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Suggestion, have better audio:
(1) Enunciate the words more clearly.
(2) To help with (1), slow down and speak fewer words per minute.
(3) At the end of a sentence, don't drop voice volume and enunciation clarity.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
So my energy levels have declined noticeably from age 20 to 30. I thought it was mostly my own chronic health issues causing accelerated aging, but many of my friends are making similar complaints. I did notice far before this point (e.g. age 10 to 20) that my patience for reading had gone down significantly. If I had to guess I'd say that in my case it's due to an underlying anxiety that started in early teens and n…
I never had ADHD or related attention problems. However, I find the way interwebs has evolved over years and to basically trained our brains to be so focused on super short pieces of simply digestible content has basically turned me off of longer form content. I’ve noticed my preference for immediate gratification has increased significantly. It feels like I’m developing an attention disorder in my middle age years.
I've nearly finished Moby Dick, but I don't know why, it's dreadful, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I guess it's historically interesting.
Possibly you guys are not losing the will or energy to read, you're merely discovering that the things you think you ought to read are terrible. Try only reading what you like. So what if it's short? Maybe your preference is right.
Hah! Here's what it had to say about itself this hour: > In a more self-referential turn, we examine the launch of HN Update itself. This initiative aims to provide hourly news broadcasts, summarizing top stories from Hacker News. While listeners appreciate the concept of curated news, there are concerns about the accuracy of the summaries and the potential for bias in representation. Community discussion suggests th…
:o wow, the AI is becoming self-aware!
Would be cool to create embeddings for historical HN posts, and then use a users favorite posts to personalize the post selection by averaging the embedding vectors for a users favorite posts then doing a cosine similarity search to select stories most likely to be of interest to a user. Although it would be even better to use a users like history, but I’m not sure if/how those can be accessed. Speaking of, I’m curio…
For each document intended for ingestion into a vector database:
- Use an LLM to generate a list of possible questions that the document is capable of answering (essentially equivalent to generating a quiz)
- Map these question embeddings back to the original documents
- Store document, document chunks, question 1, question 2, etc. into the vector database
So now when a person queries your RAG, you have the direct link from user query -> doc chunks, but additionally the transitionary link from user query -> similar query -> doc chunk.
Brilliant idea. I think this has real value as well: as I get older, I find that I have less energy for reading, but I also notice I often miss really cool stuff that was briefly on the front of HN. I like that it summarizes the comments too. There are often real gems buried in there. (I assume you're only taking a few top ones?) I think a great improvement could be made with personalization. Most of what's on the fr…
Wouldn't that argument hold true even if it was implemented here?
I did https://radio-hn.pages.dev/ last year in the same idea, just once per day. Posted it somewhere here at the time.
Interesting, I actually did a search before submitting mine, but I narrowed it down to the last year only. Yours being 2y/o didn't show up. You were ahead of your time!