Using Lift to Turn Research PDFs into Structured JSON with Controlled, Schema-Guided Field-Level Evaluation
In this tutorial, we build a full PDF-to-structured-data workflow around Lift, built for controlled evaluation rather than a one-off demo. We prepare a Colab GPU environment, load Lift in 4-bit NF4, and generate synthetic research reports with deliberate distractors. We then run schema-guided extrac...
AI Reality Check: Why Most AI ROI Calculations Are Fiction
This week, we continue to “keep things real” with an article focused on AI return on investment. Most AI ROI models seem to be built on flawed assumptions. Discover why traditional ROI math fails to capture real AI value, risk, and organizational impact.
The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being republished here with the author’s permission. As companies adopt AI tools, a lot of time is spent on thinking about AI policies from a security, compliance, or even cost-focused angle. But many leaders are neglecting to address how th...
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 vs Sonnet 4.6 vs Opus 4.8: Agentic Coding Benchmarks, API Pricing, and Cost-Performance Tradeoffs Compared
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 narrows the gap to Opus 4.8 on agentic coding, at cheaper Sonnet token pricing.
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#498 – Anthony Kaldellis: Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Rise & Fall of Empires
Anthony Kaldellis is a historian of the Roman Empire and author of “The New Roman Empire”, a comprehensive history of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire). Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep498-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to g...
The practice of tokenmaxxing appears to be dying out, even before I had a chance to write about it. Good riddance. Burning tokens to create the appearance of productivity was fated to last only until the accountants learned about it, and the strictest of all accountants is one’s personal checkbook. ...
Q&A: What is agentic AI today, and what do we want it to be?
Computer scientist Phillip Isola cuts through the hype to explain how AI agents work and what the future might hold for this rapidly advancing technology.
Meta AI Releases Brain2Qwerty v2: A Non-Invasive MEG Brain-to-Text Pipeline Decoding Typed Sentences at 61% Word Accuracy
Meta AI releases Brain2Qwerty v2, a non-invasive MEG brain-to-text pipeline reaching 61% word accuracy with open training code.
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A new report finds "high-intensity AI adopters” saw headcount increase 10.2%. Among those companies, entry-level headcount rose by 12%, countering the rhetoric that AI kills junior jobs.
In a new Keller Gallery exhibition, Alexandros Haridis SM ’17, PhD ’22 traces centuries of ideas about aesthetic judgment and explores how design can make complex computational systems visible.
OCRmyPDF Tutorial: Convert Scanned Documents into Searchable PDF/A Files with Sidecar Text Extraction and Batch Processing
In this tutorial, we build a complete, self-contained OCRmyPDF pipeline in Python. We generate synthetic image-only PDFs so we can test OCR without external files, then convert them into searchable PDFs and PDF/A outputs. We extract sidecar text, validate results, measure word-recall, and compare fi...