I vaguely recall a news article about some company, I want to say Apple but I'm not sure, patenting a process to use the camera to track your eyes to verify you're actually watching an ad to make them truly unskippable.
Roku makes me so sad. They had a product I really enjoyed using and admired them for making. Then slowly over the years they keep becoming more intrusive with their ads and more invasive with their data/privacy practices. My first Roku didn't need any sort of account, you just plugged it in and went. Now you have to register an account and I'm sure they are tracking everything I watch. They blanket the home screen with ads and I'm convinced they have programmed their remote to enable the microphone when I press pause/play every rand(20) < 1 just to remind me I can talk to my remote. Just waiting for the day it's revealed the mics on the remotes are always hot and feeding into their advertising models.
So you just sit there and take it? I don't see why people allow this behavior and treatment from companies, especially when there is a shift in direction. If people kee buying, they will never stop selling.
I know you are right, but there just aren't enough hours in the day to fight against every injustice or underhanded business tactic. Plus it takes a toll on my mental health to obsess about these things and I have to force myself not to do it. If there were a viable open source alternative that I could run, or better yet, a pre built version I could buy and plug into my TV then that's about the right level of righteous indignation I can muster for this particular case.
What was the source data here? It seems like a lot of the graphs are just the author's intuitive feel rather than being backed by any sort of hard data. Did I miss it in there somewhere?
Subj works absolutely the same as sdwebui’s img2img/sketch tab, but with less features. The ui may be overwhelming for the first time, but there’s nothing really hard if you just want to try it out.
Hmm, I have to say I'm pretty unimpressed with my initial experience here.
1. The sign up with email just endlessly redirected, click link in email, ask to sign up with email, put in email, click link in email, etc.
2. Fine, I'll sign in with Google.
3. A PDF parser? Seriously that's what all this fuss is about? There are so many options already out there, PDFBox, iText, Unstructured, PyPDF, PDF.js, PdfMiner not to mention extraction services available from the hyperscalers. Super confused why anyone needs this.
LLaMA Index is way more than a PDF parser. It's the most widely used RAG tool chain and their cloud looks to be a managed version of that.
Specific to the parser, they do show where tools like those you mentioned fail and their LLM based parser captures the full data the aforementioned miss.
Yeah, but their platform is basically a janky PDF parser which is why I don't understand what the hype is about.
It's easy to cherry pick a PDF for marketing purposes and claim you're better. I didn't miss it, I just don't believe marketing announcements at face value. I tried their parser on a PDF with a bit of complex formatting like multiple columns, tables and a couple images and it choked, spitting out one big markdown header with jumbled text. Not impressed.
To get good RAG performance you will need a good chunking strategy. Simply getting all the text is not good enough and knowing the boundaries of table, list, paragraph, section etc. is helpful.
Personally, I have always struggled to find enjoyment and meaning while working at a big company so I would ask yourself if a big company is right for you. If you decide to stay, try to make a couple of friends. People need to eat so see if anyone wants to eat lunch with you. There are always people who have been there for decades who understand how everything fits together, so seek those people out. Play the "new guy/gal" card, and see if you can get some time with them just to tap into their historical knowledge and start building a relationship with them.
You can't have someone be an effective leader in the company who doesn't believe in the mission anymore. As the leader now, you need to give them the speech that as you build this company, people are going to get on the bus and people are going to get off the bus. We value their contributions and everything they did to help us build the company. You can get through this.
