Thursday, 29th June 2023
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CLI tools hidden in the Python standard library
— Seth Michael Larson [pointed out](https://twitter.com/sethmlarson/status/1674141676325990400) that the Python `gzip` module can be used as a CLI tool like this:
abacaj/mpt-30B-inference. MPT-30B, released last week, is an extremely capable Apache 2 licensed open source language model. This repo shows how it can be run on a CPU, using the ctransformers Python library based on GGML. Following the instructions in the README got me a working MPT-30B model on my M2 MacBook Pro. The model is a 19GB download and it takes a few seconds to start spitting out tokens, but it works as advertised.
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Bulk editing status in GitHub Projects
— GitHub Projects has a mechanism for bulk updating the status of items, but it's pretty difficult to figure out how to do it.