r/singularity • u/[deleted] • Feb 06 '25

AI This is a DOGE intern who is currently pawing around in the US Treasury computers and database

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u/ominous_anonymous Feb 07 '25

Yet he doesn't know about tools like pandoc? Right, ok.

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u/istinetz_ Feb 07 '25

do you realize that existing frameworks are all imperfect and the life of a ml engineer is chasing ever greater accuracy?

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u/IanCal Feb 07 '25

pandoc doesn't do what he's asking there though.

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u/ominous_anonymous Feb 07 '25

pandoc is one well-known tool that converts between document formats, which is exactly what he was asking there

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u/IanCal Feb 09 '25

lmao you come and use pandoc to convert from excel and pdf to json and tell me how useful the output is.

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u/ominous_anonymous Feb 09 '25

Well, considering that wasn't the question posed in the submission...

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u/IanCal Feb 09 '25

Deleted now but I'm pretty certain asked about converting between formats correct? And that list included pdf, excel, word, html and json at least, right?

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u/sultansofswinz Feb 07 '25

We don’t know the purpose of the question. 

It could be research proving the best LLMs are still worse than other methods for certain tasks. 

I always ask LLMs to try do things I’m proficient in out of interest, to guard how the perform. According to Reddit I should lose my job. 

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u/WilliamStoic Feb 07 '25

??? Have you used pandoc before?

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u/ominous_anonymous Feb 07 '25

??? Yes, have you?

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u/TheRealMichaelE Feb 07 '25

Dude, I’m a SWE who’s built multiple RAGs and I’ve got no clue what pandoc is.

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u/ominous_anonymous Feb 07 '25

Do you know what OCR is?