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This is that special blend of Tablet Kid "I don't need to know things I can google them" and Rich Kid "I don't need to do things I can crowdsource them" that makes for that Distinctively VP "I don't know what I'm doing and nobody can tell πππ"
Technically OCR is an application of machine learning.
Not an LLM, though.
A world of difference
regularizing the OCR'd form into a json/html file might be a good application of an LLM though. Perhaps this is what they were asking about.
The secret to success in software engineering:
No need, there's an unmaintained javascript library for that (written by a 12-yr old)
Omg, sign me up! I'm gonna put that script in production for a server used by millions of customers around the world!
Oh no, now there is a security audit and the pdf generated is insecure, the unpaid developer that has not logged in since 2015 has to fix this ASAP
what? invest money to pay for open source software? are you nuts?
Initially, I didn't think these kids were fall guys.
Now I think they're fall guys.
That was my thought. Young kids fresh out of school are really easy to manipulate into delusions of grandeur, especially when said delusions are offered by the richest person in the world. He's gonna leave them out for the wolves.
Either that or Musk himself is truly so incompetent he thinks these kids are true geniuses. Honestly, with how things are going, that's a fiddy-fiddy chance, because Musk is somehow almost as unbelievably stupid as Trump.
You're probably not wrong, what with him awkwardly hopping around onstage at multiple trump rallies.
Why not both?
Imagine getting a job like this and now half the nation knows your name...thats terrifying. being an intern may mean you have no idea of the true scope of what they are asking you to do.
Yeah, seems thatβs the point. Old enough to competently perform what theyβre told, but too young to realize the gravity of the situation and how wrong it is to partake in it.
that's why we have 18 year soldiers ....
Itβs ok, with the experienced gained from being forced to grow up, some will come home and use their savings to buy a dodge ram on a 7 year loan at 18% apr.
They are public employees who are changing things at the core of our government. Why wouldnβt we know their names?
Government employees names arenβt secret (asides from a few exceptions) nor is their pay
We know that his dad is an engineering professor at university of Nebraska too. Really calls into question his credentials. I checked the other day and they had already removed his contact info from their website.
Yes itβs an LLM called pandoc, you can run it locally
You don't need a private nuclear plant to run it? Wow very efficient.
Black magic software.
yes me send me what you want me to parse and i will get back to you in 3-4 business days
be sure to include the metadata too. lol
And processing fee!
the only fee i want is pics
Feet?
anything
Sorry I was making a joke βthe only feet I want is picsβ
its no worrie i forgive you just dont do it again
anything includes feet too thou
Oh yeah the hosted DeepSeek has that
Is this fake?
For context, this is the guy who figured out how to see what's written on some ancient Greek Scrolls without destroying them. It seems slightly far-fetched that he wouldn't know better.
What Greek scrolls?
Ok so they were apparently in Greek but not from Greece. Source: https://news.unl.edu/article-2
Even granting the quality or contribution he had to that effort, there's a huge difference between, "I can make a computer read burnt scrolls," and, "I can make government software with industry-standard protocols and security."
By way of comparison, just because I can write automation software for my company's apps doesn't mean I could just jump into doing Linus Torvalds' job maintaining the Linux kernel.
Sure, but the difference between "I win awards for figruing out how to decipher ancient scrolls that no one has been able to do despite their best efforts" and "I can't research well enough to discover appropriate existing tools for document conversion" is very hard to reconcile.
It's not even a matter of research. The whole question is demented. It's like asking what is the best pizza cutter to write with.
Not particularly, in my book. Like I said, a specific skillset that allowed him to decipher ancient scrolls doesn't equate to practical skills that translate to other things like document conversion.
By way of another analogy, I can build a fine cabinet out of wood, but that doesn't mean I can also build a wooden cuckoo clock.
Just use Deepseek for US government data .... what could go wrong?
Actually this is what they do.
Not at all. The only similarity is that LLMs work with text, and the document formats can also represent text.
Each format (E.g pdf, json, excel) has a defined standard, so all you have to do to change between each other is to map one format's fields to the others. You don't need (and won't get good results) from having an LLM produce the new format from scratch.
What he's asking is the equivalent of asking if there's an LLM made specifically for solving arithmetic problems. Why would you try to solve addition using an LLM?
Yeah, I donβt really get this one. The class clown is the kid who recognizes a function of a tool, correctly at that. Unlike a dipshit lawyer who let it hallucinate bogus case law. Hilarious.
There are programs that exist that explicitly do these sorts of things.
They have been around since long before llm.
This is a lazy and uneducated question.
He demonstrates he has done zero research and goes straight to the buzzword because he knows nothing.
How is that a stupid question?
Perhaps the best way would be through an analogy:
"Are there any thermonuclear bombs made specifically for lighting candles?"
Large Language Models are for natural language processing, not for converting between text document file formats.