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Confucian sage Marty Krofft:
> As the fire engulfed a large portion of Goldwyn Studios, this A.P. ran up to near where Marty was and yelled, "We may be able to save some of the sets!" Marty, he told me, instantly yelled, "Fuck the sets! Make sure nobody gets hurt!" And nobody got hurt.
Embeddings: What they are and why they matter
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/23/embeddings/
I took my recent PyBay talk and turned it into the most comprehensive answer I could possibly provide to the question "What are embeddings?"
It also helps for the very common case of setting the first non-zero string:
someval := cmp.Or(os.Getenv("MY_VAR"), "default")
cmp.Or is very simple. It returns its first non-zero argument.
This turns out to be very handy for comparisons:
// Sort by Field1 ASC, Field2 DESC
return cmp.Or(
cmp.Compare(a.Field1, b.Field1),
cmp.Compare(b.Field2, a.Field2),
)
Simon Willison
