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Was wondering this to. Then I saw the final item in the list of uses: ASCII art...

Can you expand on how you did this?

I did a small test with just a couple of formats and something like 100 records, saw that the accuracy was higher than I wanted, then increased the number of records until the accuracy was down to 50%-ish (e.g. 100 -> 200 -> 500 -> 1000, though I forget the precise numbers.)

There's actually a name for this. It is called incubation.

My experience has been that LLMs help me make sense of new code much faster than before.

When I really need to understand what's happening with code, I generally will write it each step.

LLMs make it much easier for me to do this step and more. I've used LLMs to quickly file PRs for new (to me) code bases.


Folks who know latex would benefit the most from typst, just from the compiling aspect.

I'm convinced no one really knows tex/latex. Everyone googles enough to get by.

Typst on the other hand is completely sensible.

It takes less time to learn typst than to refresh on latex.


Elements of Typographic Style is also a good one if you want to geek out.

I've had decent results from AI for typst.

You can still write in markdown and use pandoc to create typst.

Pandoc works with typst too.

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