richardlblair

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by richardlblair 8mo ago
Right? It's asking for trouble. I was in the repebble comments a few days ago and this person rolled their own for very obvious reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47078454
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by richardlblair 8mo ago
Few understand that whether we like it or not we are all forced to play this game, capitalism.
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by richardlblair 8mo ago
See, you were standing on principles until you brought the commentors net worth into the argument making it personal. Easy way undermine the rest of your comment
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by richardlblair 8mo ago
I too am very excited. I had a voice recorder laying around and have worked that into my workflow over the past few months. Although, my AI assistant is a cobbled together set of python scripts. What are you using for your AI assistant?
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by richardlblair 8mo ago
That one made me lol. This same conversation happened a little while ago. Both powerpoint and excel are well ahead of the competition.
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by richardlblair 8mo ago
Yet everyone drives a truck and are incapable of seeing a child infront of their vehicle.
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by richardlblair 8mo ago
Indeed, but a rock solid sandboxing and isolation strategy is step 0.
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by richardlblair 8mo ago
The reddit conversation seems to allude to you being correct.
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by richardlblair 9mo ago
Yes - the author's observations are not wrong. Companies, on paper, are logical. However, as one professor told us in college "All companies are perfect until you introduce the humans". Humans are messy. Humans work outside o
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by richardlblair 9mo ago
(not an expert) I see this with Cursor all the time with tools. Cursor will stop editing files in the editor and use the command line to echo edits into a file. It's so frustrating.
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by richardlblair 9mo ago
Reminds me of a project on here a while ago where the author had used NFC tags and home assistant to give his kids a digital library with little tap cards.
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by richardlblair 10mo ago
Somewhat true - I usually find that in these languages the patterns are there they are just less obvious.
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by richardlblair 11mo ago
I agree that Word has a million replacements. Hell, I usually just roll with a markdown file. But nothing beats excel or power point.
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by richardlblair 11mo ago
Oh friend, if only you knew. Not only that, software nerds are rediscovering that they can build so much in Excel. You don't need an app for everything.
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by richardlblair 11mo ago
Or power point. I had to make some slides for the first time in a decade. I was in Google Slides for 5 minutes, then I tried to import an SVG. That was the moment I booted into windows for the first time in 4 months. I started up Power Poin
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by richardlblair 11mo ago
Using your comment to address overall sentiment in this comment thread. Builders build. Sometimes it's not about picking the right tools for the job or starting with the right choices. Sometimes it's just about building. To use yo
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by richardlblair 11mo ago
A very human and authentic response. Love to see it. Fantastic for recruiting, too.
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by richardlblair 11mo ago
There was a post on here recently about how you should build your own agent, and I completely agree. I'd say most competent developers should be building even more complex projects than an agent. Once you do you quickly realize how it&
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by richardlblair 11mo ago
My use case is pretty specific - I have a 6 week old baby. So, I've been walking on my walking pad with her in the carrier. Typing in that situation is really not pleasant for anyone, especially the baby. Speed isn't my concern, I
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by richardlblair 1y ago
I've been building tools for stuff I don't want to do. Any task where I need to take some amount of data, structured or unstructured, and need a specific outcome is perfect. That way I can spend more time on the thing I do want to
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by richardlblair 1y ago
The new Qwen model is supposed to be very good. Honestly, I've gotten really far simply by transcribing audio with whisper, having a cheap model clean up the output to make it make sense (especially in a coding context), and copying th
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by richardlblair 1y ago
The technical capacity of a CTO matters less then the CTOs ability to stay in their lane (for a lack of a better term). I once worked for a company with a self taught CTO (and not the good kind). They had a number of star players, and this
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by richardlblair 1y ago
It's not really about SEC filings, though. While we folks on HN would never think of hard copies of invoices, but much of the world still operates this way. As mentioned above I have about 200 construction invoices. They are all format
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by richardlblair 1y ago
I had mentioned this when the new QWEN model dropped - I have a stack of construction invoices that fail through both OCR and OpenAI. It's a hard (and very interesting) problem space.
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by richardlblair 1y ago
Tbh, I had run the images through a few filters. The images that went through to AI were high contrast, black and white, with noise such as highlighters removed. I had tried 1 shot and few shot. I think it was largely a formatting issue. Li
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by richardlblair 1y ago
What's the cost of the fine-tuned model? If you were attempting to optimize for cost, would it be worth it to detect scan layouts to get better OCR? Honestly, I'm such a noob in this space. I had 1 project I needed to do, didn&#x2
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by richardlblair 1y ago
My dataset could be described in a similar way. Very low quality, very odd layouts, information density where it's completely unnecessary. And these contractors were relatively good operators compared to most.
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by richardlblair 1y ago
It did not, unfortunately. When CV failed gpt-4o failed as well. I even had a list of valid invoice numbers & dates to help the models. Still, most failed. Construction invoices are not great.
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by richardlblair 1y ago
I ripped into cursor today. It didn't change anything but I felt better lmao
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by richardlblair 1y ago
With Qwen I went as stupid as I could: please provide the bounding box metadata for pytesseract for the above image. And it spat it out.

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