Counting tokens, Vision models, Magnus, Stack Overflow, and more
Tales from the jar side, for the week of May 5 - 12, 2024. Counting tokens to upload complete books to AI models, analyzing images with vision models, Magnus does it again, Stack Overflow betrays its own users, and the usual tweets and toots.
Tales from the jar side:
▶️ Newsletter: https://kenkousen.substack.com
▶️ YouTube channel: / @talesfromthejarside
▶️ Home page: http://www.kousenit.com
Welcome to Tales from the jar side! New newsletter every Sunday, new newsletter video every Monday, and additional technical videos (Java, Gradle, JUnit, Spring, and lots more) every week.
00:00 Welcome to Tales from the jar side!
01:09 Counting tokens
04:59 Vision models
08:10 GPT-4o vision
11:25 Magnus Carlsen does it again
15:13 Stack Overflow sells its users
17:55 Tweets and toots
Affiliate links:
These are products I use on a regular basis. If you click on them, your price doesn't change, but I may receive a small referral fee. Feel free to try them out.
▶️ Tella.tv: https://tella.tv/?via=tftjs
Tella is a great screen capture program. Very simple to use, but very powerful. :)
▶️ Descript: https://www.descript.com/?lmref=HHcVuA
This is a great program for transcribing videos and letting you edit them by editing the transcript. It also has several AI features like Studio Sound, Background Removal, Eye Tracking, Autodub, and more. I use it especially for YouTube Shorts.
▶️ TubeBuddy: https://www.tubebuddy.com/pricing?a=t...
This is about the best tool around for giving you statistics on YouTube videos.
▶️ CleanShot: https://cleanshot.sjv.io/Tftjs
I use this as my primary way of making screenshots. You can save them locally or to the cloud, crop and do other edits, add backgrounds, and more.
▶️ Manning Publications: https://www.manning.com/?utm_source=m...
This is where my first book, "Making Java Groovy", was published, but you can use the link for any Manning books
