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Just saw a non-English, auto-dubbed short pop up in YouTube, and it completely worked. Tower of Babel level one?

Meanwhile, captions were only available in Korean! How odd.

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01.11.2025 20:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The entire @openlibrary.org team would like to express our deep sadness at the loss of our friend Greg Newby who, for years, has seeded @gutenberg.org with public good, open access values worth continuing to follow. Thank you for your beautiful contributions. You are missed.

22.10.2025 18:28 — 👍 275    🔁 46    💬 2    📌 1

Library Explorer | Open Library Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.

I built an interface a while ago that used shelves for exploring/visualizing classification systems. You can switch between DDC or LCC in Settings. It uses the tree nature of classification systems to let you breadth explore or depth dive (the expand icon).

openlibrary.org/explore

16.05.2025 12:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The GPT-4 barrier was comprehensively broken Some of those GPT-4 models run on my laptop LLM prices crashed, thanks to competition and increased efficiency Multimodal vision is common, audio and video are starting to emerge Voice and live camera mode are science fiction come to life Prompt driven app generation is a commodity already Universal access to the best models lasted for just a few short months “Agents” still haven’t really happened yet Evals really matter Apple Intelligence is bad, Apple’s MLX library is excellent The rise of inference-scaling “reasoning” models Was the best currently available LLM trained in China for less than $6m? The environmental impact got better The environmental impact got much, much worse The year of slop Synthetic training data works great LLMs somehow got even harder to use Knowledge is incredibly unevenly distributed LLMs need better criticism Everything tagged “llms” on my blog in 2024

Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/...

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