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Week 45 of 2024 (2024-11-04 to 2024-11-10)   weekly

Recent Tech and AI Developments   tech ai

AI and Software

  • Perplexity AI gained attention on election night
  • Anthropic increased prices for Haiku 3.5, citing "intelligence" improvements
  • Google accidentally leaked "Jarvis AI", an AI web browsing agent
  • Claude AI now offers desktop apps and dictation support
  • GitHub Copilot integrating Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI's models
  • Notion introducing AI features for email management

Programming and Development

  • Python overtook JavaScript as most popular language on GitHub
  • New releases for Clojure tools and libraries (test-runner, tools.namespace, tools.cli)
  • Clojure 1.12.0 changes documented
  • Increased interest in WebAssembly for serverless applications
  • Various AI-assisted programming tools for Emacs discussed

Data Science and Machine Learning

  • LLM Graph Transformer for building knowledge graphs
  • Methods for creating RAG evaluation datasets
  • DSPy (presumably a new tool or framework, details not provided)

GitHub Activity   github

Clojure Brain Teasers Review Project Summary

Project Focus
  • Implementing and testing various Clojure puzzles and concepts
Recent Activities
  • Added new puzzle implementations (NaN equality, truthy/falsey values)
  • Improved project structure and documentation
  • Updated dependencies (Clojure 1.12.0, tools.cli, tools.namespace)
  • Added development tools (org-mode documentation, babashka script)
Testing and Coverage
  • Test coverage expanded, all current tests passing
  • Project structure includes separate src and test directories
Documentation Improvements
  • Added interactive org-mode documentation
  • Created CONTRIBUTING.md with setup instructions
  • Updated README with new sections and examples
Development Workflow Enhancements
  • Added scripts for tangling org-mode files
  • Implemented self-documenting Makefile
  • Set up GitHub Actions for CI
TODO Future Plans
  • Systematically implement more puzzles
  • Expand test coverage

Goodreads Activity   reading

No Goodreads activity for this week.

Author: Jason Walsh

jasonwalsh@jasons-mbp.lan

Last Updated: 2024-11-11 20:05:58