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What was your approach to benchmarking an adversarial agent? This is an open problem that I came across (in a different domain), as the search space can be really wide. It's hard t…

Google is killing Android. Along with the side-loading changes, I'm losing the desire to keep using it, as it's no longer an open OS. What's the point of those changes? Does Google…

Happy to see competition in rerankers! Good luck with your product. My questions: what languages do your models currently support? Did you perform multilingual benchmarks? Couldn't…

Easier to handle edge-cases - real examples: - What if certain rows in a table don't need to be embedded? - What if we use a single API key for embedding database rows and user que…

I agree with the author - introducing a vector database often isn't worth the extra complexity. Personally, I can vouch for ParadeDB: https://www.paradedb.com/ It adds extra extens…

I've also thought about creating a Codenames bot: what if we could use semantic similarity to batch words together? Surely, this can be done using a prebuilt embedding model and cl…

Glad to hear that :) Thanks for developing Marker!

Thanks for answering! In my case, I don't directly use RAG; but rather post-process documents via LLMs to extract a set of specific answers. That's also why I've asked about dedupl…

How do you combine the outputs? Wouldn't there be data duplication between unstructured text and tables?

Did you encounter hidden costs when using Azure Document Intelligence? I processed some PDFs using the paid tier, but the resulting costs were way higher than expected, despite usi…

For my use case, overall Marker seems to work pretty well - but it has issues with tables. Merged cells, misplaced headers, and so forth. I'm currently extracting Polish PDFs that …

This aurora was really powerful! I could see it with a naked eye from a town in central Poland, despite cloudy weather and light pollution. Feels great to finally see it in person

Surprised by the amount of negative comments. Kudos to the team! This is very impressive to accomplish in 24h with a 3-man team.

Thanks for the links! I'll read them :)

I still don't see how developing high quality software is related to one's personal viewpoint on taxes.

I agree that it's problematic, however: > welfare/health care system is bad, taxes are not used well There's a widespread lack of trust in the Polish government, which decreased ev…

Good questions, no clue. The answer probably lies somewhere between a "badly designed tax system" and "stimulating growth of the IT sector".

Similiar laws are in Poland, except they're not really enforced. It's really rare that the tax office would prove a company exists solely for tax optimization. The risk virtually d…

How is tax optimization related to the quality of developed software?

Taxes. Standard tax rate (on UoP) is 12% up to ~30k USD, the rest is taxed 32%. On top of that, the employer pays a social security fee, its rate rises proportionally to income. As…

I've used and had fun with Game Maker at his age - not sure how it fares with 3D though, there might be better alternatives nowadays :)

Smartphones immediately come to mind.

Meanwhile, my blog got some of its posts de-indexed in the latest Google update, despite trying to write high quality content.

> A 10Gbps link fully utilized (minus some overheads), translates roughly to 3 Petabytes per month, that's 36 petabytes per year, almost double their advertized amount of bandwidth…