No PDFs! The Sunlight Foundation point out that PDFs are a terrible way of implementing “more transparent government” due to their general lack of structure. At the Guardian (and I’m sure at other newspapers) we waste an absurd amount of time manually extracting data from PDF files and turning it in to something more useful. Even CSV is significantly more useful for many types of information.
Recent articles
- Trying out llama.cpp's new vision support - 10th May 2025
- Saying "hi" to Microsoft's Phi-4-reasoning - 6th May 2025
- Feed a video to a vision LLM as a sequence of JPEG frames on the CLI (also LLM 0.25) - 5th May 2025