Markdown: The Lingua Franca of LLMs and Generative AI

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Interoperability Matters Look, I've been in tech long enough to see generations of formats come and go. Remember when floppy disks were floppy?When they were disks? When they...existed? I've got a 2TB memory stick on a cord around my neck right now (so I don't, uh, lose it). First off, compared to the 360KB 5 1/4" floppy - I'm carrying 5,555,556 of those disks around my neck. Which, at about 50g/disk, is 277.78 metric tons. Second, next time you hold a memory stick in your hand, just pause for a second - if you have a 2TB drive, you are holding in your hand, right at this very moment, over 2 trillion individual structures, objects that were manufactured. Did you every think that you'd be holding 2 trillion objects? I didn't.…

The Capacitor of Accountability

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So, I was working on the series of articles on Retrieval Augmented Generation. As I was doing so, I asked Perplexity's "Deep Research" function to go find me some cool water analogies. I'm not sure what, exactly, I should have said differently, in addition, this was probably the wrong tool for the problem, but it, well. Hm. Let's just take a sec, and let me give you exactly what it came back with. Ahem. "Water Based Analogies for Critical Moments and Truth Revelation" Hydraulic System of Truth and Action The analogy of “where the wave meets the shore” mirrors “rubber meets the road,” >symbolizing the moment abstract plans confront reality. Just as waves shape >coastlines through repeated impact, ideas are tested and refined when exposed to real-world conditions. This reflects the…

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