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Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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I don't eat breakfast.

What about second breakfast?

Sometimes a smoothie around 3pm that contains plant proteins, collagen protein, amazing grass, 1/4 cup of blueberries, ground chia seeds, and maca powder.

I've been intermittent fasting + keto for the majority of the past five years. The minority is when we cycle off keto for a week here and there by doing intermittent fasting + vegan.

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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I'm probably missing something here, but what is the value of this when you could write a script that would do just about the same? (Serious question, I want to know the answer, not rhetorical)

Huginn is more of a framework for writing and running these scripts. It has some built in modules to make the process easier. IE: The webhook agent is an easy want of getting POST data into a script without bootstrapping a webserver yourself, you can then just raise an event and have another script handle it. No need to write and manage everything individually, you can run everything in one place.

Yes, and this becomes exceedingly important as the number and complexity of automations increases.

Huginn can assist in organizing complex workflows into manageable components.

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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> Create Amazon Mechanical Turk workflows as the inputs, or outputs, of agents (the Amazon Turk Agent is called the "HumanTaskAgent"). For example: "Once a day, ask 5 people for a funny cat photo; send the results to 5 more people to be rated; send the top-rated photo to 5 people for a funny caption; send to 5 final people to rate for funniest caption; finally, post the best captioned photo on my blog."

Curious how this would turn out.

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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Fittingly, Munin is a sorta-popular server monitoring tool: http://munin-monitoring.org

I actually thought the thread was about that. The Muninn/Hugginn association is engraved in my brain. I blame EVE online.

Eve Online is produced here in Iceland and much of the language and norse mythology is worked into the game. Eve online uses ISK, we use ISK here.

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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post #143

> Create Amazon Mechanical Turk workflows as the inputs, or outputs, of agents (the Amazon Turk Agent is called the "HumanTaskAgent"). For example: "Once a day, ask 5 people for a funny cat photo; send the results to 5 more people to be rated; send the top-rated photo to 5 people for a funny caption; send to 5 final people to rate for funniest caption; finally, post the best captioned photo on my blog." Curious how t…

You should try it out.

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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From your defensive tone it sounds like you think I was talking about you, but I really wasn't. It's a phenomenon I've observed here and on Reddit and elsewhere for many years. And it seems like a perfect fit for a tool such as yours, is it not?

Very sorry! As I was the only "CEO" in here which product got criticized I thought it must have been me ;-) Yes would actually be perfect for it, but never had the time to set something like that up. Maybe someday in the future. For now, I only have a simple Google Alert set and regularly check HN and Google Analytics which is a good indicator when it got mentioned somewhere.

> As I was the only "CEO" in here which product got criticized I thought it must have been me ;-)

I don't think so.

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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It's fun to wake up to find a project that I started on the top of HN! These days, I'm no longer very involved with the day-to-day of the project. Now that it's no longer a young project, here are some musings about Huginn and responses to people's comments in this thread, in no particular order. I've found that Huginn excels as a scheduled web scraper with lightweight filtering. That's what I use it for. On the othe…

I'm excited to check this out, but I wanted to congratulate you on a truly excellent project name. Having spent many, many hours in naming struggles, I truly appreciate the perfection. And for those unfamiliar, the (also amazingly named) historian Snori Sturluson explains: "Two ravens sit on his (Odin’s) shoulders and whisper all the news which they see and hear into his ear; they are called Huginn and Muninn. He sen…

I get it about naming struggles. I built something to solve this, https://naminator.io

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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I've come across Huginn many times in the past and every time, I tell myself I'm going to give it a shot. I still haven't even seen it loaded in a web browser...

After fighting the Docker images for half an hour, I usually realize that I could've just written a Python script to do whatever I was trying to do by then and proceed to do just that.

Sorry for being lazy! Maybe I'll get around to it next year...

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