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by bambax 2y ago
What will happen is that when you ask the AI to summarize a book to remove the fluff, it will inject random mentions of how the main character decided to drink a Coke. Let's go with truly open models! you say. That way we can be sure t
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by bambax 2y ago
Thanks!
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by bambax 2y ago
> Does ChatGPT Search have trust? Open AI isn't monetizing its search just yet, but AI has its own issues with hallucinations. Everywhere where SEO people congregate, they talk only about this: how to produce content that will eve
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by bambax 2y ago
That's cool. Can you talk a little about the tech: front end, back end, and API (Kling, apparently)?
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by bambax 2y ago
The idea is really nice, but AWS sounds overkill? Using the same Python file with an Sqlite db (or a text file) and using an API like Mailgun to send the emails, it could run on any machine with a plain cron job? I built a comparable system
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by bambax 2y ago
If they provide the training set it's reproducible and therefore verifiable. If not, it's not really "open", it's bs-open.
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> As an academic mathematician who spent their entire life collaborating openly on research problems and sharing my ideas with other people, it frustrates me [that] I am not even to give you a coherent description of some basic facts
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by bambax 2y ago
This book How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty, by Sarah Bakewell (2011) is an incredible introduction to Montaigne. I greatly enjoyed it and recommend it fondly to anyone's interested in the man or what he had t
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by bambax 2y ago
Thanks, but I'm sorry to say, the result is... bad. It invents words ("rusticas" in the second line of the title of the output, isn't anywhere in the source file -- it's not even a French word). And it completely dr
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by bambax 2y ago
Looks interesting, but the cost is prohibitive for a hobby project. Also, it doesn't really solve my problem. Google Vision already returns the coordinates of each word (and even of each letter), so it's easy to know where the wor
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I just tested Gemini 1.5 Flash (interactively on Google AI Studio) and the results are far from acceptable. OCR seems good, on par with Google Vision. But the footnotes are not properly identified on most pages; they are properly identified
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by bambax 2y ago
That edition (the Chéruel edition) is the first integral edition of the Mémoires. It's been OCRed a long time ago and has been available in text form for 20+ years. But it has almost no footnotes. The edition I'm working on here,
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by bambax 2y ago
Well, in my experience Google Vision is far, far ahead of Tesseract.
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by bambax 2y ago
You are right that the quality of the scans is paramount! Unfortunately I don't have access to the physical books and have to work with the scans as they are (they're not good). But I will look at Scantailor, it looks interesting.
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by bambax 2y ago
Yes, that's one of the (many) benefits of logging! And in fact, there is a hiatus, because the introduction at the beginning is from a different "sub-book", where the pages are numbered using roman numerals. Typically the int
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Hallucinations are problematic, and they're hard to defend against, if there's only one source of truth. I was surprised by the creativity that LLMs showed for the simple task of placing footnotes references, as I explain in the p
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by bambax 2y ago
I will try that, thanks.
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Yes. The original idea was to have some LLM place footnotes references in the text, based on the content of the footnotes themselves, but as I say in the blog post, that failed spectacularly. Now another idea is to manually put placeholders
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Show HN: Adventures in OCR(blog.medusis.com)
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by bambax 2y ago
If I had a dollar every time someone on the Internet announced Google's demise I would be very happy. Also, to think that AI-enabled search will deliver us from ads is naive. SEO firms talk and pitch about AI constantly, either to push
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by bambax 2y ago
This is excellent. Some features to add (maybe): - voting - tagging / filtering / sorting - commenting? some way to let people meet around an idea? Is there some sort of moderation currently?
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> Having said that, the biggest caveat to the “10^25 years” result is one to which I fear Google drew insufficient attention. Namely, for the exact same reason why (as far as anyone knows) this quantum computation would take ~10^25 year
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I never said I built my own data center; I think you have me confused with the OP.
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This is a plea to use TypeScript instead of JS. Why not. Strong typing is certainly great. But the reason I don't use TypeScript isn't any of those listed: it's because it needs a compilation step, and I don't want that.
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Does a Civic fly when it has a wing bolted on it? Coz my setup serves pages alright.
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I self host on an NAS at home with a free Cloudfront CDN on top; it's really easy to do and for simple websites (including dynamic ones backed by an sqlite db) that don't receive excessive traffic, it works well and is almost free
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Of course, never put all your eggs in the same basket. Have a different registrar as well, and maybe a different CDN ready to go at a moment's notice.
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I upgrade my phone every 4-5 years and even that is overkill. I could totally use today the Moto G that I had bought in 2014 for the grand sum of €150.
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Yes it's despicable. I'm moving my domains from Gandi one at a time and the cost is 4 times less!!
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Where AI really really shine is to help an engineer get proficient in a language they don't know well. Simon Willison says this somewhere and in my experience it's very true. If you can code, and you understand the problem (or are

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