library hacker at @bsb_muenchen. opinions are entirely my own. https://xitter.cf/t.co/SncEqarYjL https://xitter.cf/t.co/h6ha3FhSpF 🐘

Munich, Germany
Joined July 2013
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It saddens me how such an imaginative and creative show struggles to get a season 2, this is one of those shows that's gonna be cited as a main inspiration for movies and games 20 years from now, it's peak sci fi.
Preview of "Scavengers Reign" Season 2. Unfortunately, this new season has not yet been greenlighted. So the creators of the show & Green Street studio produced this concept trailer in-house. Full video >> catsuka.com/news/2024-11-05/… cc @josephbennett00 @charleshuettner
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hands-on colqwen + vespa for advance document retrieval system the blog is here: notion.so/antaripasaha/Build…
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hello November by Herge
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rag on the streets, information retrieval in the sheets. an embeddings vector is just one feature. learn to retrieve.
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Are Visual Language Models a game changer for OCR and the transcription of challenging texts ? @PandorAI1995 just published a lengthy report on @huggingface with one main catch: it's complicated.
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My deck from #HaystackConf is now available! What You See Is What You Search: Vision Language Models for PDF Retrieval ColPali, a newly proposed retrieval model, presents a more efficient alternative using Vision Language Models (VLMs) to embed entire PDF pages, including text, figures, and charts. The resulting contextualized multi-vector representations of the PDF page improve retrieval quality while simplifying the extraction and indexing process. docs.google.com/presentation…
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Found the original John Ford photo in the LIFE archives, and I must ask: how exactly is this nightmare fuel an improvement over a slightly blurred image?
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The PS5 Pro has lines across the middle of the console which are a nod to the lines Sony executives were doing when they priced the thing
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So the toddler discovered his sister's awful strawberry scented shampoo and distributed it over every imaginable living room surface. 😭😭 The smell is absolutely nauseating 🤢
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Hahahaha, Sony have COMPLETELY lost it, 799€ for a minor upgrade to a console that has launched at 399€? You have got to be kidding me. And without a disc drive to boot. And the vertical stand is a separate purchase, too. I was ready to pre-order immediately, but hell no.
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The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine: 404media.co/right-to-repair-… about fourthievesvinegar.org/ Hepatitis C medication "Sovaldi" is $1,000 per pill, $84,000 for entire treatment. The DIY version is $3.57 per pill, or $300 for the entire treatment.
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Illustrator, director, and manga-ka Takafumi Ieiri, AKA Panyome, passed away a few days ago at 65. Among their many works was this tongue in cheek yet scathing criticism of 1980's otaku culture. zimmerit.moe/otaku-insects-1…
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Im Ernst: Es hat in den letzten 2 Jahren in der internationalen Gemeinschaft und von Seiten der #Ukraine nicht an Bemühungen gefehlt, Putin zu einem Ende des russischen Angriffskriegs zu bewegen. Doch seine Antwort darauf ist jedes Mal: noch mehr Leid, Tod & Zerstörung. Ein🧵 1/6
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Today we release our first foundation model. OCRonos-Vintage is a 124 million parameters model pretrained end-to-end by @pleiasfr on 18 billion tokens of cultural heritage archives, with nearly SOTA results for OCR correction in English huggingface.co/PleIAs/OCRono…
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Children's books with dust covers: why?!?!
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Sad to hear. "Seeing Like a State" really should be required reading for anyone making a living off creating abstractions. Eye-opening, and very readable.
Devastated to learn that the political scientist James C. Scott recently passed away. Such a generous, brilliant, and original thinker, from "Weapons of the Weak" to "Moral Economy of the Peasant" to "Seeing Like a State" to "Against the Grain."
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Just spent an hour debugging a bug in my PNG decoder, to no avail. Used @AnthropicAI's Claude 3.5 Sonnet, described the problem with the corresponding code. It single-shotted the bugfix along with an explantion (had confused a single variable) 😍 I love living in the future.
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