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I agree and even though I am pro immigration, I do think the H1B program has been exploited by the employers to the hilt

How does this proposal affect the employers you mention?

this doesn't affect the employers. with people like you, we need h1b

did you build your own diffusion model?


I have a few custom ones (a post-trained flux 2 checkpoint for web design and a image->metalness map generator that the build step can call for more advanced lighting situations), but gpt-image-2 is better than my own for design, so it's weighted much more heavily in outputs my tool generates. I think gpt-image-2 currently generates 99%+ of the design outputs on diffui


> Scanning in documents and using OCR to create an order,

I remember this being done more than 10 years ago.

The other uses cases you describe also were being done. Of course with AI maybe it’s become easier and cheaper?


Yes but it generally expected documents to be in a certain layout and the user had to fill in a lot of the gaps. It's more able to identify elements on an incoming PO, match a supplier invoice, or create a receipt based on a packing list with inference.

EDIT: The other activities, yes I think it made it cheaper and easier. They both required human intervention to make an accurate forecast or execution plan. Forecasting requires humans to do things like apply smoothing factors, identify abormal demand over huge datasets, or identify seasonal demand cycles, etc. Constraint scheduling requires a human to intervene in dispatching and resource allocation as well. AI can do 95% of the work with a proposal, or even control the process. Supposedly much better than historical algorithms. I haven't implemented this part of it, but I've seen it done.

The documentation part is much more robust. You can ask it complex questions, like "How do I setup a phantom blow-through part in a MS level 1 BoM?" and it walks you through the entire thing. With the sales suggestions, it can identify things like "The customer is buying spaghetti and pancetta" AI: "They are probably making carbonara, how about some garlic bread?"


Take your favorite OCR software.

Then take a photo of a document and throw it into ChatGPT, or Gemini, along with the word "Transcribe".

ChatGPT wins, by a landslide. BUT AI's advantage doesn't stop there.

"Take this picture of some idiot filling in form 49, I've also attached the PDF, fill in the PDF fields, provide a database record according to the schema attached and flag if there are any obvious problems with the entries".

That works too. "Produce a latex document of this kid's math homework and flag any problems" - works. "Produce a MS word document of this letter" - works. "Read this bill and produce a JSON version following the schema from this example" ... and so on and so forth.

More than that, it is starting to work pretty well with Gemma 31B local model (will still do 30 document analyses on cpu only, at Q4 on a DDR4 or higher machine. Yes it's mostly memory speed that matters) at this point. I mean, that's GPT 5.0 or so quality (95% correct with the occasional problem), but hey, Qwen 3.8 27B may be coming out next week ...


30 document analysis in parallel


Actually 30 is sequential on an hosted Xeon server. No GPU, about 2 minutes for a ~2000 token answer. I should try parallel since you're quite right, I should be able to do faster that way.


Most Microsoft web apps are sluggish and horribly designed.

I was using Entra and Azure the other day and boy are they slow and clunky.


Any resources to learn how to design a circuit board?


Youtube tutorials are pretty great to get started


How much data do you need to fine tune a model?


Depends what you change. Format or style, few hundred rows is often enough. A task the model already half knows, few thousand.

New facts is where people waste a week. The model comes back wrong in a new way. Use RAG for facts.


> A graph that can update, not just append.

I see AI using lot of these style of messages for Copywriting and/or headlines.

Does this style have a name?


Yup, it's 'slop'


> knowledge tasks

Like what?


> tokenization discord

How can I join this? Sounds interesting


Send me an email (my address is in my profile)


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I would think they are not but Alex Karp CEO of Palantir seems to imply that they are:

https://youtu.be/0A3sGymV6kY?si=ti7uSZtYqJ3vKpGM

I found it a little shocking TBH


Alex Karp says a lot of things


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