Martin Laplante

Beyond ChatGPT: The Hidden LLMs in Microsoft Copilot Microsoft Copilot uses more than ChatGPT. Learn how multiple LLMs power semantic indexing, re-ranking, and search results in Microsoft 365.

Series of blog posts about M365 Copilot and search. 3rd installment of 4(?) The other lesser-known LLMs that feed search results to Copilot's ChatGPT
www.pointfire.com/blogs/copilo...

March 31 was World Backup Day. There is no World Restore Day.

The Future of SharePoint Search: How AI and Modern Solutions Are Changing the Game artificial intelligence (AI) and other modern technological advancements are reshaping the SharePoint search tools by improving accuracy and relevance. We explore search components where AI can be app...

New blog post:
How AI can be used to enhance SharePoint search, and all the aspects of search to which it can be applied in the future.
www.pointfire.com/blogs/the-fu...

ASCII 1C-1F are delimiter characters., not used for anything else. You should _still_ plan to escape them if they are in a string, as a reflex.

YouTube video by PointFire SharePoint Query-based AI Search Summaries - Interview with: Elio Struyf & Martin Laplante

Hey #SharePoint peeps! We've just recorded an interview with @eliostruyf.com and @tonobungay.bsky.social, the creators of 🔥SharePoint Search Summaries🔥
We talk about the technology, #PnPSearch, the challenges and the #earlyAccess to the solution
🎥 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdAo...

Probably down while they rename it Answers Copilot.

It's all about the trees you don't have to plant. You have a lot more than my house.

Hord to watch without unconsciously ducking.

Trying to decide the best adjective to describe the latest Office home page. A) confusing B) inconvenient C) misleading?
Rather than "office.com" and Office 365 it's now "m365.cloud.microsoft" with "Copilot" grafted on even if you don't have Copilot. Sure, cram in four brands at the start.

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I haven't done low-level coding of neural networks in decades but last night the old nightmares of correlated eigenvectors and ill-conditioned Hessian matrices woke me up and I barely remember what those are, other than they made backptop converge slowly. Someone else's problem now.

That happens to me whenever I spill a drink on it. I rinse it under the tap. Keyboards from the last 30 years aren't as washable.

That should be an "or". You can't use both features at once.

Why go through the trouble of writing nonsense papers in nonsense journals with authorship that won't stand up to scrutiny? Just reprint a classic like the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paper with my name on it. As long as I'm relying on someone's credulousness, it's more impressive.

Bur you should see the other guy.

Sometimes you want your passwords to mysteriously fail. But also if you have all-caps passwords, Caps Lock makes it easier.