Joe Barrow
@jbarrow.bsky.social
NLP @ Pattern Data
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And I still haven’t learned what Skibidi means. 😡
October 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
And I still haven’t learned what Skibidi means. 😡
Now, some acknowledgments: this work was made possible thanks to a generous compute grant from Lambda!
And I've got a hosted version of the model that I'll be sharing in a couple days hosted on @modal-labs.bsky.social, which makes it basically free for me to host and scale
And I've got a hosted version of the model that I'll be sharing in a couple days hosted on @modal-labs.bsky.social, which makes it basically free for me to host and scale
September 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Now, some acknowledgments: this work was made possible thanks to a generous compute grant from Lambda!
And I've got a hosted version of the model that I'll be sharing in a couple days hosted on @modal-labs.bsky.social, which makes it basically free for me to host and scale
And I've got a hosted version of the model that I'll be sharing in a couple days hosted on @modal-labs.bsky.social, which makes it basically free for me to host and scale
As part of the paper, I'm working on releasing the dataset and FFDNet models on HuggingFace.
Those will be out in the coming days, you can follow along here: github.com/jbarrow/comm...
🤗Paper: huggingface.co/papers/2509....
arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2509.16506
Those will be out in the coming days, you can follow along here: github.com/jbarrow/comm...
🤗Paper: huggingface.co/papers/2509....
arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2509.16506
GitHub - jbarrow/commonforms: CommonForms dataset and models
CommonForms dataset and models. Contribute to jbarrow/commonforms development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
As part of the paper, I'm working on releasing the dataset and FFDNet models on HuggingFace.
Those will be out in the coming days, you can follow along here: github.com/jbarrow/comm...
🤗Paper: huggingface.co/papers/2509....
arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2509.16506
Those will be out in the coming days, you can follow along here: github.com/jbarrow/comm...
🤗Paper: huggingface.co/papers/2509....
arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2509.16506
Now, just because we filtered for the cleanest forms doesn't mean we got _perfect_ forms. There are still a lot of inconsistencies in how people prepare forms! In future work I'll be looking at mitigating data quality issues like these.
September 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Now, just because we filtered for the cleanest forms doesn't mean we got _perfect_ forms. There are still a lot of inconsistencies in how people prepare forms! In future work I'll be looking at mitigating data quality issues like these.
(Note, this doesn't _just_ apply to Acrobat, it's also better than Apple Preview -- neither Acrobat nor Preview even make an attempt at checkboxes, and they're often fooled by any straight, horizontal line. Left: Acrobat, Right: FFDNet)
September 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
(Note, this doesn't _just_ apply to Acrobat, it's also better than Apple Preview -- neither Acrobat nor Preview even make an attempt at checkboxes, and they're often fooled by any straight, horizontal line. Left: Acrobat, Right: FFDNet)
If we train object detectors to find the form fields on these pages, we get a much cleaner set of forms than if you used Acrobat to automatically prepare your form. (Left: Acrobat, Right: FFDNet).
September 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
If we train object detectors to find the form fields on these pages, we get a much cleaner set of forms than if you used Acrobat to automatically prepare your form. (Left: Acrobat, Right: FFDNet).
Step 1 is to filter out for the cleanest forms possible. We start with 8MM PDFs from Common Crawl, and work our way down to ~60k of the cleanest forms we can find. The results is a ~500k page dataset, called CommonForms.
September 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Step 1 is to filter out for the cleanest forms possible. We start with 8MM PDFs from Common Crawl, and work our way down to ~60k of the cleanest forms we can find. The results is a ~500k page dataset, called CommonForms.
Yeah I wonder if that statistic is flipped between the cities (though operated by the same provider — Lyft — I assume?)
No way that 99 out of every 100 riders in Boston have visited more than 27 stations?
No way that 99 out of every 100 riders in Boston have visited more than 27 stations?
May 31, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Yeah I wonder if that statistic is flipped between the cities (though operated by the same provider — Lyft — I assume?)
No way that 99 out of every 100 riders in Boston have visited more than 27 stations?
No way that 99 out of every 100 riders in Boston have visited more than 27 stations?
Pretty sure you want that number to be lower. :p (my stats for DC ridership)
May 31, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Pretty sure you want that number to be lower. :p (my stats for DC ridership)
Would absolutely love that!
March 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Would absolutely love that!
"AI TOPS our stock price"
- Nvidia, today
- Nvidia, today
January 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"AI TOPS our stock price"
- Nvidia, today
- Nvidia, today
Agree, my ideal would be if you could type into an old, cheap, refurb kindle personally.
Here’s a video of a person typing into the Palma: www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/...
My experience (tablet) is that it’s maybe 10s from pickup to writing — wake up (3s), navigate to apps (2s), open app (3-5s)?
Here’s a video of a person typing into the Palma: www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/...
My experience (tablet) is that it’s maybe 10s from pickup to writing — wake up (3s), navigate to apps (2s), open app (3-5s)?
Palma as a FreeWrite
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December 22, 2024 at 8:56 AM
Agree, my ideal would be if you could type into an old, cheap, refurb kindle personally.
Here’s a video of a person typing into the Palma: www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/...
My experience (tablet) is that it’s maybe 10s from pickup to writing — wake up (3s), navigate to apps (2s), open app (3-5s)?
Here’s a video of a person typing into the Palma: www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/...
My experience (tablet) is that it’s maybe 10s from pickup to writing — wake up (3s), navigate to apps (2s), open app (3-5s)?
I’ve got one of the older, larger eInk tablets and use it for reading books/papers and taking notes. Battery after several years lasts about a week of average use, longer if I keep WiFi off.
December 21, 2024 at 9:29 PM
I’ve got one of the older, larger eInk tablets and use it for reading books/papers and taking notes. Battery after several years lasts about a week of average use, longer if I keep WiFi off.
Not necessarily hitting the price point but there are eInk mini tablets (e.g. Boox Palma at around $200) that have Android, no sim (so no phone distractions), and long battery life (thanks to the eInk and being generally underpowered). They accept keyboards, too.
December 21, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Not necessarily hitting the price point but there are eInk mini tablets (e.g. Boox Palma at around $200) that have Android, no sim (so no phone distractions), and long battery life (thanks to the eInk and being generally underpowered). They accept keyboards, too.
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Holy moly that created an extra half page of space!
December 18, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Holy moly that created an extra half page of space!
Aged white tea, the kind that comes in a compressed disk or ball. My favorite kind of tea, imo they taste naturally quite sweet. Yunnan Sourcing has a bunch!
November 25, 2024 at 5:58 AM
Aged white tea, the kind that comes in a compressed disk or ball. My favorite kind of tea, imo they taste naturally quite sweet. Yunnan Sourcing has a bunch!