tom-villani

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The Topology of Depression: A System Dynamics View of My Depression and Recovery(tomatovillain.substack.com)
2 points by tom-villani 2mo ago|0 comments
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by tom-villani 3mo ago
Very cool!! I'll give it a spin! I've been using a similar approach for building a tool for agents to drive a running instance of MS word. The closed-testing loops are very powerful with agents.
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by tom-villani 3mo ago
Lol 100%! It's become a monstrosity of a format.
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All2md: PDF, Docx, PPTX, HTML, Email and 40 More to Markdown – Python+CLI+MCP(github.com)
4 points by tom-villani 3mo ago|1 comments
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by tom-villani 3mo ago
Built this to feed documents into LLM pipelines cleanly. Supports 15+ formats via a unified CLI, MCP, and Python API.
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The PDF, or How a Useful Idea Became Everybody Else's Problem(tomatovillain.substack.com)
5 points by tom-villani 3mo ago|2 comments
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by tom-villani 3mo ago
In similar work we're conducting at NJIT, we've found similar results. (We call it "Contextual Quality Contagion") Some of the most interesting comments here are about some of the real-world scenarios that are commonplac
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by tom-villani 3mo ago
I have yet to be able to get a single request that isn't downgraded to Opus-4.8 fairly quickly -- my most recent request (in Claude Desktop instead of Claude Code, hoping for better results) was "Please read and analyze my recent
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by tom-villani 3mo ago
Yes, this is definitely awesome. In eukaryotic cells (your cells) the cytoskeleton is needed to shape the cell, position DNA, and most importantly for this study, separate daughter cells allowing replication. Think of the complexity here, y
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by tom-villani 3mo ago
This is a good idea - I've been manually doing something similar for almost a year now. It's interesting to find when GPT-5.5 will catch issues with Opus-4.8's code, and vice versa. Good thinking to make it a skill.