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  • llamafile is the new best way to run a LLM on your own computer

    I lifted the title directly from Simon Willison’s post: llamafile is the new best way to run a LLM on your own computer, even though I don’t have the expertise to know if it’s the BEST way. I can tell you it’s a damn easy way, even on Windows! Simon’s explanation works on a mac,

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  • AI Linkdump

    I just came out of a webinar that generated a slew of good-looking links, and was off on Friday, so have a handful of newsletters, also with tasty-looking links. The rest of the day is full, and I fear I may not get to these for some time, so here, maybe you have time: In

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  • Two simple ways to share news to Facebook in Canada

    Update 05/24/24: my hosted version of sharenews was blocked by FB a couple of weeks ago. See option #1 below, or this post for a little more about it. Update 10/3/23: both of those Sharenews URLs have been blocked by Facebook, but the developer released his code as open source, so you can now run

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  • Link wherever you want (YMMV)

    Quite some time ago, I used a browser extension called TLDRify that allowed me to highlight some text on a web page, and it would create a link I could share that would jump a person directly to the text I had highlighted. It was a way to both create an anchor link when one

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  • Trying Trinka for automatic citation checking

    Last week some colleagues and I were discussing the use of AI in library services, and someone wondered if there was a tool that would automatically and correctly check a list of citations to see if any were, in fact, hallucinations. I'm pretty sure the more robust bibliographic management tools can tell you whether your

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