@LinusEkenstam: I never liked .md Been using html for most context building since last year. My thesis has been, if it trained on the e…
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Linus Ekenstam explains his preference for using HTML instead of Markdown when building context for AI, citing broader training data availability for HTML.
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I never liked .md
Been using html for most context building since last year.
My thesis has been, if it trained on the entire internet, surely there must be more html than .md?
And creating context that’s easier for me to digest was more important than using .md
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