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I was thinking about how terrible of an idea it was for an ol fortune 500 company of mine to put all their information and lessons learned into some proprietary
by hospitalJail 3y ago
I was thinking about how terrible of an idea it was for an ol fortune 500 company of mine to put all their information and lessons learned into some proprietary company infrastructure. This might have been alright, but at the end of the day people were uploading powerpoints. Heck it might even have been reasonable at the time, but with LLMs, it seems like storing everything in text/csv files would have been a much better idea.
The longer I live, the more I'm interested in saving all of my data into text files that I can parse later without vendor lock-in concern. Maybe other open formats as well, best tool for the job, ya know.
- mlyle 3y agopptx isn't bad. Indeed, you have more structure available than just text dumps. It's just a zip file containing a bunch of XML. And the slides XML isn't beautiful/super nice but not super ugly either. Naively processing it is lossy, but not as lossy as converting it to text. And most images end up as png in them. The most annoying thing is images with data (like equations).