Post AdAp1RDADnPa5Fxwfo by phiofx@hachyderm.io
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(DIR) Post #AdAn6EA5y0M19QgdGK by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
2023-12-25T16:10:10Z
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I suspect a neat benefit of everyone wanting to build "chat with your PDF" things is that there's a sudden flood of extra effort being put into PDF text extraction and parsing libraries right now, across a bunch of different languages
(DIR) Post #AdAnMCavYs3evKr2X2 by graham_knapp@hachyderm.io
2023-12-25T16:13:07Z
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@simon which is stronger - excitement about LLMs or despair over pdf formats? Find out in 2024...
(DIR) Post #AdAp1RDADnPa5Fxwfo by phiofx@hachyderm.io
2023-12-25T16:31:44Z
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@simon I suspect its an unsolvable problem as there has been plenty of motivation to do so already.Pdf is really a black hole. You cant recover something that has been sucked inside the pdf horizon (except maybe at the end of the Universe according to some fancy physics theories).
(DIR) Post #AdApEgOD6J4UvGRrNI by dginev@mathstodon.xyz
2023-12-25T16:34:10Z
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@simon That, but also an increased appreciation for structured formats as PDF alternatives.
(DIR) Post #AdApYLZiCLa29wCl2e by Scmbradley@mathstodon.xyz
2023-12-25T16:37:36Z
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@simon this has given me a great idea. Chat with a pdf. Yes hello, I'd like to talk to the binomial distribution with parameters 3,7. Tell me about your second moment.
(DIR) Post #AdAqtEXbe4OqNZk8jQ by 3psboyd@mastodon.social
2023-12-25T16:52:40Z
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@simon was just talking about that on the datasette discord.
(DIR) Post #AdB18sAtZMxvBcDToO by eichin@mastodon.mit.edu
2023-12-25T18:47:40Z
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@simonLet's just hope Flickr doesn't go back to *their* roots (right after they pivoted from being a game-resource engine, they briefly had "chat with your pictures" as a tagline; now they have the regrettable opportunity to bring that back literally :)