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Second this.

RAG is so yesterday.

Upload entire PDF directly[1] to API, don't convert PDF to markdown, don't vectorise.. Put that in API cache [2] and keep asking questions.

Chunking and vector search gives mediocre results [3]. Same with full-time search. Difficult to calibrate when structure of PDF is volatile.

[1] - https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/pdf-sup...

[2] - https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-...

[3] - This works but for well formated PDFs where you chunk intelligently and extract reasonable metadata.


I am trying to build this independent of APIs provided by specific providers (such as cache), so this isn't an option.

> No country is corruption free but the difference between Europe and Mexico is shocking.

> In Europe most people would never think of bribing a police man

I would say that lack of petty corruption doesn't exclude big scale corruption which is very much alive in Europe.

Backdealing, lobbying, money laundering. I don't rememeber Mexican banks laundering hundreds of bilions etc. Mexican car manufactures cheating for years on car emissions.

These things are reserved for European countries from top of most transparent countries list (Hello Denmark, Hello Germany).. We just keep forgetting. And we are conditioned by propaganda to look down on other cultures.

Stoping petty officers from accepting bribes is just European establishment's way of "Don't steal - your goverment hates competition".


> Backdealing, lobbying, money laundering. I don't rememeber Mexican banks laundering hundreds of bilions etc. Mexican car manufactures cheating for years on car emissions.

EU politicians caught backdealing are being prosecuted. Bank money laundering wasn't done by the government's banks. Car emissions cheating also wasn't the government.

Bribing police is government corruption.


Zed Editor.

Open Terminal in Zed and run Aider...

https://aider.chat/ https://zed.dev/

You can also configure Supermaven or Copilot for Zed and whatever LLM model you prefer for Zed's Assistant and Inline Assistant. But Aider makes these tools a bit irrelevant.


Hillary Clinton cattle futures controversy - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_cattle_futures...

ETF Named After Nancy Pelosi, Tracking Congressional Democrats' Stock Trades, Surpasses S&P 500 with Tech Triumph | Markets Insider https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/etf/etf-named-after...


Sssh, we don't speak of the chicken man's chicken monies.


> The entire point of Go is to be the Java of Google, the language you don't need several weeks of training for to be productive in and start reading and writing code.

The point of Golang is Google’s answer to rapidly declining quality of its search results. Golang is the first and only language where faced with problems I would rather read source code of library then frantically search for solutions in Google…


> “There used to be certain aspects in life that you could just rely on, and the fact that official statistics are published on time was one of them — not any more,” said Jörg Krämer, chief economist of Commerzbank, adding that the suspended data was also closely watched by monetary policymakers and investors.

> But a series of glitches, data issues and IT delays meant Destatis has been unable to publish retail sales and other services data for four months.

> The Wiesbaden-based authority, which was established in 1948, said the outages had been caused by IT issues and a complex methodological change in EU business statistics in a bid to boost accuracy.


My friend and I we are fixing old bikes for fun. And often the only way to figure out how to do certain things is watching YouTube videos about fixing bikes. And bikes are rather simple devices.

I guess NASA had lost all YouTube videos about how to assemble Moon rocket.


800 billion euro per year and that on top of other needs like green initiatives. How are they going to finance such investments? EU banks don’t have capital and foreign borrowers will ask steep rates which will impact European borrowing costs and extinguish economic activity even more.

The simple truth is Europe cannot afford such programs.


> How are they going to finance such investments?

Well, half joking here.. there probably will be a new green initiative to decarbonise IT. New tax money will pay for a new IT hub in Germany or France, where companies will stay for as long as EU pays their rent and gives tax incentives. After that, they will move out.


Numbers without scale are difficult to interpret: 800 billion are twice the German yearly budget or equal the American military budget.

So a lot, but far from insane.


"First, integrating Europe's capital markets to better channel high household savings towards productive investments in the EU will be essential. Second, the more willing the EU is to reform itself to generate an increase in productivity, the easier it will be for the public sector to support the investment drive."

Ahuh.. so they are going to force "investment" from european households.. Read into that what you will..

Also talking about decarbonisation and militarization in the same breath.. just utter opposite ends of the spectrum.

The EU is schizophrenic at the best of times.. but this is absurdum ad nauseum


Read the report? High level: removing policy & procurement fragmentation, boosting standardisation, completing the single market, creating a capital markets union, pruning back regulation and introducing euro bonds


Agile isn't killing inovation. Corporations are. Agile is just a tool to do so.

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