Re: [CODE4LIB] genrative ai; fine-tuning and rag

2024-02-26 Thread Alex Dunn
I think it's important to ask first what your aims are with a LLM. Personally I have never seen a valid use-case for ChatGPT or any of its varieties in libraries. These models are, ultimately, little more than glorified text compressors[1] that perform pattern-matching and which do not, and cannot

Re: [CODE4LIB] Local tool for (manual) video captioning?

2022-07-05 Thread Alex Dunn
Subtitle Edit has worked well for me in the past: http://www.nikse.dk/subtitleedit On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 9:21 AM Niqui O'Neill < 0099730b23ad-dmarc-requ...@lists.clir.org> wrote: > This might work for you: https://dnoneill.github.io/captioneditor/. > > Niqui > > On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 10:37

Re: [CODE4LIB] .gif - determining it's time length

2022-05-31 Thread Alex Dunn
If you're comfortable with command-line tools, ffmpeg includes a tool called ffprobe that will extract metadata from a GIF, including length. ffmpeg itself can also convert a GIF to another video format: `ffmpeg -i input.gif output.mp4` On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 8:13 AM charles meyer wrote: > Than

Re: [CODE4LIB] homebrew and Bulk Extractor scanner question

2019-08-27 Thread Alex Dunn
Hi Jason, Here's the primary documentation for Homebrew formulae: https://docs.brew.sh/Formula-Cookbook and here's an example of an existing C++ library formula: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/libodfgen.rb There is a central repository for Homebrew formulae, but the