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I frequently ask claude to write and review org-mode files. I've found it useful to maintain knowledge decisions both for claude and myself. Less so for other members of my team who wont use emacs or (n)vim. But thought I'd share.

For what its worth, I have had Claude try to name two of my personal projects _Sprout_. One was a dashboard for my Beancount instance, so I thought it cute. But the second time it attempted to name something sprout it was more of a wtf, why Sprout. Fascinating here to see it again.

And here I am just having them author org-files for me and them to refer back too. For fun I even ask for DITA sometimes.

I think semantically this is the perfect choice. Considering the history and intended use of PI.

As an aside, I’m still rather annoyed that web components use hyphens. I really thought colon’s and namespaces made perfect sense there.

The format mainly, I think. Due to loss of a grant and poor market conditions we have shifted our annual meeting with the board to a virtual format. Which gives me less informal time for discussions.

I work at a nonprofit and the board is largely university librarians. I am asking all of them how have the behavior of their patrons changed in the last five years. How has usage of their subscribed resources changed in the age of AI. They don't share much, but their facial expressions and silence share more than they mean them to. Some universities have cut staff, or reclassified them so that they won't receive benefits.

Thanks for that update. I had worked with epub production in the past, but it was probably nearly 15 years ago at this point.

Yes, that is an important point. I guess I was focused mainly on the browser. Which is not the typical way to consume epubs. But you are right that ePubs are essentially packaged XHTML.

I'd argue XHTML did take off and was very widely adopted for the first 5-10 years of the century.

I'm a bit miffed about the dash. I wish it was a colon. Then well established XML could be simply name-spaced in, and then either styled with css and enhanced with JS. I suspect it wouldn't be that difficult to write something for nginx or apahce that simply converted the colon to a hyphen. Oh well, it cannot be 1999 forever.

Wow, they throw some serious spars at these duodecimal people:

> the problem is that Latin uses base ten, so bases larger than ten end up with names that put a bit too much of an emphasis on their relationship with decimal: undecimal, duodecimal, tridecimal, etc. people who like base twelve like to call it "dozenal" instead of "duodecimal" for this exact reason. these names are simply too biased in decimal's favor. ideally, every base should have a unique name that reflects its properties, rather than trivial information about its size.

wait is your email really username@username.net? I registered java.lang.string (at) gmail back when I was learning java 20+ years ago. Haven't really used it in over a decade though.

I threw it at archive.is for them.

https://archive.is/gW1rO

yes, it is frustrating. I also am not quite sure what he is referencing and would be interested in trying out cgrep for myself.

I have seen "AI" in my Dr's office. They have been using it to summarize visits and write after visit notes.

I think this is a case where I simply don't know enough, but couldn't auto-pilot be a lot easier and safer when adding a new axis? A lot fewer things to run into in the air, and if you could just rise or fall a couple dozen feet to avoid an collision seems safer.

A small comment for anyone new to xslt. The author references a wildcard rule in the comments [0]. While that is true, they are calling an identity transformation [1]. Identity transformations are very common in xslt.

[0] https://github.com/Evidlo/xsl-website/blob/0dda1d82ce1eb01b7... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_transform

FWIW, I see your comment. Also late to the thread though. This ruling is being watched at my office. I want to be a bit anonymous, but we've been doing a much more analogue version of some of these things for 75 years. With academics being our primary market. We've only had two legal issues in that time. Both settled out of court. But we walk a fine line.

Understandable. I work in academic publishing, and while the XML is everywhere crowd is graying, retiring, or even dying :( it still remains an excellent option for document markup. Additionally, a lot of government data produced in the US and EU make heavy use of XML technologies. I imagine they could be an interested consumer of Nanonets-OCR. TEI could be a good choice as well tested and developed conversions exist to other popular, less structured, formats.

Have you considered XML. TEI, for example, is very robust and mature for marking up documents.

oh man, thanks!

Interesting project thanks for sharing.

I've casually tried to track down a voice in weather from that time with no luck, but this project scratches the itch somewhat. When I was younger (late 90s-early 00's) I spent a fair amount of my summers fishing with my father and brother on Lake Ontario. We would occasionally turn on the radio and catch a weather report from the coast guard/noaa. There was something about that then out-dated computer generated voice delivering the weather succinctly and to the point.

It was actually a project I used to evaluate coding done by an LLM. It was mediocre and took way too many iterations. But I now have a keyboard shortcut that will fetch KML/XML from noaa, parse out my important details, and read it back to me. The voice isn't quite right. But the morning I spent working on that was a good distraction at the time.

> I'd argue that his pragmatic approach to web design — combining web standards with design flair — was what won out during the 90s and early 2000s. Certainly, of the three web design gurus in 1997, Zeldman’s website back then was by far the most interesting and exotic. --

I really looked to him at that time. I would sneak away during lunch my senior year of high school to read his new Web Standards book. I still regularly check A list Apart, albeit its seldom updated these days. But his approach melded nicely with the other things from XML land I had been reading at the time.

Thanks for sharing.

I like this idea, and it is something I've wanted to try out for awhile. I've been around since I we would set the font color on the body element, and nest tables for complex layouts. I've worked with SGML. I rode the XML is Everywhere wave of the late 90s. I've been dying to take web components for a spin for awhile. Particularly as we have a lot of XML, and a lot of XSLT's hanging around in feeding the content of our web application. I work in publishing content that is consumed by library patrons.

Well, we aren't exactly in the need to know here, but the DOD has been studying Climate Change for decades. At least as far back as the Bush administration of the early 00's if not well before. It is not so much oh look the climate is changing, but more what will people do when they lose access to X. In other words, what can we expect when due to climate issues all of a sudden the fishing industry in your village collapses. Or water is scarce, or a particular crop no longer is sustainable in your region. In most cases, resource scarcity will lead to conflict. Sort of the DOD's bread and butter. It is not exactly all about who will big the biggest and baddest killing machine. And more about when will those killing machines be needed.

Admittedly, that is a bit of a simplification.

I run into the same issues here with banks in the US. It is a real pain in the ass, and makes tracking this sort of information way more time consuming then it needs to be.

My other issue is with stores like Costco that sell both household goods, groceries, clothes, and even misc kids stuff. I like to track each separately. Which means I then need to fetch and analyze the receipts.

fwiw there are several vim and nvim org-mode attempts. Naturally, there is a lot more tooling built out for emacs.

Do you just push to another remote that you host locally, or are you capturing other github items too? Like, for example, Issues and PR reviews/discussions?

some of the code comments are also enjoyable. For example the "Sigh" cracks me up:

  /*----------------------------------------------------------------------

  ; because the code was written using a different IO model (that is, if
  ; there's no data in the file to begin with, we automatically end up in
  ; EOF mode, let's trigger EOF.  Sigh.
  ;-----------------------------------------------------------------------*/

I have been told that my organization developed a system, HABS, that pre-dated OCLC [0]. That OCLC used this system as an inspiration. However, I cannot confirm this. Closest I can do is to find a footnote that Thanks Fred Kilgore, the founder of OCLC [1]. I should reach out to Koh, a friend of a friend, while she is still alive to confirm the story. Nevertheless, we have a collection of punch cards in a dusty room in an attic that was once the HABS system. I think it is a pretty fascinating legacy, and I wish it was better preserved.

[0] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/106939716900400... [1]https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/106939717300800...