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Nary a mention of LLMs in the readme. That was an unexpected but pleasant surprise, when the idea of converting something to markdown for LLMs is floated as if
by benatkin 2y ago
Nary a mention of LLMs in the readme. That was an unexpected but pleasant surprise, when the idea of converting something to markdown for LLMs is floated as if it's new and the greatest thing since sliced bread. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=LLM%20markdown&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
It's interesting to read the code. It's mostly glue code, and most of it is in single 1101 line file. But it does indeed say what the README says it does. Here is the special handling for Wikipedia: https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/blob/main/src/markitdown/_markitdown.py#L216 https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/blob/main/src/markit...
Edit: good to see the one from yesterday flagged. I tried to assume good intent, but also wondered if it was a place to draw a line in the sand. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42405758 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42405758
Edit 2: ah, it came down to simple violation of the Show HN rules. I didn't notice, but yeah, that's definitely the case.
- zamadatix 2y ago> Nary a mention of LLMs in the readme. That was an unexpected but pleasant surprise No surprise it has still managed to come up in the comments in spite of that!
- benatkin 2y agoYep, and that’s fine. It’s just that there is a lot of false assumptions and magical thinking going around about LLMs and Markdown and I was glad to not find any in the README.