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zalzal

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    You probably know this, but just want to say, founder to founder: don't listen to this argument at all. People are so fond of saying "just wait and the new model will do this." And…

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    100% agree. There is a bigger point too: People assume LLM capabilities are like FLOPs or something, as if they are a single number. In reality, building products is an exploration…

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    I'm curious, if you have that philosophy (which makes a lot of sense), you must have considered building is a sort of more abstract (but extensible) UI toolkit language and library…

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    It doesn't deal with images at all, but depending on what you're doing it might be useful in cleaning up the OCR text, e.g. asking LLMs to fix errors and then filtering the diffs.

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    I'm curious if it's useful! How do others try to solve use cases like this of mapping data between docs or strictly controlling LLM edits?

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    Show HN: Diff filtering, text mapping, and windowed transforms for LLM apps

    I couldn't find good Python libs to do this so ended up writing it myself.

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    Show HN: Simple Modern Poetry

    It's surprisingly time consuming to set up a new Python project with Poetry, GitHub workflows and PyPI publishing and the standard tools (black/ruff/mypy/etc). This is my tiny temp…

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    Show HN: Tiny library for more beautiful Python outputs

    Just a few super minimal conveniences, in case anyone finds them useful. It was one of those cases where the standard libs seem to make things too complicated so you write it yours…

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    Comment #32076418

    Hey appreciate the note. You can always see the full table of contents here on the about page for the book: https://www.holloway.com/b/making-things-think And fair point about the …

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    There will be shortly. The Holloway format has more features (comments, search, infographic, etc.) than an epub so we launch web at first (today). If you purchase now it includes i…

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    Josh with the publisher (Holloway) here. Yes, indeed, that's a key feature of our format. Especially expect we can see updates on the chapter on recent/emerging developments and co…