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Friday, 30th September 2022

A tool to run caption extraction against online videos using Whisper and GitHub Issues/Actions

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I released a new project this weekend, built during the Bellingcat Hackathon (I came second!) It’s called Action Transcription and it’s a tool for caturing captions and transcripts from online videos.

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nat/natbot (via) Extremely devious hack by Nat Friedman: opens a browser using Playwright and then passes a DOM representation to GPT-3 in order to power a chat-style interface for driving the browser. Worth diving into the code to look at the prompt it uses, it’s fascinating.

# 1:01 am / playwright, gpt-3, openai

Weeknotes: Datasette Cloud preview invitations

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This week I finally started sending out invitations for people to try out the preview of the new Datasette Cloud, my SaaS offering for Datasette.

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