a feature that involves a subtle breaking change to table.foreign_keys and hence needed to land for the 4.0 stable release. sqlite-utils also now follows SQLite's convention…
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How to Reduce LLM Costs by 50-60% Using Model Routing
...explained with code.
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