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Executable Is a SQLite Database

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Re: Executable Is a SQLite Database

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The word "Your" was dropped from the start of the title for some reason.

Well, for the usual reason :-)

I’m wondering if the anti-clickbait filter could benefit from some lightweight LLM integration. E.g. when the submission hits the front page, if the title was “de-clickbaited” and wasn’t changed manually yet, run it through a cheap model and see if that was the right call.

Re: Executable Is a SQLite Database

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post #3

The word "Your" was dropped from the start of the title for some reason.

Well, for the usual reason :-) I’m wondering if the anti-clickbait filter could benefit from some lightweight LLM integration. E.g. when the submission hits the front page, if the title was “de-clickbaited” and wasn’t changed manually yet, run it through a cheap model and see if that was the right call.

Maybe "your" at the beginning of a title should be replaced by "my" instead of getting stripped.

That would preserve the non-clickbait meaning of all such titles I can spontaneously think of.

Re: Executable Is a SQLite Database

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Great read. I always find these turn a feature of a computer into a database an interesting read/idea. It certainly has upside, and downsides. For example having an entire filesystem as a sqlite database etc, or in this case an executable. It would be nice to have a structured way of talking to our utilities, rather than interpreting various commands as json through a few layers of tools to then get the output in a common format. That said I'd probably rather have a split up tool-set, than everything having to be in a single database for it to interoperate.

Re: Executable Is a SQLite Database

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, for the usual reason :-) I’m wondering if the anti-clickbait filter could benefit from some lightweight LLM integration. E.g. when the submission hits the front page, if the title was “de-clickbaited” and wasn’t changed manually yet, run it through a cheap model and see if that was the right call.

Maybe "your" at the beginning of a title should be replaced by "my" instead of getting stripped. That would preserve the non-clickbait meaning of all such titles I can spontaneously think of.

“SQLite database as an executable format”? A bit farther away from the original but captures the meaning and sounds more neutral.

Re: Executable Is a SQLite Database

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I was thinking that someone managed to put an ELF header in an SQLite file while keeping it compatible with SQLite... but no, "just" a new binary format. Very interesting nevertheless!
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