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Re: Show HN: Talk to any ArXiv paper just by changing the URL

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And where does this mention a constant mutation of urls as a mnemonic system as a substitute for a form submission to provide a service in 1-1 correspondence to another service?

URLs can be manipulated. It’s even encouraged.

Really? I thought it was recommended for URLs to stay static, as to not break old links.

Re: Show HN: Talk to any ArXiv paper just by changing the URL

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The questions would come from reading a paper in particular. Have a question? Ask away. That's how I'd use it personally.

What I'm trying to say is I'm not used to think that way. I can't think of a question to ask.

You never have any doubts or uncertainties while reading a paper? Was that always a thing for you or did that grow with experience?

Re: Show HN: Talk to any ArXiv paper just by changing the URL

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What I'm trying to say is I'm not used to think that way. I can't think of a question to ask.

You never have any doubts or uncertainties while reading a paper? Was that always a thing for you or did that grow with experience?

Of course, but then I just go back and reread the relevan section(s).

The things I might be able to phrase into query is not something I trust the AI to be able to explain, like what are the downsides of the proposed algorithm for example (unless explicitly mentioned, which is seldom).

I guess I'll have to try to keep this project in mind next time I read an arXiv article, and give it a spin.

Re: Show HN: Talk to any ArXiv paper just by changing the URL

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Very nice; appears to work well. Just an FYI that I did get a couple errors where the max context length was exceeded, one using the demo summarization task as the first query. I was using my own API key when the error occured.

Thank you! Thanks for pointing that out, since the underlying RAG is rather naive (simple embedding cosine similarity lookup, as opposed to knowledge graph / advanced techniques), I opted to embed both "small" (512 character and below) chunks as well as entire section chunks (embedding the entire introduction) in order to support questions such as "Please summarize the introduction". Since I also use 5 chunks for eac…

This is the paper that would reliably trigger context overflows. https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03116 It otherwise did an admirable job on this brainbender.

Re: Show HN: Talk to any ArXiv paper just by changing the URL

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post #60

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URLs can be manipulated. It’s even encouraged.

Really? I thought it was recommended for URLs to stay static, as to not break old links.

URLs can be manipulated by the user. If they’re human-readable we can explore a site without links.

Consider something like phpbb. There are thousands of instances in the world, all with similar URLs. You might have some management script or bookmarks that rely on this URL structure and you can just change the domain name to use them on a new site.

Ditto for discovering historical blog posts on a wordpress site. Or interacting with a Stack Overflow.

Re: Show HN: Talk to any ArXiv paper just by changing the URL

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Idk where this changing the url thing started but I really like it.

It bugs me cause it's kinda true but kinda misleading, I don't know if casual web users realize it's a whole different domain. Sometimes it's not important, sometimes it is.

Yeah doesn't help that some browsers hide the full url.
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