Really? Been a minute since I have done a presentation, but:
Pandoc PDF to Markdown.
Markdown to paste into your favorite HTML presentation tool.
Nobody is stupid enough to still use Powerpoint right? Right?
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Or the 'modern workflow' version of tell the AI you want to convert the PDF, so it burns a bunch of tokens installing pandoc and converting it for you!
Unless mandated by the corporation (which are the same people forced to use AI for absolutely everything now)
Mandated to use PowerPoint? That would suck. Html markdown presentations are easily shared, require no additional software and make so much sense.
Oh right, "make sense". Nevermind, I get it. The corporate world has no time for that!
Yup, can attest. It sucks. Unless the application is listed on our approved app list I can't even request it. Let alone the months it can take IT to get around to installing it for me.
try a hedgedoc hosted by a random someone. maybe cryptpad.
Any markdown render will do. VSCode, pandoc, heck many web pages, etc.
You just write in markdown.
Edit: unless you meant pandoc, but I don't think it requires an install either.
Ooh, I think I'll start using CoPilot to do basic math and unit conversions in addition to doing them the correct way. Then I can note in my goals & reviews how I have been utilizing the AI resource and keeping tabs on its advancement.
Switching from human labor to AI is like going straight to a unionized workforce, except it's not a collection of reasonable human beings with human needs, it's a well funded machine with only exponential profit in mind
Seriously. A human workforce could never dream of being capable of the same insatiable greed as the gigacorps trying to sell AI.
If my boss would mandate the use of LLMs I would definitely abuse it to rack up the bill.
I already am.
I just debugged a report, found the issue almost right away. A missing number in a GROUP BY clause.
Well if you're measuring what I do through LLM use, the Claude is fixing it instead. Hope that dollar was worth it!
Just a little thought for my professors who overuse AI. Thanks guys for eating the tokens.
Reminds me of companies getting their cloud computing bills.
"We need cloud computing!!!!"
5 minutes later: "Ok a monolith is good enough"
Both of those statements hurt my soul, damn, why do you have to do that to me. On a Friday no less
It's friday and your boss wants to move everything over to a blockchain. He says it will only take an hour tops.
Its top priority because it's part of our new AI strategy. Make sure it's well documented for your weekly report you will have to deliver to the c suite.
Yup. I've had the same thoughts. There are many who still think its insane to have your own equipment. Now there will be those who think its insane to do your own thinking.
Yeah, but you get to exchange cap-ex for op-ex!
Nevermind that running a 48 core server in Azure with 16TB of managed disks is going to run about 21k a year, and you can practically buy a new server for that price.
My company is tossing out their "old" equipment right now, which is why I have a nice server humming away in my basement right now.
a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentations
I haven't been this happy in over a year.
The funny thing is that even with this massive overspending, AI companies aren't profitable. They need these companies to spend 10x the amount per token, and 10x the number of tokens. Probably 10x the number of customers too.
Burning energy, draining water, spending massive cash so they can lose money on a product that doesn't even do its job. How the hell has the bubble not popped yet...
The Stock market is literally just vibes. As long as everyone believes, it will somehow be profitable in the future, the line will keep ging up
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