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The author believes that LLMs are toys and sets out to show that you can get some useless results if that's what you're looking for. Tiresome polemical exercise, but it does have the virtue of brevity.
The author believes that LLMs are toys and sets out to show that you can get some useless results if that's what you're looking for. Tiresome polemical exercise, but it does have the virtue of brevity.
Is there really not some API out there that knows about all published books? Paid, if necessary?
Is there really not some API out there that knows about all published books? Paid, if necessary?
There is absolutely not such an api. For one thing, nobody actually knows because nothing stops random people from publishing a book at any time. For another, the major book publishers like amazon want to prevent anyone else from having their data. Beyond that, book metadata is probably the least standardized thing I have ever seen in my entire life. Titles, subtitles, editions, editors vs authors, series...
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There is absolutely not such an api. For one thing, nobody actually knows because nothing stops random people from publishing a book at any time. For another, the major book publishers like amazon want to prevent anyone else from having their data. Beyond that, book metadata is probably the least standardized thing I have ever seen in my entire life. Titles, subtitles, editions, editors vs authors, series...
I thought ISBN numbers might be somewhat centralized. But I don't know anything about the domain.