Chris

While working as a researcher in distributed systems, Dr. Christian Mayer found his love for teaching computer science students.To help students reach higher levels of Python success, he founded the programming education website Finxter.com that has taught exponential skills to millions of coders worldwide. He's the author of the best-selling programming books Python One-Liners (NoStarch 2020), The Art of Clean Code (NoStarch 2022), and The Book of Dash (NoStarch 2022). Chris also coauthored the Coffee Break Python series of self-published books. He's a computer science enthusiast, freelancer, and owner of one of the top 10 largest Python blogs worldwide.His passions are writing, reading, and coding. But his greatest passion is to serve aspiring coders through Finxter and help them to boost their skills. You can join his free email academy here.

(Fixed) ✅ OpenAI Invalid Request Error: Model GPT-4 Does Not Exist

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When working with OpenAI models, it’s not uncommon for you to encounter errors, such as the openai.error.InvalidRequestError. This error can be particularly frustrating when attempting to access a specific model like GPT-4. When you encounter the openai.error.InvalidRequestError with the message “The model: gpt-4 does not exist”, it means that your code is attempting to access … Read more

Those 4 OG Prompt Programming Tricks Still Work Today

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I just read one of the most influential papers titled “Prompt Programming for Large Language Models: Beyond the Few-Shot Paradigm” by Gwern Branwen, Connor Leahy, and Alexander Turner that first introduced prompt programming, a predecessor of today’s multi-six-figure skill prompt engineering. This short excursion in prompting history will be valuable for improving your prompting skills … Read more

Can ChatGPT Pass the US Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE)?

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Executive Summary This article summarizes a recent research paper titled Performance of ChatGPT on USMLE: Potential for AI-assisted medical education using large language models to examine how ChatGPT performs in the USMLE, a comprehensive US-based medical examination. 🔗 Quote: “medical students often spend approximately 300–400 hours of dedicated study time in preparation for this exam” … Read more

I Tried Cognosys.ai: Mind-Blown … Again 🤯

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Cognosys.ai is an innovative AI platform (aka. autonomous AI agent) to make AI more accessible and user-friendly. With their web-based AI agent, you can use large language models (LLMs) in your browser to accomplish complex tasks and improve your decision-making process for various big and small problems in your daily life or business. Here’s a … Read more

ChatGPT Code Interpreter Is Out

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ChatGPT Plus users can now use the “Code Interpreter” in Beta mode! If you cannot see it but you’re already a Plus member, you should activate it in the settings: OpenAI has just launched a novel and experimental feature for its celebrated language model, ChatGPT, called the “Code Interpreter”. This addition allows the model to … Read more

How I Get YouTube Thumbnails Without API Keys or Libraries (e.g., Python)

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You can get the YouTube thumbnail if you don’t want to create and use an API key from Google with this simple trick: YouTube uses a consistent URL pattern for their video thumbnails, which is: https://img.youtube.com/vi/<video_id>/maxresdefault.jpg The <video_id> is the part after “watch?v=” in the YouTube video link. For example, consider the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5I55aOgX2o … Read more

Study Reveals GitHub Copilot Improves Developer Productivity by 55.8%

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In a recent interaction with one of my Discord Mastermind Group members, I learned about an interesting paper from Microsoft Research, GitHub Research, and MIT School of Management titled “The Impact of AI on Developer Prodcutivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot”. In this short article, allow me to give you the TLDR. 👇 💡 TL;DR: The … Read more

I Read the World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report 2023 And Wasn’t Impressed

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The Future of Jobs Survey 2023 comprises responses from 803 companies across 27 industries and 45 economies, employing over 11.3 million workers. Key findings from the report are: The data source and report are available at the World Economic Forum website here. Let’s have a look at the most interesting graphs and charts from the … Read more

Remove Substring From String (Easy Online Tool)

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This is the world’s easiest online substring remover for web developers, random web surfers, and programmers. Simply insert your text in the form below, hit the “Remove Substring” button, and you’ll receive back a single string devoid of the specified substring. Click a button, receive a substring-free string. No nonsense or clutter. 🔧 Online Substring … Read more

Cross-Species Cooperation: Uniting Humans and Embodied AI through English Language

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I stumbled upon an interesting new MIT and IBM Watson AI Lab project titled Building Cooperative Embodied Agents Modularly with Large Language Models. AI Breaks Out Of Your Screen If you’re like me, you are not deep into AI research, so let’s start with the question: What are embodied agents anyway? 👨‍💻 Definition: Embodied agents … Read more

7 Key Insights on How Generative AI Will Change the Economy

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👨‍💻 In this article, I’ll share seven key insights on how ChatGPT and large language models (LLMs) will change the job markets and global economy after reading the most recent McKinsey report on “The economic potential of generative AI”. Insight 1: Generative AI’s Potential to Infuse Trillions into the Global Economy The potential economic influence … Read more