Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

blog.google

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

101–110 of 197 posts

Re: NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

#101

Post by pmarreck »

tapoxi wrote: post #63
mattkevan wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I reckon the same dipshits responsible for Microsoft’s product naming in the early 2000s all moved on to Google to wreak the same havoc there.

Their current product naming is still terrible.They went from the Xbox, to the Xbox 360, the Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox One X, Xbox Series S, and Xbox Series X. The latest console is the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X

Gaming’s home deserves to be on Linux.

I know GabeN agrees with me, and he’s worked hard to make it happen.

Re: NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

#102

Post by blitzar »

d4rkp4ttern wrote: post #69
citiguy wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh wow, this is a great idea. Can I ask what your prompt looks like?

Me: Ok so I'm going on a walk. I'll dump a link to a Hacker News discussion about an article. You have to read the article and the discussion and walk me thru all the interesting details, nugget by nugget, and move on when I'm ready for the next piece. ChatGPT Live: ok, Great show me the link, I'm waiting. (I paste the link) Me: Ok I pasted it. Now go. ==== For the Socratic quiz I say: I want to understand this more…

> You have to read the article

Nahh - pile in based on the title and what you assume the contents might be.

Re: NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

#104

Post by nickvec »

rhipitr wrote: post #40

Any people with insight on why this happens? From my corporate experience this generally happens when two teams are working on a similar thing, they complain about turf to leadership, and leadership either makes them consolidate efforts or chooses a winner. Is that what happens at Google a lot? Or do they just constantly tweak things to the point they cease to live or be used?

I would imagine it's just a branding/marketing thing so that the product is directly associated by consumers as being within the Gemini ecosystem (and thus Google) from the product name alone. NotebookLM doesn't convey that, but Gemini Notebook does.

Re: NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

#105

Post by MarioMan »

NoImmatureAdHom wrote: post #20

I'd like to have audio overviews of scientific papers, so I can "read" them while I drive. NotebookLM/Gemini Notebook sorta does this, but the two-person podcast format is kind of annoying and it can't pronounce math. Is there something out there that will do this? I'm sure the right harness around frontier models would make it work.

Google Illuminate does this. I believe it was actually a precursor to Gemini Notebook. It uses a similar podcast generating model but tuned to keep things more technical and detailed.

https://illuminate.google.com/

Re: NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

#106

Post by Alien1Being »

I used it to listen to a high level walkthrough of interesting and entertaining code while driving to work.

Of course I then read the source myself afterwards.

So far I have used it for the Plan 9 C code for ed and for the C source for Karpathy's toy llm. I plan to use it later today for the ed source from Unix Ver 1 in the original PDP 7 assembly code.

Hearing it talk about Ken Thompson's bit stealing trick was enlightening.

Since I am not a C programmer, getting a bird's eye view first is useful.

Re: NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

#107

Post by realsarm »

petra wrote: post #94
hek2sch wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Best closest I stumble on is nouswise. Lets you contain an agent with even more sources and generate almost all outputs.

No pricing, "call for demo". Not sure this is for personal use.

Pricing with a long table comparison for the 3 plans https://nouswise.com/pricing

Are you looking for this?

Re: NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

#108

Post by nunez »

Much better name for this well-designed product. I do wish they made it easier to pull in emails. For the one notebook I needed to make, I had to use gyb and mhonarc to retrieve the emails (from GMail), convert them to text and split them in a way that the Notebook would accept.

Re: NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

#109

Post by satvikpendem »

lardosaurusrex wrote: post #79
d4rkp4ttern wrote: post #46

When notebookLM was new, it was interesting to listen to the podcasts. Then the novelty wore off, and I wanted something where I can interact with the podcasters but it was janky as hell. My current “audio-learning” hack is ChatGPT Live which has become shockingly good after being awful compared to Claude Voice (Let’s not even talk about Gemini voice which is still bad). I go on a walk and dump a paper or article lin…

>hack >podcast slop >letting the llm do it for you there is a very good reason microsoft's ceo got repeatedly dunked on and it was because he literally couldn't stop babbling incoherently about having AI listen to things for him i cannot imagine just sucking the joy out of life like this.

They do it for joy when they go on a walk, so perhaps what you find joyful are different than them, not sure why you care.
Post reply on HN