At the first conference on microprocessors, someone said "We're not going to have one in every doorknob." A few years later their hotel had electronic locks. Now we've got cpus in friggin' charger cables.
For sure I could write heuristics for parsing each format. I was kind of hoping that ML algorithms had advanced to the state where they could handle messy tables in documents. (By the way if they have, that could be big for the companies with good structuring models. Financial data is unbelievably expensive and a lot of it is publicly available but badly organized, so structuring companies could conceivably eat that those markets as just one application of their tools. Starting with cheap stuff for hobbyists/students who can't afford the commercial solutions).
The complex includes 20 or so funds, so each file includes a "hot spot" with data that I'd like to extract. Within a filing the holdings tables all look the same. The format of the document changes from year to year. Unfortunately the tables aren't really formatted as tables in the html, so I thought rendering to pdf and passing off to an LLM might be the best thing to do. I posted links to a few examples below.
The move to Singapore has been mentioned in several comments but he does address it in the linked piece:
> Some might say: “Hang on, it’s all very well James Dyson telling Britain to support doers and makers, but he took his company’s manufacturing to Malaysia in 2002 and then set up a global headquarters in Singapore in 2019.”
> The answer is worth exploring. In 2002 Dyson was expanding rapidly and urgently needed a new factory, but planning permission was refused. We were able to use empty factories in Singapore and Malaysia.
> However, Dyson now employs about 2,000 people in Britain, which is about twice the number we employed at the time of the move.
More likely than not you have some sort of VPN/go incognito/ad blocker/etc. installed. 99+% of the time, that's the reason for being unable to open a gift link such as those provided by the Wall Street Journal.
Alternatively, it may be because you're located outside the U.S.
Thanks for the information, I have observed this in some of those links before (others worked, I do not know what the diffference is) and it might be the case.
I am indeed outside the U.S.A.
We had several Quickshot II's at home for our Commodore 64; each broke after a while and we had to get a new one.
It looked and felt fantastic and was cheap, but the garbage switch mechanism was a thin metal cross pushed down onto contacts on the board in such a way that it would inevitably snap and render the joystick useless.
I did what I could as a kid without proper materials or tools to repair them but nothing lasted.
I ended up building my own from scratch with steel and wood, reusing the cable of one of them, and could finally play without fear of breaking and leaving me high and dry.
From my experience with a previous product from Retro Games Ltd, The A500, I expect this one to be much better than the original.
> UK retailers are reporting a striking reversal in dairy consumption patterns. Waitrose searches for full-fat milk increased 417%, full-fat yogurt 233%, and block butter 280% in a single month, while skimmed milk and low-fat yogurt are being left on shelves. This shift represents more than a dietary preference change – it signals a fundamental breakdown in public trust regarding nutrition guidance and reveals profound frustration with decades of conflicting advice.
> This analysis examines the scientific evidence, economic factors, processing implications, and psychological dimensions driving this trend, with particular attention to how changing advice may have eroded consumer confidence in nutritional expertise itself.
That comment to which you replied, and the other thread of responses to it, are quotations of the malfunctioning and homicidal HAL computer from the movie “2001: a space oddisey”.
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