Top 7 Open Source OCR Models
Best OCR and vision language models you can run locally that transform documents, tables, and diagrams into flawless markdown copies with benchmark-crushing accuracy.
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Friday Feature: Three Cords Academy
Colleen Hroncich When Katie Kilgore took a job at a microschool that prioritizes self-directed learning, she had no idea where it would lead her. Her career had taken her through real estate, owning a women’s clothing store, paralegal work, and, eventually, seven years in private school administration. But the microschool opened her eyes to what education could look like. When she saw her child struggling with anxiety and stress in fourth and fifth grade, she had an epiphany. […]
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Expert Available: How Millionaires Qualify for Food Stamps Through SNAP Loophole
USDA Secretary Rollins promised “structural changes” to SNAP this week amid concerns about widespread fraud in the program. Major reforms to SNAP’s financing model cannot be made without Congress, but USDA can help enforce the program’s eligibility standards by closing a loophole that has allowed millionaires, lottery winners, and households with six-figure assets to receive SNAP benefits through regulation. lead , In a recent blog post titled The SNAP Loophole that Lets Millionaires Receive Food Stamps, the director […]
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EFF’s Holiday Gift Guide
Technology is supercharging the attack on democracy and EFF is fighting back. We’re suing to stop government surveillance. We’re fighting to protect free expression online. And we’re building tools to protect your data privacy. Help support our mission with new gear from EFF’s online store, perfect gifts for the digital rights defender in your life. Take 20% your order today with code BLACKFRI. Thanks for being an EFF supporter! Liquid Core Dice are perfect for tabletop games. The metal […]
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Practical Agentic Coding with Google Jules
If you have an interest in agentic coding, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve heard of
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AMD Eyes Major China Breakthrough as Alibaba Weighs MI308 AI Chip Order
2025 has anything but quiet for the AI and semiconductor industry. While AI giants are making progress in their respective expertise, major semiconductor companies NVIDIA and AMD have been in the spotlight for backing such companies with their best AI chips. Alibaba reportedly looking to buy AMD’s MI308 AI chip Now, AMD has entered the scene after securing export license for the MI308, and agreeing to pay a 15% fee to the U.S. government on approved sales to […]
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Breaking the Hardware Barrier: Software FP8 for Older GPUs
Deep learning workloads are increasingly memory-bound, with GPU cores sitting idle while waiting for data transfers. FP8 precision solves this on newer hardware, but what about the millions of RTX 30 and 20 series GPUs already deployed? Feather demonstrates that software-based FP8 emulation through bitwise packing can achieve near-theoretical 4x bandwidth improvements (3.3x measured), making efficient deep learning accessible without expensive hardware upgrades The post Breaking the Hardware Barrier: Software FP8 for Older GPUs appeared first on Towards […]
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How to Facilitate Effective AI Programming
How to ensure your coding agent has the same context as you The post How to Facilitate Effective AI Programming appeared first on Towards Data Science.
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Open-source AI crushes elite math exam
Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Remember when AI couldn’t handle basic arithmetic? Now, a small open-source model is crushing one of the world’s hardest math exams. After achieving top scores in the Putnam Contest, Nous Research’s Nomos-1 joins a long list of AI-driven math advances this year that show the field may be about to move into a whole new territory of discovery. In today’s AI rundown: Nous […]
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10 Creative Ways to Use Adobe Firefly in Your Design Projects
Adobe Firefly is a generative AI tool that is not only powerful but also very user-friendly for designers, and has rapidly become one of the most important tools in this category. It is part of Adobe’s creative ecosystem, and is easy to use, by entering simple commands to generate images, apply text effects, try out styles, and enhance pictures. Adobe Firefly is one of the best AI design tools made for creative workflows, and it supports all the […]
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