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In passing, I’ve been revising a couple of JupyterLab extensions I’ve cobbled together in the past and started looking at producing some simple Playwright tests for them. For years now, there...

https://blog.ouseful.info/2024/04/24/simple-playwright-tests-for-jupyter-environments/

Back to the “genAI is not necessarily the best alternative” thing again, this time in the context of generating SQL code that performs a particular sort of query. Natural language may be a st...

https://blog.ouseful.info/2024/04/15/automatically-generating-sql-equivlents-to-dataframe-method-chains/

Checking my feeds, AI-hype continues but I get the sense there are also other signs of “yes, but…” and “well, actually…” starting to appear. In the RAG (retrieval augmented generation...

https://blog.ouseful.info/2024/04/15/genai-outputs-as-almost-information-from-second-hand-secondary-information-sources/

One of the longstanding off-the-shelf models used for OCR — optical character recognition — is provided in the form of Tesseract. It started life over thirty years and gets updated every so o...

https://blog.ouseful.info/2024/04/03/ocr-in-word-add-in/

Picking up on the pattern I used in DIY Microsoft Office Add-Ins – Postgres WASM in the Task Pane, it’s easy enough to do the same thing for Python code execution using pyodide WASM and R co...

https://blog.ouseful.info/2024/03/27/more-diy-ms-word-add-ins-pyhton-and-r-code-execution-using-pyodide-and-webr/

Poking around the org’s Office 365 offering today, I noticed in Word the ability to add “Add-ins”, sidebar extensions essentially. There’s lots of them in the list, but many of them requi...

https://blog.ouseful.info/2024/03/26/microsoft-office-add-ins-postgres-wasm-in-the-task-bar/

As in:

https://blog.ouseful.info/2024/03/25/noting-ai-support-in-wordpres-com-editor/

So… I’m on a work machine, which has all sorts of gubbins that IT security folk put on it. But it’s also classed as an “autonomous” machine that I have root access on, which lets me ins...

https://blog.ouseful.info/2024/03/25/data-exfiltration-using-copilot-in-edge/

AI qua LLMs, multimodal models, etc. seem likely to be deployed, for the short term at least, in a couple of ways: * Running in the browser does not necessarily mean requiring a network connectio...

https://blog.ouseful.info/2024/03/22/running-ai-models-in-the-browser/

Almost ten years ago, when we were first exploring the possible use of IPython notebooks, as they were then known, for the data management and analysis course that is still running today, I poste...

https://blog.ouseful.info/2024/03/21/fragment-apps-in-notebooks/