Dealing with pesky government debt In law, we’re frequently dealing with ordering and reviewing courtroom audio. In Ontario, the form that we tend to take delivery of those recordings is in PDF files with embedded audio. Of course, like all government technology, the form that it’s delivered in is incredibly antiquated and difficult to access, unless you happen to use exactly the same operating systems and programs as the government....
Yesterday was a strong start, but I suspect keeping up the momentum will be the real challenge. Accomplished the following: learned the basics for LlamaIndex (formerly GPTIndex) and Langchain found and recorded some examples and resources for deploying chatbots built on said structures isolated some evidence-related resources to feed into a prototype, which even (*gasp*) required me to spend some upfront money! created a few working chatbots over said material, one of which ultimately seems promising picked a kitchy product name without overthinking it (which, for me, is huge) - “lawbrarian” –> short, ....
It’s been about two years since I left full time criminal defence practice to ‘build a legal tech company’. I’ve learned a lot along the way, and have built some cool and useful things, but I do not have a revenue-producing company, and those around me are getting impatient. So after a long conversation with my wife, we’ve decided to put a time limit on it. I have 90 days to hunker down and build something that has real commercial potential, and perhaps even could attract funding....