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by hu3 955 days ago
Interesting. What do you use it for?
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geraltofrivia 954 days ago
Currently only for unstructured (OCR) text to structured text conversion.

We're transitioning from a legacy codebase full of regexes and undocumented functions that are understood only by the developer and god. The developers left and I don't believe in god. We tried throwing the unstructed mess to GPT, alongwith a few examples and got surprisingly good results.

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attentive 954 days ago
> undocumented functions that are understood only by the developer and god

oh the irony :)

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geraltofrivia 954 days ago
I don't follow . Ironical how?
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attentive 954 days ago
You replaced it with the system that is even worse than "undocumented functions that are understood only by the developer and god" by design. It's not even deterministic.
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geraltofrivia 954 days ago
Oh yeah. One hundred percent true :D It just happens to be significantly better both in terms of precision and recall than the former solution.
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