cccybernetic

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by cccybernetic 1y ago
An incredibly written film that's infinitely quotable. "Balls. We want the finest wines available to humanity. We want them here, and we want them now!" "Here Hare Here" "I feel like a pig shat in my head.&quot
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by cccybernetic 2y ago
Most PDF parsers give you coordinate data (bounding boxes) for extracted text. Use these to draw highlights over your PDF viewer - users can then click the highlights to verify if the extraction was correct. The tricky part is maintaining a
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by cccybernetic 2y ago
Shameless plug: I'm working on a startup in this space. But the bounding box problem hits close to home. We've found Unstructured's API gives pretty accurate box coordinates, and with some tweaks you can make them even better
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by cccybernetic 2y ago
Sure, you can try the demo at: https://www.subsystem.ai/demo
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by cccybernetic 2y ago
I don't feed documents directly to an LLM. First, extract and process the data in a structured way that maintains the hierarchy and metadata of the content (this is important!). Then convert this into a scheme that you can control — it
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by cccybernetic 2y ago
I built a web app that extracts data from documents, like PDFs, Word, etc. I've seen people say "GPT wrapper", but it consistently outperforms similar tools in the space. My main customer is a private equity fund that randoml
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by cccybernetic 2y ago
I built a drag-and-drop document converter that extracts text into custom columns (for CSV) or keys (for JSON). You can schedule it to run at certain times and update a database as well. I haven't had issues with hallucinations. If you
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by cccybernetic 2y ago
I haven't seen it framed this way, but yeah - well put.
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by cccybernetic 2y ago
Absolutely, email is in my profile. Please reach out.
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by cccybernetic 2y ago
This is a problem I’m working on. I’m a software engineer at major US research university developing AI-powered software to improve critical reading and writing skills in higher ed. The idea is to provide immediate, high-quality feedback to
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by cccybernetic 2y ago
Awesome, thanks for sharing.
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by cccybernetic 2y ago
To add to this, John Perry Barlow, one of the Dead's two main lyricists, co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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by cccybernetic 2y ago
This presumes a theory of justice where "social benefit" is relevant at all — not everyone accepts this.
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by cccybernetic 3y ago
this is the hardware version of the (in)famous hackernews comment on Dropbox: > you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the
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by cccybernetic 3y ago
There's something to this. I’m a senior dev in NYC with ~7 years experience working across the stack (NextJS/ReactJS, Node, Python, Postgres, SQL Server, etc). I’m also not half bad at design. I haven’t been able to get a response
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by cccybernetic 3y ago
Insulin is available at Walmart for about $25. The newer analog versions cost around $80. It's just private label Novo Nordisk, so all high quality.
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by cccybernetic 3y ago
I see your point, but honestly, the only way I can respond to your question is with more questions. Why do we expect deep psychological or philosophical insights to make things better for us, or lead to “improvements”? Why do we think that
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by cccybernetic 3y ago
This is a very limited perspective, reducing Freud and the development of psychotherapy theory to, as you put it, feeling “a bit better”. Freud was as much a mystic, philosopher, and literary genius as he was a psychiatrist. I've found
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by cccybernetic 3y ago
Similar thing just happened to me. Click on link > Get API Key > "We are sorry, but you do not have access to Early Access Apps" Since I'm the admin, I checked and confirmed that I do have access. It's enabled for
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by cccybernetic 3y ago
Thanks for sharing, you're right - that does improve performance!
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by cccybernetic 3y ago
Obviously not. Perfectly reasonable to share anecdotes though. Also, I ran a few different tests, and every GPT-4 response was superior, but I didn't want to clutter my comment with queries and code.
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by cccybernetic 3y ago
I'm glad there's growing competition, but GPT4 still outperforms. Here's a recent question I asked: Could you please provide me with a query for my PostgreSQL table? It consists of three columns: 'id,' 'teaser
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Prompts for Cleaning and Processing Data with AI(subsystem.ai)
2 points by cccybernetic 3y ago|1 comments
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by cccybernetic 3y ago
A blog on using using LLMs to clean, process, and enrich data. It includes prompts and code snippets. The post draws on my experiences and two really interesting papers: - Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data? ( https://arxiv.o
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by cccybernetic 3y ago
The API isn't redundant, it's convenient. You don't have to use it. Just delete the /api folder and make your requests either from the client side or fetch the data inside the handler that you're complaining about.
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by cccybernetic 3y ago
I'm the founder of a startup (www.getsubsystem.com) that builds solutions on top of Airtable, so I'm familiar with their systems. While it's true that their REST API has some sharp-edges, particularly around linked fields (co
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by cccybernetic 3y ago
It takes < 10 seconds to go from no account to database w/ bit.io
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by cccybernetic 3y ago
Consumers have always been willing to pay a premium for simplicity & convenience. No difference here: devs will pay for DX.
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by cccybernetic 3y ago
There’s a lot of magic with Vercel, but I think the true “wedge” was clear to many people: DX. The trick was really the execution, which they nailed. They realized early that there was a whole class of developers out there, many of them qui
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by cccybernetic 3y ago
yeah I agree with a most of this, but useEffect is still a shit show. It's nasty, and it sits in your code like an anvil, heavy and terse, it even looks like one, with it's lopsided dependency array. The semantics are so strange,

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