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Cake day: September 20th, 2023

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  • I like the approach this dev is taking with his PDF search app:

    You can search in natural language, but it doesn’t try to give you an answer. It simply highlights what’s already there, even when you didn’t know the exact phrasing used in the source document.

    Software can try to give me a summary with citations, but I’m gonna have to click the citations. So forget the summary, just show what would be cited! Great tech, all local in this case - hard to be “anti-AI” (common sentiment) when AI can just mean “search real good no matter which words you use.”













  • There’s gotta be a buncha tools that Clippy into the terminal to say “did you mean ____?” right? Including some new ones where they trained/fine-tuned a language model on man pages?

    Interesting it’s not the most popular thing to use a GUI and use shortcuts for everything you want to do while still having the option to click through a menu or wizard for whatever you haven’t memorized. I suppose the power and speed of the command line are difficult to match if you introduce anything else, and if you spend time using a user interface that’s time you can’t spend honing your command line skills.