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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.discovergoerl…

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…

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: magazi…

We built a tiny web app that lets you connect to any MCP server and chat with it right from the browser. It spins up MCP servers in E2B sandboxes and converts the stdio to SSE. The…

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 she…

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 ma…

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 coll…

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 s…

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…

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 produce…