A video of Panoramax in action. Starting out with a map view which has small orange lines for where images are available. Then going into the actual 360 degree images and moving around. Above: a video showcasing the panoramax viewer, with a map to see where (most [1] ) images are, and the 360º views.
IP and ethical issues surrounding the use of content in Large Language Models (LLMs) have sparked significant debate, but I’ve mostly stayed out of it as this isn’t my area of expertise, and while there’s much to discuss and many legal opinions to consider, ultimately, the courts will decide what’s legal. However, for those interested in exploring this topic further, I recommend Peter Schoppert’s AI & Copyright substack.
In älteren Bibliotheksgebäuden gibt es sie noch vereinzelt: Räume, in denen einst die Buchbinderei untergebracht war. Manchmal finden sich sogar noch Türen, an denen Buchbinderei zu lesen steht. Aber die Räume hinter diesen Türen stehen fast überall leer oder werden anders genutzt. Heute organisieren diese Abteilungen, wenn es sie noch gibt, vor allem den Versand von Medien an Buchbindereien außerhalb der Bibliothek.
In the last blog post, I had mentioned that I was looking to move away some of my personal code hosting away from GitHub (GH), to avoid being locked in into yet another tech giant. Instead, I wanted to move to a proper free alternative. On Mastodon, lots of folks recommended checking out Codeberg as a potential alternative that is based on forgejo and provides static page hosting.
I recently watched a librarian give a talk about their experiments teaching prompt engineering. The librarian drawing from the academic literature on the subject (there are lots!), tried to leverage "prompt engineering principles" from one such paper to craft a prompt and used it in a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system, more specifically, Statista's brand new "research AI" feature.
Or: Why 2024 is my personal year of Linux on the desktop According to Doctorow, enshittification might be coming for absolutely everything . I’ve more and more felt this was for my own digital devices and means of digital production: Be that Apple’s just increasing love for walled gardens - especially since having the opaque app review processes (c.f. cpython’s --with-app-store-compliance), Microsoft’s (successful?)
I have been writing about what I call citation based literature mapping tools for over 5 years now, starting from Citation Gecko in 2018.
Image: Apple As is custom, Apple gave a sneak peek into the new features that will come with the new versions of their operating systems later this year at the WWDC.
Can Semantic Search be more interpretable? COLBERT, SPLADE might be the answer but is it enough?
Warning : I am not a information retrieval researcher, so take my blog post with a pinch of salt In my last blog post, I described a simplified description of a framework for infomation retrieval from the paper -