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Simon Willison
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How I Studied for My Ham Radio General Exam
Simon Willison documents how he used LLMs to study for the ham radio General license exam — using Claude to explain questions, generate practice problems, and fill in knowledge gaps. A practical case study in LLM-assisted learning for a technical domain.
Making Large Language Models Work For You
Simon Willison's WordCamp 2023 keynote on making LLMs work for you — a practical, grounded introduction covering what LLMs actually are, their real limitations, and the specific use cases where they're genuinely useful today. One of the better practitioner introductions from 2023.
Semantic Search and Q&A with GPT-3 and Datasette
Simon Willison's tutorial on building Q&A over documentation using GPT-3, embeddings, and Datasette — an early practical guide to semantic search that Willison built for his own blog. One of the first clearly explained end-to-end RAG implementations from a respected practitioner.
How to Play with the GPT-3 Language Model
Simon Willison's practical guide to getting started with GPT-3 — written in June 2022 when most developers still hadn't touched it. One of the clearest early explainers on the OpenAI API and what the model could actually do.