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So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand...

If you, like me, resent every dollar spent on commercial PDF tools, you might want to know how to change the text content of a PDF without having to pay for Adobe Acrobat or another PDF tool. I didn't see an obvious open-source tool that lets you dig into PDF internals, but I did discover a few useful facts about how PDFs are structured that I think may prove useful to others (or myself) in the future. They are recorded here. They are surely not universally applicable --
the PDF standard is truly Byzantine -- but they worked for my case.

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Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts and experience preferred (super rare at this point).

My own notes from a few months back.

Background

• Survey of LLMS
• Self-attention and transformer networks

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from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import json
import subprocess
import time

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://...")
input("Press Enter to continue...")

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am tommasoturchi on github.
• I am tommasoturchi (https://keybase.io/tommasoturchi) on keybase.
• I have a public key whose fingerprint is DCC1 222E ED6B 5D4F 1118 7CE6 E63C F1E5 7B2D B276

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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import {
  Mesh,
  IcosahedronGeometry,
  MeshBasicMaterial
} from 'three';

import {
  MeshComponent,
  DynamicGeometryModule,
  Sphere

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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#!/usr/bin/env python

import csv
import webbrowser
import sys
import urllib

if len(sys.argv)>1:
	with open("kindle.csv", "r") as f: