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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 v7n »

mattlondon wrote: post #55

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…

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.

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

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Post by theodorewiles »

genmon wrote: post #19
aardvark179 wrote: post #16

I see several very dubious classifications. Shouldn’t the great stink be under civil engineering rather than agriculture, and why is Plato’s Atlantis under computer science?

Now that's an interesting regression! I don't remember seeing it there before. (The worst I've noticed before has been Lawrence of Arabia under History of the Ancient World. Very much 20th century really.) Several other classifications are arguable -- which I think shows one of the limitations of this technique: it's not possible to iterate + improve. So instead I've been wondering about using the embeddings of each…

FYI you can get dewey decimals programmatically by hacking the OCLC API: http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/api_docs/classify.html

this says you need an API key but I think I found some way to call this without one… You might be able to improve classification by either incorporating the dewey decimals of the books mentioned on a podcast or fine-tuning a model based on known book titles (or maybe there are book summaries somewhere) to known dewey decimals from OCLC.

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

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Post by theodorewiles »

genmon wrote: post #51
theodorewiles wrote: post #35

I emailed you but did something similar and posted to Show HN a while back - https://weekend-collection.s3.amazonaws.com/Catalog+-+Feb+17...

Just to make sure that others see this, I found your clustering technique super interesting and very effective, and something I want to try myself. Your technical writeup is here: https://weekendcollection.substack.com/p/technical-details (Recursive coarse clustering as opposed to one-shot fine clustering.)

thanks!

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

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Post by TaylorAlexander »

v7n wrote: post #81
mattlondon wrote: post #55

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…

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.

I did not realize it could do that. I asked it to generate a cube with a hole through the center and it really struggled to succeed. Interesting concept though!

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

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Post by FearNotDaniel »

simonw wrote: post #60

I wanted to see which speakers had been on the most episodes. I went to https://genmon.github.io/braggoscope/guests and opened the Firefox DevTools console and ran this: guests = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('ul a.text-blue-500.underline')).map(el => ({ name: el.innerText, count: parseInt(el.nextElementSibling.textContent.slice(1, -1), 10) })) Then this: guests.sort((a, b) => a.count The top few were: [ { "na…

Ah, now that's interesting, having attended Schaffer's lectures at uni many years ago, I wasn't sure if it was my imagination that I seemed to hear his mellifluent drone coming out of the wireless more and more often these days... at last a stat to back up my hunch!

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

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Post by aslfjiasf »

DC-3 wrote: 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 clicked on the May Fourth movement because I thought it was odd that BBC would make a documentary about the origins of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Day.

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

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Post by martinpw »

dendrite9 wrote: post #73
DC-3 wrote: 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.

I like the way they keep the very end of where the producer comes into the studio and asks the guests politely if they want coffee or tea. Something very satisfyingly British about that.
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