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PHP is having a really bad day today

Wow, I can see this type of service becoming a big hit these days. Similar to LP and analog photography comeback.

The town of Görlitz is truly charming. I visited after discovering that many scenes from my favorite movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel, were filmed there (https://www.discovergoerlitz.com/grandbudapest/)

Correct link for Docext: https://github.com/NanoNets/docext/blob/main/PDF2MD_README.m...

How does it compare to Datalab/Marker https://github.com/datalab-to/marker ? We evaluated many PDF->MD converters and this one performed the best, though it is not perfect.

In my experience Uber/Lyft/Bolt in their race to the bottom started tolerating cars in bad shape and drivers that don’t care about driving safely. Really hoping to see Waymo or any other robo-taxi in Europe soon.

This exemption is only there for "reader apps"

" 3.1.3(a) “Reader” Apps: Apps may allow a user to access previously purchased content or content subscriptions (specifically: magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, and video). ... Reader app developers may apply for the External Link Account Entitlement to provide an informational link in their app to a web site ...

It reminded me a part of the "The Tar Pit" esssay from The Mythical Man-month:

> Why is programming fun? What delights may its practitioner expect as his reward? > First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design.

...

> The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by the exertion of the imagination.

Yes, i have. The problem with using just an LLM is that while it reads and understands text, but it cannot reproduce it accurately. Additionaly the textbooks I've mentioned have many diagrams and illustrations in them (e.g. books on anatomy or biochemistry). I don't really care about extracting text from them, I just need them extracted as images alongside the text, and no LLM does that.

Great progress, but unfortunately, for our use case (converting medical textbooks from PDF to MD), the results are not as good as those by MinerU/PDF-Extract-Kit [1].

Also the collab link in the article is broken, found a functional one [2] in the docs.

[1] https://github.com/opendatalab/MinerU [2] https://colab.research.google.com/github/mistralai/cookbook/...

Yes, it is. I was just thinking about what happened when other companies did something similar.

Very sad article to read. I just expect the original Flutter will now die a slow death. I applaud the effort and hope they will be able to find a monetization model that works to support the development. There have been similar projects based on technologies that Microsoft has killed (Silverlight -> OpenSilver and various .NET-based cross-platform technologies) that serve their customers well. Unfortunately, none of them are in any way "mainstream" like Flutter is today.

Don't you think it's also a problem of the corporate-kindergarten culture, where everyone and everything is considered great, even though, as a salesperson, they haven't closed any deals in the last four months?

Thiel was right (9y ago) with the west being leader in innovation in the world of bits, but not in the world of atoms.

The full infographic presented in the talk: https://latentspaces.zhdk.ch/imb/

> ... quality happens only if somebody has the responsibility for it, and that "somebody" can be no more than one single person

So true, I've yet to see anything of quality produced by groupthink.