A Ghost with No Imagination: Building a Local Ofrenda Assistant with Gemma

Description and use

<p>*<em>What I Built<br> *</em><br> Language models have a habit that is charming in a poem and painful in a remembrance: they invent.</p> <p>Ask one to write a tribute to someone’s grandmother and it may give her a garden she never had, a phrase she never said, a lullaby she never sang. It sounds right, so it slips past you. A tribute to a person who has died is the last place for that.</p> <p>So I set out to build a ghost with no imagination.</p> <p>Ofrenda is a small local app for Día de los Muertos. You tell it who someone was to you: their name, years, favorite foods, favorite songs, and

Problem

<p>*<em>What I Built<br> *</em><br> Language models have a habit that is charming in a poem and painful in a remembrance: they invent.</p> <p>Ask one to write a tribute to someone’s grandmother and it may give her a garden she never had, a phrase she never said, a lullaby she never sang. It sounds right, so it slips past you. A tribute to a person who has died is the last place for that.</p> <p>So I set out to build a ghost with no imagination.</p> <p>Ofrenda is a small local app for Día de los Muertos. You tell it who someone was to you: their name, years, favorite foods, favorite songs, and

Outcome

<p>*<em>What I Built<br> *</em><br> Language models have a habit that is charming in a poem and painful in a remembrance: they invent.</p> <p>Ask one to write a tribute to someone’s grandmother and it may give her a garden she never had, a phrase she never said, a lullaby she never sang. It sounds right, so it slips past you. A tribute to a person who has died is the last place for that.</p> <p>So I set out to build a ghost with no imagination.</p> <p>Ofrenda is a small local app for Día de los Muertos. You tell it who someone was to you: their name, years, favorite foods, favorite songs, and

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A Ghost with No Imagination: Building a Local Ofrenda Assistant with Gemma

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