Multiple Llamafiles With llm

In playing with llamafile under llm I initially used the llm-llamafile plugin. This plugin makes initial setup trivial. But soon I wanted to …

More Moats and AI

In a recent post I speculated as to what business positioning and models would be defensible in an AI-powered world. Since then I’ve …

Python CVS Woes

I wasted time this morning learning that the csv module defaults to \r\n line endings regardless of platform. This is clear enough in the …

Moats and AI

How will the rise of AI capability affect the ability of startup companies to build moats? What moats are defensible in an AI-enabled world? …

Richard Epstein at Civitas

Yesterday I discovered that Richard Epstein is now affiliated with Civitas. I knew that John Yoo was, having seen him at one of their …

Meetup Attendees

The Austin CTO Club is now organized on Meetup. When I attempted to use the Pro Dashboard to download a list of my attendees, the file …

Wrapping jq select

In working with large and deeply nested json structures, I had to extract or delete selected elements from the structure based on variable …

Jujutsu Improves on Git

The Jujutsu claims to be git compatible for storage, and uses a different approach for managing commit graphs. Instead of an index, it …

Editing PDFs With qpdf

In my recent survey of tools for working with PDF files, qpdf stood out. It not only extracts information from PDFs, but can convert a PDF …

The New Programming

In working with a set of PDF files I needed to distinguish areas by typeface name and size. I found PDFBox, which offers very fine-grained …