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Introducing Chat Notebooks: Integrating LLMs into the Notebook Paradigm
What a time to be alive.
I think I’ve used more OpenAI credits in the last hour than I have over the last month. š
I just created a Google Doc from Mathematica. I feel unstoppable.
Today I wrote a quick little post about exploring JSON REST APIs in Wolfram Language.
I wouldn’t have thought that Mathematica would be such a great environment for manipulating JSON, but its built-in dataset query APIs and table renderer are just good!
People think that when they turn their eyes from the earth to the sky they see the heavens.
The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka š
ChucK continues to shine. šµ Todayās find: a real-time audio mosaic that plays audio clips from another source (in this case, A Day in the Life by The Beatles) whose features match the audio from the microphone.
The latest draft of my Wolfram Language tensor math article is up! I get into function minimization (kind of important in ML?) and pack in several cool purpose-built visualizations that take only a few lines each.
I’ve already drafted the next few sections and there’s fun stuff coming up⦠š
Elmo can do no wrong⦠except the Happy Dance. My kids will not abide it. They yell, āNo Happy Dance!ā as soon as Elmo learns something new. I donāt know why.
I just posted a massive new update to my tensor programming article draft, with an expanded introduction, a worked neural network example, matrix equation pretty-printing, and several gorgeous plots! This article is proving exceptionally fun to write. :)
I have a big ol’ writing project planned for exploring fundamental ML concepts in Wolfram Language.
When I’m trying to get work done, I use JAX, but when I’m trying to understand and visualize, I prefer to work symbolically. This article is going to demonstrate why. :}
Look at how dramatically Wolfram is rebranding. In their own marketing email, they introduce the companyās primary product as āWolfram Languageāthe language behind the Wolfram plugin for ChatGPT.ā
My workflow is nascent, but this is the snippet that allowed me to drop that last Mathematica notebook into my site template with no modifications:
Export["body.html", EvaluationNotebook[], "HTML",
"CSS" -> None,
"FullDocument" -> False,
"GraphicsOutput" -> "PNG",
"ConversionRules" -> {
"Title" -> {"<h1>", "</h1>"},
"Section" -> {"<h2>", "</h2>"},
"Subsection" -> {"<h3>", "</h3>"},
"Text" -> {"<p>", "</p>"},
"Input" -> {"<pre>", "</pre>"},
"Item" -> {"<li>", "</li>"}
}]
I follow that up with cat head.html body.html tail.html > index.html
.
By default, Mathematica turns all those cell types into <p>
with classes like “Title” and “Section”, but once I switched to the semantic equivalents, they just worked.
I still haven’t figured out how I want to do margin notes, or how to wrap lists in <ol>
or <ul>
, or how to embed text versions of all the inputs that it renders as PNGābut in this case I felt that perfect was the enemy of good!
First they trained ChatGPT to answer questions with Wolfram Language, then they built a library for making your own functions available.
I’m excited about Mathematica again!
As a warmup for publishing more, I upgraded my contrastive representation learning notebook from PDF to beautiful HTML.
Iāve been noodling on one to the tune of āLet It Beā:
When my planetās spice is in trouble
Itās time to train a new army
Seeking words of killing
Like Muadādib
Like Muadādib
Like Muadādib
Like Muadādib
Like Muadādib
Seeking words of killing
Like Muadādib
These could be exactly the same oil and I donāt care. The containers are SO much fun.
Research wanders about aimlessly, each researcher seeing just one part of the infinite array of natural factorsā¦
Currently reading: The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka š
What are some examples of apps that are designed for you to use them for a while, then delete them?
Just based on the experience of using web sites with “aspx” in the URL, I’m going to guess that the only way to call a function is to redirect the user to it, with all the state in the query params.
Beeminder has shepherded me through my 40th strength training workout of the year! I didnāt think I was a betting man, but having $5 on the line apparently makes a big difference in the absence of the social pressure I had when I worked in the same office as my workout buddy.
TIL the difference between With
and ReplaceAll
in Mathematica. I thought this would produce the same value twice:
a = b;
With[{b = 42}, a]
ReplaceAll[a, b -> 42]
But the second line evaluates to b
and the third line to 42
.
With
evaluates before the substitution from a
to b
.
Usually when I contradict ChatGPT, I get, āI apologize for the confusion earlier,ā but today I actually managed, āYou bring up an insightful point.ā š³
So long, Twitter.
The kids are finally old enough to LOVE roleplay, so Iāve been inventing characters for all their stuffed animals. This puppy doesnāt look it, but itās the most erratic so far. š
I somehow convinced my wife to sign up for ChatGPT and have a conversation with it to figure out what show we should watch next. It made a great recommendationāBetter Things! Binged for hours last night. :)
Iāve never been good at playlists, but I dipped my toe in the water a few months ago by starting whatās now become a tradition.
On the first of the month, I create a new playlist. Then I play it on shuffle the whole month.
Now I have a place to put new music I want to try out (MusicBox wasnāt working for me) and a place to re-find songs I was listening to recently. And a snapshot of how I was feeling any given month!
I think I understand RxJS pretty well now. I even muddled my way through writing a custom Observable. How come Combine is so hard for me to get right? How come posts like this make my head spin? š