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I am not aware if that exists yet, but the challenge I see with it is rather simple: you get overwhelmed with information really quickly. In other words, you would still need human somewhere in that process to review those scrapes and the quality of that varies widely. For example, even on HN it is not a given a link will be pure gold ( you still want to check if it fits your use case ). That said, as ideas goes, it…
I do exactly this with hoarder. I passively build tagged knowledge bases with the archived pages and then feed it to a RAG setup.
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I do exactly this with hoarder. I passively build tagged knowledge bases with the archived pages and then feed it to a RAG setup.
Cool. Hoarder looks interesting, thanks for the tip. How is it working out for you? Are you using the feature for auto hoarding RSS feeds?
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#75Started off here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZWgEPOVnuM&list=PL6e-Bu0cqf...
Ended up here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5XYLA2HLmo&list=PL6e-Bu0cqf...
And after that, I've had some recent projects that I love to mess around with such as a better license plate detection API than what currently exists for U.K. plates, and once I completed those two courses I had a good enough baseline to work from where I'd encounter a repository and google around if I needed to learn something new.
Short, simple, not painful etc. and I don't have the advanced mathematical background (nor the background within the American mathematical notation) that I'd need to digest the MIT course set, so this learning path has been the best for me. I'm no expert whatsoever, though.
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#77Excellent thread! Love the responses. Is there a way to SAVE THIS THREAD on HN ? 'Cos I'd love that. Thx
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#79They also have a weekly podcast.
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#80First thing you need to do is change your LinkedIn to “AI evangelist” then go to your boss and say I want triple the pay. Then let the chips fall where they may. Oh also rename all your GitHub or personal projects to have AI in the name. You don’t actually have to do much else.
You have summarized the marketing strategy of the majority of recent startups.