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Saturday, 9th September 2023

Release datasette-edit-schema 0.6 — Datasette plugin for modifying table schemas
Release sqlite-utils 3.35.1 — Python CLI utility and library for manipulating SQLite databases
TIL Summarizing Hacker News discussion themes with Claude and LLM — I've been experimenting with the combination of [Claude](https://claude.ai/) and my [LLM CLI tool](https://llm.datasette.io/) to give me quick summaries of long discussions on [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/).

Matthew Honnibal from spaCy on why LLMs have not solved NLP. A common trope these days is that the entire field of NLP has been effectively solved by Large Language Models. Here’s a lengthy comment from Matthew Honnibal, creator of the highly regarded spaCy Python NLP library, explaining in detail why that argument doesn’t hold up.

# 9:30 pm / nlp, ai, generative-ai, llms

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