Mastodawn

While having a process is important and sometimes critical to success, writing one solely for an audit or last minute will do little to improve anything. #document #audit #improve #process #success

WordofTheHour 2d ago

#document : any material substance on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol

- French: document

- German: das Dokument, dokumentieren

- Italian: documento

- Portuguese: documento

- Spanish: documento

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Bill 4d ago

My POINT SOW template is in Microsoft Publisher, which is going away (pretty pissed that they are just putting it off, I paid for that, fuckers!) Anyway, I know, I know, but I wrote it like 25 years ago and Publisher was perfect for the format I wanted so there. Some of you have probably received them as a PDF and yes, I built that in Publisher.

What should I change to? Word always sucked for that because they tend to be layout and image rich, and PowerPoint is dumb for what is essentially a document. What hawt new coolness should I be using?

#document #business

Hacker News 5d ago

A $196 fine-tuned 7B model outperforms OpenAI o3 on document extraction

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22906

#HackerNews #A #$196 #fine-tuned #7B #model #outperforms #OpenAI #o3 #on #document #extraction

fine-tuned-model #document-extraction #OpenAI #AI-research #machine-learning

Extract-0: A Specialized Language Model for Document Information Extraction

This paper presents Extract-0, a 7-billion parameter language model specifically optimized for document information extraction that achieves performance exceeding models with parameter counts several orders of magnitude larger. Through a novel combination of synthetic data generation, supervised fine-tuning with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), and reinforcement learning via Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), Extract-0 achieves a mean reward of 0.573 on a benchmark of 1,000 diverse document extraction tasks, outperforming GPT-4.1 (0.457), o3 (0.464), and GPT-4.1-2025 (0.459). The training methodology employs a memory-preserving synthetic data generation pipeline that produces 280,128 training examples from diverse document sources, followed by parameterefficient fine-tuning that modifies only 0.53% of model weights (40.4M out of 7.66B parameters). The reinforcement learning phase introduces a novel semantic similarity-based reward function that handles the inherent ambiguity in information extraction tasks. This research demonstrates that task-specific optimization can yield models that surpass general-purpose systems while requiring substantially fewer computational resource.

arXiv.org

News Beep 6d ago

This Is the Severance Package Starbucks Offered to Laid-Off Staff

Starbucks presented its laid-off baristas with a severance package less than a week after it announced sweeping layoffs…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #businessinsider #company #document #Headlines #hour #location #month #non-retailemployee #pay #severancepackagestarbucks #severancesummary #staff #Starbucks #store #thursday #TopStories #vacationhour
https://www.newsbeep.com/153581/

eicker.news ᳇ tech news Sep 27

#Filevine, a #legalcasemanagement platform, raised $400 million in funding led by Insight Partners, Accel, and Halo Fund. The platform, used by 100,000 legal professionals, offers #AIpowered tools for #document #creation, #validation, and #automation, streamlining #legalworkflows. Filevine will utilise the funding to accelerate go-to-market initiatives. https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/23/filevine-raises-400m-legal-case-management-platform/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Filevine raises $400M for its legal case management platform - SiliconANGLE

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Hacker News Sep 23

The YAML Document from Hell

https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell

#HackerNews #YAML #Document #Hell #Tech #Blog #Coding #Nightmare #Developer #Insights

The yaml document from hell

As a data format, yaml is extremely complicated and it has many footguns. In this post I explain some of those pitfalls by means of an example, and I suggest a few simpler and safer yaml alternatives.