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Pushing ChatGPT's Structured Data Support to Its Limits
“Function calling” with ChatGPT is ChatGPT’s best feature since ChatGPT.
Max Woolf
A blog written by data scientist Max Woolf out of San Francisco.
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The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting
Before Reddit added native image hosting, Imgur accounted for 15% of all submissions to Reddit. Now it’s below 9%.
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Does offering ChatGPT a tip cause it to generate better text?
Modern AI rewards being very weird.
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The best way to use text embeddings portably is with Parquet and Polars
Never store embeddings in a CSV!
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Visualizing How Developers Rate Their Own Programming Skills
As it turns out, there is no correlation between programming ability and the frequency of Stack Overflow visits.
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How to create a blog post title optimizer with GPT-3 and Hacker News data
GPT-3 says the title for this post is very bad.
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Playing with 80M Amazon Product Review Ratings Using Apache Spark
Manipulating actually-big-data is just as easy as performing an analysis on a dataset with only a few records.
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The super effectiveness of Pokémon embeddings using only raw JSON and images
Embeddings encourage engineers to go full YOLO because it’s actually rewarding to do so!
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Advantages of Using R Notebooks for Data Analysis Instead of Jupyter Notebooks
The relatively new R Notebooks improve the workflows of common data analysis in ways Jupyter Notebooks can’t.
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What Percent of the Top-Voted Comments in Reddit Threads Were Also First Comment?
Are commenters ’late to this thread’ indeed late?
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A Statistical Analysis of All Hacker News Submissions
After downloading all 1,265,114 Hacker News submissions from the official Hacker News API, I gathered a few interesting statistics which show the true impact of Hacker News.
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How to Analyze Every Reddit Submission and Comment, in Seconds, for Free
With Reddit data in BigQuery, quantifying all the hundreds of millions of Reddit submissions and comments is trivial.
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Analyzing the Patterns of Numbers in 10M Passwords (2015)
There are many patterns for numbers in passwords, which involve surprising yet intuitive logic.
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Quantifying the Clickbait and Linkbait in BuzzFeed Article Titles
You probably do not know that the 3 most interesting things I found will blow your mind.