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

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Nice project OP. I also love In Our Time. Some favourite episodes off the top of my head: * Wilfred Owen - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001df48 * The Evolution of Crocodiles - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000zmhf * The May Forth Movement - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001282c * The Valladolid Debate - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fgmw * Gerard Manley Hopkins - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m…

Also going to chime in to recommend the Gin Craze episode https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b084zk6z

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

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post #49

Nice project OP. I also love In Our Time. Some favourite episodes off the top of my head: * Wilfred Owen - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001df48 * The Evolution of Crocodiles - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000zmhf * The May Forth Movement - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001282c * The Valladolid Debate - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fgmw * Gerard Manley Hopkins - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m…

I really enjoyed the recent Superconductivity episode. Especially hearing Melvyn say 'Good god' half way through.

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

#74
post #43

In Our Time has been a life-long companion, one of things that makes me proud of the BBC

Have you read the New Yorker articles about it? On _In Our Time_ -> https://www.newyorker.com/culture/podcast-dept/escape-the-ne... Profile of Melvyn Bragg -> https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/t... Both well worth your time.

That NewYorker summarises it nicely. I can’t stand the over-produced stuff on NPR for example. In Our Time has no politics, no hook to get you listening for the next episode. It’s just a lovely small window into academia. Above all it makes things simple without dumbing it down

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

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post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s my understanding that 0 is completely deterministic, except for when the model is updated, which does happen occasionally.

Their docs say (somewhat recently updated, I think) that even 0 is not perfectly deterministic in all cases (though it's very close). Some people had previously observed this and speculated that it was some kind of floating point roundoff issue, when two outputs have almost identical scores.

GPU's often do floating point computations in nondeterministic order for performance reasons, so you would get small differences even for exactly the same order. It is probably that.

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

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I'm not sure this one about sewage is correctly classified. It's in agriculture, presumably because it mentions fertilizing fields. It probably fits better under engineering. https://genmon.github.io/braggoscope/2022/12/29/the-great-st...

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

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Finally, my interest in LLMs is piqued! Seems like everyone has been getting excited around the search or code-generation use cases ... or simply trying to make it say naughty things (boring, not interested, wake up in a few more years), but this is eye opening. The idea of this as a "universal coupler" is fascinating, and I think I agree with the author that we are probably standing at an early-90s-web moment with L…

It’s awesome for formatting and structuring.

Copy and paste a bunch of styled JS components -> get back out a single CSS sheet

Paste in a markdown document -> get out the same thing in HTML

Fun stuff like that.

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

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post #33

I love this project!! Ever since my partner and I discovered In Our Time a few years back, it’s been our go-to podcast to listen to together. Part of the allure is that the archive is so vast, but that makes it hard to browse. My partner made her own archive of In Our Time here, if you’re interested: https://shelby.cool/melvyn/ She used Wikipedia to find and categorize each episode. I also really like that she indexe…

No way! This is incredible. That h1 "Hello," Is the tagging manual? It's really good.

It's definitely not manual, here are the scripts she used to generate the archive: https://github.com/shelbywilson/melvyn/tree/main/scripts

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

#79
post #63

I always assumed the podcast was current with the show but it seems like it's about 4 weeks behind. e.g. I have Tycho Brahe on March 2 in my podcast app, rss shows it released Feb 2.

That's recent. Everybody wants a walled garden.

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

#80
post #77

Finally, my interest in LLMs is piqued! Seems like everyone has been getting excited around the search or code-generation use cases ... or simply trying to make it say naughty things (boring, not interested, wake up in a few more years), but this is eye opening. The idea of this as a "universal coupler" is fascinating, and I think I agree with the author that we are probably standing at an early-90s-web moment with L…

It’s awesome for formatting and structuring. Copy and paste a bunch of styled JS components -> get back out a single CSS sheet Paste in a markdown document -> get out the same thing in HTML Fun stuff like that.

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