First up — this is just an experiment. The aim is to illustrate what is possible and trigger discussion. I’ve seen a lot of “the essay is dead” from a student assessment perspective, and this blog post aims to look at the ChatGPT (or LLM) possibilities in educational resource development. …

This is a rapidly pulled-together blog post, mainly to share the results of getting ChatGPT to output Markdown. Markdown can be edited and via extension formats rendered as diagrams, charts and maps (e.g. mermaid.js, Kroki, ArgDown), providing a more visual way to share ChatGPT output. Plain old Markdown with a twist I thought I’d start with…

Let’s go beyond asking ChatGPT to write code from scratch for you …. We need to stop thinking that ChatGPT will replace humans! Suppose indeed technology like ChatGPT does become ubiquitous and affordable. In that case, everybody will have access and if everybody can use it to create, then everybody…

I was very excited when Anaconda announced PyScript and finally got to spend a few hours tinkering. The result is a simple webpage using NMF from Scikit-Learn to perform topic modeling! That’s correct Numpy and Scikit-Learn running in a browser and finding topics from sentences entered into a textarea. Try…

I recently came across an interesting paper entitled “Data Agnostic RoBERTa-based Natural Language to SQL Query Generation” by Debaditya Pal, Harsh Sharma and Kaustubh Chaudhuri which promised SQL generation for any tabular dataset. Infact the dataset is not even needed by the algorithm which only takes as input a list…

Ever needed to generate synthetic data and felt that tools such as Faker don’t go far enough to match your requirements. Synner may just be what you need. Synner is a tool developed by Azza Abouzied (@AzzaAbouzied) and Mino Mannino and documented in their UIST 2019 paper. A demo video…

Object-oriented programming is too complex but what are the alternatives? Yehonathan Sharvit makes the case for data oriented programming and completely succeeds by introducing and building on the following three fundamental principles: Separate code from data; Represent data with generic data structures; and enforce data immutability. The book is well…

I made my first H5P content type called Interactive Code. I’m pretty excited! The extension allows editable programming code to be displayed. Many programming languages including Javascript, Python, Ruby, PHP, C++ and even SQL are supported and no server-side libraries are required. I think the new content type has the…

I’m building a new GUI for Pandas aptly called “Pandamonium” as a Jupyter Notebook Extension. I’ve not built a Jupyter Notebook extension before and I’ve spent this last weekend learning all about the extension eco-system. I’m going to share my learnings with a series of blog posts — a great…