Ray Bell

In AI Products,we are building 𝘂𝗻𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗿 experiences for users. Experiences they have never seen before.Truth is that users can tell you what’s broken about the path towards a use case, they won't tell you how to fix it.Listen, observe behaviors then design what they didn’t know is possible with AI

Probably same with government

Archived to archive.ph/UeY4u in case the site gets taken down

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Adding to my playlist

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A quick blog post on monitoring power outages thanks to Maryland Department of Information Technology's Open Data Portal (shout out to Natalie Evans Harris).

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#opendata #LLM

I've seen enough LLM output as raw text and rendered markdown I now see the bold text reading raw text

Loved reading the @hf.co smolagent system prompt!

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www.copeinc.org/docs/State-A...
shows Iowa pretty much adopted NGSS in 2015 minus some adjustments for placing topics for specific middle school grades

South Dakota Adopts Near-Copy of Next Generation Science Standards The South Dakota board of education has adopted a new set of science standards that look a whole lot like the Next Generation Science Standards.

www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Now i'm curious which states are using www.nextgenscience.org out of the box and which states have "forked it"

I don't think Maryland has diverged from NGSS marylandpublicschools.org/about/Docume...

HS-LS4-2 — The Wonder of Science

I see evolution mentioned in thewonderofscience.com/hsls42 (the old Iowa standard)

:)
uv run raw.githubusercontent.com/TomAugspurge...

Maryland High School Science Standards - by Topic — The Wonder of Science

Found thewonderofscience.com/maryland-hs-... think the summary sentence matches github.com/TomAugspurge...

If I have some time I’ll may do a diff to MD (where I now work) marylandpublicschools.org/about/Pages/... or even other states.

May help identify anomalies

Great work Tom!

Who should I get to know that works in #govtech?

@chrisalbon.com

0.9 Added support for grounding prompts against Google search using the new -o google_search 1 option. Thanks, Ricardo Mestre. #29 Added support for text/plain and text/csv attachments. Thanks, Michele Gregori. #34 Fixed bug handling application/ogg attachments. #35 New model: learnlm-1.5-pro-experimental. Thanks, Leonard Tulipan. #36 New model: gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21. #37

New release of the llm-gemini plugin - a couple of new experimental models, but the really fun feature is "-o google_search 1" to enable a feature where models can run additional Google searches as part of responding to a prompt.

https://github.com/simonw/llm-gemini/releases/tag/0.9

Is there a blue sky starter pack for gov tech people?

I wrote a blog on setting up my new windows ( 😮 ) laptop for developing!

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#software #AI #building

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I’m here for AI and DC facts

I haven’t had so much fun wasting time in a while

ChatGPT - Read NetCDF with xarray Shared via ChatGPT

One of the funnest chats I’ve had with #ChatGPT. Completely on my phone l, I downloaded a netcdf file, uploaded it to ChatGPT and asked it how much #snow #annapolis got

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Not sure if Andrew Huang is on here but he’s pretty savvy with colorbars

I’m in the firing zone #annapolis #snow

Latest ChatGPT and Gemini have sources but have to pay for these models. Perplexity is free

Impact of the Stratosphere on the Winter Tropospheric Teleconnections between ENSO and the North Atlantic and European Region” by C. Cagnazzo and E. Manzini (2009)