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Re: Show HN: Semantic clusters and embeddings for 500k Hacker News comments

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Post by vintagedave » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 11:44 AM UTC

LordGrey wrote: post #43

I'm not sure about others here, but I occasionally spend time typing out a long reply to someone and then simply deleting the reply without posting. Most of the time I conclude -- a little too late -- that the effort was not worth it. How nice it would be to have an LLM trained on all of my previous writings and simply be able to click a button to indicate "reply to this person, please." I know I don't have enough tr…

I sometimes do the same thing. Same with emails. I’m just not sure there’s enough training data to pick up my tone or to reply making a similar assessment to that which I would make.

Would be a wonderfully fun app to try though.

Would it be a good thing? Do you think there are relies you should have posted that you did not?

Re: Show HN: Semantic clusters and embeddings for 500k Hacker News comments

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Post by LordGrey » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 12:51 PM UTC

vintagedave wrote: post #51

LordGrey wrote: post #43

I'm not sure about others here, but I occasionally spend time typing out a long reply to someone and then simply deleting the reply without posting. Most of the time I conclude -- a little too late -- that the effort was not worth it. How nice it would be to have an LLM trained on all of my previous writings and simply be able to click a button to indicate "reply to this person, please." I know I don't have enough tr…

I sometimes do the same thing. Same with emails. I’m just not sure there’s enough training data to pick up my tone or to reply making a similar assessment to that which I would make. Would be a wonderfully fun app to try though. Would it be a good thing? Do you think there are relies you should have posted that you did not?

> Do you think there are relies you should have posted that you did not?

I think there are probably times where a reply I deleted would have added value to the conversation. Not always, but perhaps enough.

> Would it be a good thing?

That is the issue. More != better, for all cases, as it says nothing about quality.

There is not enough training data for an LLM to emulate me, but what about prodigious writers? Could we realistically emulate Paul Graham or Joel Spolsky?

Re: Show HN: Semantic clusters and embeddings for 500k Hacker News comments

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Post by sureglymop » Fri, Jun 14, 2024, 9:57 AM UTC

vintagedave wrote: post #51

LordGrey wrote: post #43

I'm not sure about others here, but I occasionally spend time typing out a long reply to someone and then simply deleting the reply without posting. Most of the time I conclude -- a little too late -- that the effort was not worth it. How nice it would be to have an LLM trained on all of my previous writings and simply be able to click a button to indicate "reply to this person, please." I know I don't have enough tr…

I sometimes do the same thing. Same with emails. I’m just not sure there’s enough training data to pick up my tone or to reply making a similar assessment to that which I would make. Would be a wonderfully fun app to try though. Would it be a good thing? Do you think there are relies you should have posted that you did not?

Recently (before the Microsoft recall announcement) I created a keylogger that logs all keystrokes, mouse position as well as window system specific things such as focused window etc.

My idea was to be able to eventually use that data to train some AI with that data and to e.g. pick up on my different writing styles in a document editor, terminal etc.

Re: Show HN: Semantic clusters and embeddings for 500k Hacker News comments

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Post by Jerrrry » Fri, Jun 14, 2024, 2:13 PM UTC

GeoAtreides wrote: post #36

shadowgovt wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Correct. I'm a little surprised people don't know the ownership story on HN. Didn't it raise questions when they realized they can't delete their posts without mother-may-I'ing the mods? HN is pretty up-front that when you post here you are providing them content for free to more-or-less consume as they please.

I disagree on the up-front... front. Neither of the things you mentioned are made clear when signing up for an account.

The onus is on you.