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Re: Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT

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Post by nico »

basch wrote: post #117
EZ-Cheeze wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is the truly mind-blowing thing that's coming. I am currently creating reference images for a game which I expect within 6-12 months I'll be able to feed into a multimodal ChatGPT to create 3D assets out of the 2D pics. We'll be able to conjure up worlds at a whim - so start imagining them already!

Mark gets a lot of flack for metaverse, but can imagine world design where you start in a blank room and describe what you want around you, and it appears. Like the Matrix loading white room. And with voice recognition and eye tracking (and brain scans), how close are we to “you have to use your hands? It’s like a baby’s toy.”

They are calling it “text-to-space”: https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1631023065722245122?s...

Re: Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT

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Post by brutusborn »

samplatt wrote: post #101
v7n wrote: post #81

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Bit of a tangent but I also predict an explosive demand for parametric AI-first design and simulation software. OpenSCAD works right now in the sense that the produced source is valid, but asking for even something well documented e.g. an AR-15 lower receiver does not impress.

My previous boss (we were in the civil construction industry) has been saying for years that we are on the cusp of an industry-shattering breakthrough with generative engineering. We should be able to, by now, input terrain maps, account for local water ways & rainfall, and Autodesk's Brobdingnagian suite of tools should be able to spit out a whole new suburban package, engineered to local country/city engineering st…

I'm about to start work in this space. Some companies are getting close to full building automation, Augmenta seems to me to be closest / have the best approach. [0]

Although the complexity of building standards is a challenge, the speed and quality of various generative algorithms are still major limitations.

[0] https://www.augmenta.ai/

Re: Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT

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Post by ImaCake »

coob wrote: post #125

90 episodes on the History of Europe and 3 on the History of Africa. Blimey

To be fair, the podcast is produced by Europeans. Still, a British history podcast should spend more time recogning with its colonial history, and they have done at least one very very good episode on it.

Re: Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT

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Post by etewiah »

coob wrote: post #125

90 episodes on the History of Europe and 3 on the History of Africa. Blimey

Well spotted!! My degree was in African Studies and I remember one of the first lectures talked about a famous Oxford historian (Hugh Trevor Roper?) who said something like - there is no history in Africa, only the wild gyrations of savage tribes..... Made me very sad.

Re: Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT

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Post by rosetremiere »

petesergeant wrote: post #119
rosetremiere wrote: post #118

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One thing I am slightly wary about after listening to quite a few episodes is Melvyn Braggs seems to be a bit too patriotic oftentimes. It's nothing really obvious, but you hear a lot of "we" when talking about positive aspects of english history, and a lot of focus on all english innovations compared to other countries. Maybe I'm wrong though.

Seems pretty reasonable for a national broadcaster, no? Also British encompasses more than just the English, unless you specifically mean he’s excluding the other Home Nations…

Sorry, I didn't mean English more than British (the distinction being a bit too subtle for me to make). It's "par for the course" I guess for a national broadcaster, but:

* That doesn't mean it's not less than ideal.

* It's something one might want to bear in mind, when listening, since it might introduce some kind of a bias to the whole thing (maybe the other comment about number of episodes about european vs african history is a good argument in that direction)

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Post by shellac »

genmon wrote: post #22

Some unlinked features... If you put the Dewey division in the URL, the directory auto-opens. e.g. here are episodes about prehistoric life (my current jumping-off point) https://genmon.github.io/braggoscope/directory#560 There's a visual map of episodes. After principal component analysis of the episode embedding vectors, these are the most significant two components as the x,y https://genmon.github.io/braggoscope/m…

> https://genmon.github.io/braggoscope/directory#560

Shouldn't https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lh2s3 (Ediacara Biota) be in there?

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