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November 5th, 2023 | Exclusive access for LLM companies to largest Chinese nonfiction book collection

Nov 6, 2023
This podcast recap covers a variety of interesting topics including exclusive access to a large Chinese nonfiction book collection, the ineffectiveness of email obfuscation against ChatGPT, the revolutionary impact of the Intel 80386 processor, Montreal's cost-efficient rapid transit system, psychedelics research and time perception, changes to Amazon's practices, renewable energy potential in Britain, and a lawsuit alleging collusion among big landlords to raise rents.
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  • Anna's archive offers exclusive early access to a collection of 7.5 million Chinese non-fiction books in exchange for OCR and text extraction codes.
  • Debate on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of email obfuscation against chat GPT and the steps for fine-tuning tasks using the OpenAI API.

Deep dives

Collaboration opportunity for Anna's archive's massive collection

Anna's archive, a digital storehouse, has acquired a collection of 7.5 million Chinese non-fiction books, and is seeking collaboration with an institution to perform OCR and text extraction. The collaboration offers one year of exclusive early access to the collection in return for OCR and text extraction codes.

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