falconsg

Software development, consulting, data engineering, AI

[falconsg @falconsoftware]

I'm the owner of a software group. Using AI for data extraction, business insights, and to create software. Personal interest In CRE, Financial Investments, Health.

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@retabdev @UnstructuredIO Thank you, I will take some time to get familiar with this

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I'm thinking about how when I extract structured data from a PDF I can understand the output and what the data lineage was. I process PDFs in one of two ways either using @UnstructuredIO or using an LLM depending on the complexity.

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This would be used as part of evals as well as data lineage or provenance. What are some other things I should consider?

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I'm thinking of using a model like this so that I know or I can trace back and actually I want the program itself to be able to trace back when something went awry.
"location": {
"value": "Nevada, USA",
"source": "llm",
"origin_pdf_text": "Location of operation: Nevada, USA",
"extractor_confidence": 0.92,
"fallback_used": true,
"extraction_method": "prompt_v3",
"pdf_page": 4
}

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I had fallen off the saddle with task-master. I think the reason is that it would take care of a lot. Sometimes tasks would be marked done, but I know I have to go back and do testing for them. I'm trying to get back to it and build in testing and adhere to that, otherwise there's too many directions to be pulled in. https://t.co/jUWrjt0vxB

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@homeservguy Lots of hard-earned wisdom in that statement

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I am thinking about business, particularly small business as an API, which can be exposed through MCP servers. For example, you tell your AI that you want to schedule a mobile detailing for your car. Payment information could be done through crypto or through local tools or another API which you authorize. Cloudflare gave an example with a pizza-ordering MCP Server.

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@CoFoundersNik Congratulations!

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but definitely a good learning experience

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I wanted to see what would happen if I gave all my linter errors to cursor using Taskmaster

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I think this was a bit aggressive on my part and I should have watched it more closely. I was worried as it was churning through both on how much it would cost which turned out to be just a few dollars so far and then whether it would end up breaking something which it does look like it did.

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@IndustrialTexas Great question...and I think there are some great answers in here. As far as practical skills, maybe woodworking, farming, cooking. At least I don't think robots will develop a sense of taste very soon.

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I think this problem is common across many business spheres. There's a mental struggle of what is the "best use of my time right now". One thing that's worked for me is to have some structured calendar (with some flexible time) and then evolve the calendar. You will likely not get perfect structure on your first try but you'll get something that allows to you give feedback to yourself and you'll tweak it and then eventually it'll evolve into something that works for you

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Trying out some PDF extractions with different methodologies....

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@laoddev as someone else said :)