Santa's got some upgrades 😁 www.noradsanta.org/en/map

Interesting: according to this paper Gemini, Llama 3, Gemma 2 work best with JSON format. Many models drop in performance when tasked for structured output.

https://buff.ly/4eZyv2U

#ml # ai

Damn: researchers at Lawrence Livermore are using o1 to do complicated nuclear fusion research.

When people say AI will increase the pace of scientific R&D, this is what they're talking about.

www.theinformation.com/articles/why...

Trying out Docling for PDF info extraction and it’s surprisingly good! The chunk feature splits PDFs into metadata (labels like headers, paragraphs, tabels etc.) and text (actual content). @tedunderwood.me seems like the pdf problem is close to being solved!
github.com/DS4SD/docling
#NLPSky

I find it amusing that the emerging standard for giving an LLM the ability to work with your technology is just a text file explaining clearly how your technology works

(Once folks realize they also need to sell the LLMs on why they should use a technology; things will get wild)

llmstxt.org

During most of the vast history of humanity, technologies have evolved gradually, not through leaps of genius, but slow cultural adaption.

Before the scientific method, easy communication & printed books, innovation happened at the level of societies, not people. www2.psych.ubc.ca/~henrich/pdf...