Chris

@mdancho84 If only it did that for OneNote 😭

Microsoft is making moves again. A quiet little Python tool just shot to the top of GitHub’s trending charts. 100,000+ stars. It’s called MarkItDown. And it does something deceptively simple: It turns almost any file into clean Markdown. PDFs. Word docs. PowerPoints. Excel files. Images. Drop a file in. Get structured Markdown out. Sounds small. It’s not. Because one of the biggest bottlenecks in AI workflows — especially RAG systems — is getting messy, real-world documents into a format models can actually use. And real-world documents are brutal. PDFs are chaotic. Word docs are full of hidden formatting junk. PowerPoints are messy and often image-heavy. Spreadsheets can be a nightmare to parse cleanly. That’s where this gets interesting. MarkItDown strips away the friction and gives you something LLM pipelines can actually work with. In other words: less preprocessing, less pain, faster AI implementation. Even better, this isn’t some random side project. It’s an official Microsoft open-source tool. Free. Commercially usable. Practical. I tested it on a 200-page PDF. A few seconds later, I had Markdown that was shockingly clean. And that’s what big tech does at its best: They take an annoying, universal problem that everyone has been duct-taping together… and turn it into a simple standard. That’s why this matters. It’s not just a file conversion tool. It’s infrastructure for the next wave of AI applications. Get it here: github.com/microsoft/mark… 🚨 Want to learn how to build + ship AI and Data Science projects (that businesses actually want)? On April 29th, I am hosting a free workshop to help you get started with AI + DS projects in Python. Register here (500 seats): learn.business-science.io/registration-a…

POV: how x, y and z felt after leaving the alphabet and joining mathematics

Great article on AI - aventine.org/openAI-anthrop…

@RodmanAi Gemini

Google Gemini is the smartest AI right now. But 90% of people prompt it like ChatGPT. That's why I made the Gemini Mastery Guide: → How Gemini thinks differently → Prompts built for Gemini → 2000+ AI Prompts Comment "Gemini" and I'll DM it free.

@TheMoviescenes @grok what movie is this

Such a funny and interesting scene 🎥 Slip

@Ressy_B Idk where else to buy it from.

@FrankMagana15 I just need you to do one thing for me and do something with the song "Lose You" by Drake on the More Life album/playlist

Top 5 Drake, “yeah” in rotation this week 🦉

@plottttwisttttt That's the goat @mhuncho

I started watching Solo Leveling why didn't y'all tell me?

@aceu 👀

apex legends

when they save your excel model as a template

Nokia is a fucking SMASH. 💰💰💰

@Punk_2070 ♥️♥️♥️

had a pretty special day yesterday

@BlackYellow That's a cold cover still

Some BVB 4 U

@earthcurated I know the photographer who took that photo. At least credit them lol @JoshPerrettArt

Switzerland 🇨🇭

.@Drake's "NOKIA" has reached #1 on US iTunes.

In her defense she is 2 yrs old

I got this for my daughter for Valentine's Day. She is said no thank you and asked for a banana instead 😂

@netcapgirl LOL

everyone watching is upset about that performance

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