the compute rich don't want you to know this, but you can solve reasoning with clever xml tags

Aidan McLau rumor has it Q* is just running a few rounds of <thinking></thinking>, <planning></planning>, <draft></draft>, <review></review>, <answer></answer> in the background

Announcing Surya OCR 2! It uses a new architecture and improves on v1 in every way: - OCR with automatic language detection for 93 languages (no more specifying languages!) - More accurate on old/noisy documents - 20% faster - Basic English handwriting support

Releasing TB-OCR-preview: an end-to-end OCR model handling text, math latex, and markdown formats all at once. It might be the SOTA model for academic paper OCR (under MIT License). Running the model in 4-bit only requires ~2.8GB VRAM to load and exhibits little to none

I may have a new favorite HTR model! Qwen2-VL-7B is incredible! TrOCR does not come close to the quality of the output. Better than that, you don't need to do line detection! There are a few minor issues, but that's what manual correction is for. Best part, there's already an

attentional attention to prompting is almost all you need

three rich men are at the race track, betting on horses. one bets only on horses with a winning track record, one bets on the one with the best jockey, and one bets at random.

The project is a perfect reference for anyone working on agentic report generation use cases 📝 Laurie Voss built a full application template that takes in raw notes and generates full .pptx files 🎨 , with a multimodal reflection loop that can take an existing slide draft and

foundations of xenoalgorithmic ethnography techniques

founder mode brainworms as a self-replicating service

Ever wonder why some businesses thrive while others stagnate? 1. Two gas stations, same intersection, same prices. One differentiates: • Adds flowers on the lawn • Keeps bathroom clean • Offers better coffee 2. The kicker? The other station sees this but doesn't

context attribution is all you need

ditch meditation. just fly FPV drones.

this is heroic, terrifying, and brilliant. imagine injecting the tumour in your own breast with your own preparations of viruses — in full knowledge that most of your immediate peers would censure you for trying

What an ethical minefield indeed, think of all the oncologists it could disemploy

"It's extremely unethical to cure your own cancer," It's crazy that the response to this is anything but "Wow what can we learn from this?" but instead representatives of institutions once again publicly state theyd rather you die then do anything outside of their grasp.

new term: agentic prompting