Farmers associated with as many as 16 farmer outfits from the States Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand would be participating

Reduced import duty on produce and relaxed norms will affect farmers and traders here, they say

Farmers are afraid to go to the fields because of sporadic firing by armed miscreants from higher grounds 

Minister Carlos Fávaro offers transfer of technology to India to boost cooperative production

Economic think tank GTRI (Global Trade Research Initiative) in its report said that India needs to cut its reliance on imported vegetable oils to promote better health outcomes and also reduce the import bill

Govt prepared to extend necessary support to the company in expanding its oil palm and dairy businesses 

The revival of agricultural growth from its long-term slump requires imaginative policy shifts and decisive fiscal measures, but the Budget provides no indications of such a plan or intent

A poor harvest could force the Centre to import wheat, palm oil, sunflower oil and soybean oil

Shivraj Singh Chouhan has also been allocated the Rural Development Ministry in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new Cabinet

A release said the award signifies the station’s unwavering commitment to maintain the highest standards in quality seed production and has emerged as a front runner setting an example for excellence in the field of seed production

Government allocates ₹1.52 lakh crore for agriculture and allied sectors in the Union Budget 2024-25; Finance Minister announces that the Centre will work with States to promote digital public infrastructure for agriculture

Power rests in the hands of a corrupt military and political oligarchy that denies people the right to self-determination, reports Hamza Hamouchene.

A group of Indian Ocean islanders, forcibly removed from their homes 50+ years ago and deported to England, are still fighting for recognition and basic rights. By Alexi Demetriadi.

As the functionality and scope of Web sites and applications has grown over the years, so has the prevalence of Help pages. Nearly every feature has an explanatory article outlining how to use it and why. But most Help pages are walls of text making them hard to act on. So a few years ago, we tried something different.

First let's look at the status quo. This Help page from Amazon is both pretty typical and by those standards, pretty good. It's specific to one topic, brief, outlines steps clearly, and includes links to help people accomplish their intended task. Companies iterated to these kinds of Help pages because they mostly work and because they're less work.

Keeping Help text up to date and accurate is less labor-intensive than updating images or videos with the same information. But as the old saying goes, a picture is worth a lot of words and there's a reason many people turn to video tutorials to learn how to do things instead of reading about how to do them.

When building Polar several years ago, we wanted a more approachable and fun way of helping people learn how to use our product. And while you might say "the best Help pages are no Help pages -just make your app easy to use" not all Help pages are smearing over usability issues. Some introduce higher level concepts, others outline capabilities, and some serve as marketing for specific features.

So with those goals in mind, we iterated to a simple formula. Each concept or feature gets a Help page that has a title alongside 1-2 sentences and as many sections consisting of a title, 1-2 sentences, plus a graphic as needed.

This approach meant people primarily relied on images (or their alt tags if visually impaired) to figure out how to get things done. So we iterated a fair amount on the images to find the right balance of detail and abstraction. Make the UI too realistic and it becomes hard to focus on the relevant elements. Realistic UI images also need updating anytime the actual product UI changes. Conversely, make the image too simplistic and it doesn't provide enough detail for people to actually learn how to do things.

Of course, not all Help topics are well suited to an image but the process of trying to create one often triggers ideas on how to simplify the actual UI or concepts within a product. So it's worth the iteration.

But is a visual approach to Help pages able to scale? Assuming it works, can companies invest the time and effort needed to generate all these images and keep them up to date? Perhaps in a time of image generation AI models, it's increasingly possible through automated or supervised pipelines. Time will tell!

Since launching the Ask Luke feature on this site last year, we've added the ability for the system to respond to questions about product design by citing articles, videos, audio, and PDFs. Now we're introducing the ability to cite the thousands of images I've created over the years and reference them directly in answers.

Significant improvements in AI vision models have given us the ability to quickly and easily describe visual content. I recently outlined how we used this capability to index the content of PDF pages in more depth making individual PDF pages a much better source of content in the Ask Luke corpus.

We applied the same process and pipeline to the thousands of images I've created for articles and presentations over the years. Essentially, each image on my Website gets parsed by a vision model and we add the resulting text-based description to the set of content we can use to answer people's design questions. Here's an example of the kinds of descriptions we're creating. As you can see, the descriptions can get pretty detailed when needed.

If someone asks a question where an image is a key part of the answer, our replies not only return streaming text and citations but inline images as well. In this question asking about Amazon's design changes over the years, multiple images are included directly in the response.

Not only are images displayed where relevant, the answer refers to them and often refers to the contents of the image. In the same Amazon navigation example, the answer refers to the green and white color scheme of the image in addition to its contents.

Now that we've got citations and images steaming inline in Ask Luke responses, perhaps adding inline videos and audio files queued to relevant timestamps might be next? We're already integrating those in the conversational UI so why not... AI is a hell of a drug.

Further Reading

Additional articles about what I've tried and learned by rethinking the design and development of my Website using large-scale AI models.

• New Ways into Web Content: rethinking how to design software with AI
• Integrated Audio Experiences & Memory: enabling specific content experiences
• Expanding Conversational User Interfaces: extending chat user interfaces
• Integrated Video Experiences: adding video experiences to conversational UI
• Integrated PDF Experiences: unique considerations when adding PDF experiences
• Dynamic Preview Cards: improving how generated answers are shared
• Text Generation Differences: testing the impact of AI new models
• PDF Parsing with Vision Models: using AI vision models to extract PDF contents
• Streaming Citations: citing relevant articles, videos, PDFs, etc. in real-time
• Streaming Inline Images: indexing & displaying relevant images in answers

Acknowledgments

Big thanks to Sidharth Lakshmanan and Sam Breed for the development help.

Conference: 3 Sep 2018 - 7 Sep 2018, Mainz, Germany. Organized by wikonect GmbH.

In the elections to the Rajya Sabha from Tamil Nadu, the Congress had an opportunity to rip open the State politics. But as in 1996, it blinked giving little hope to those looking for a non-Dravidian party rule in the State!

The movers-and-shakers at the Cartier Concours d’Elegance

Visiting chef Agostino D’ Angelo takes his audience through the flavours of true Sicilian food

Camera phones that will help you take your Instagram game up a notch this festival season

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Kannada actor Kishore hopes the response to ‘Kantara’ will encourage Kannada filmmakers to explore new content in different ways

In its complaint lodged before the Yeshwantpur police, MRT Music had alleged that popular songs and audio clips of the film were illegally used to promote Mr. Gandhi as hero and a mass leader

As the Telugu film ‘Balagam’ wins hearts and international awards, director Venu Yeldandi talks about how he wanted the film to reflect native culture and relationships in Sircilla, Telangana

The screenings at two other multiplexes in Kochi were cancelled

The trial against actor Saif Ali Khan is likely to begin from June 15 as the court issued summons to witnesses in the case

Actor Nandamuri Balakrishna’s 108th film directed by Anil Ravipudi is titled ‘Bhagavanth Kesari’, also stars Kajal Aggarwal, Sree Leela and Arjun Rampal

Venkatesh Maha, director of ‘Care of Kancharapalem’ and ‘Uma Maheswara Ugra Roopasya’, recalls his formative years and why he stands firm to make the films he believes in

Actors Varun Tej and Lavanya Tripathi were engaged at a private ceremony in Hyderabad, attended by their family members including Chiranjeevi, Ram Charan and Allu Arjun

The teaser of actor Nandamuri Balakrishna’s 108th film ‘Bhagavanth Kesari’, directed by Anil Ravipudi, has the actor mouthing fan-pleasing dialogues in Hindi and Telangana-laced Telugu

Actor Ravi Teja’s new Telugu film to be directed by Karthik Gattamneni is titled ‘Eagle’, targets the Sankranti 2024 festive season for theatrical release

Discussing his new Telugu movie ‘Circle’, director Neelakanta says his style of filmmaking has changed to connect with the present generation  

Director Ram Abbaraju’s ‘Samajavaragamana’ offers plenty of laughs that override the film’s shortcomings. Sree Vishnu and Naresh are a riot

The feature will work for Gmail users on the web, on Android, and on iOS

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