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Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by gherkinnn »

Liquix wrote: post #143
vladsanchez wrote: post #141

What's your Pocket replacement? Wallabag, Hoarder or something else?

reading an article if it's interesting and moving on if it's not :~^) seriously though, i have struggled with tab/bookmark hoarding, it's a huge relief when you recognize it for what it is and quit. IME the bigger/dustier the backlog gets the more vague psychological guilt accumulates, a weight which isn't truly recognized until it's gone.

I'd like a fixed-sized queue of 10 links. Adding one more kicks the oldest and it can be only read as strict first-in-first-out.

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by Brendinooo »

apsurd wrote: post #152
gorgoiler wrote: post #148

Interesting article. Bizarrely it makes me wish I’d used Pocket more! Tangentially, with LLMs I’m getting very tired with the standard patter one sees in their responses. You’ll recognize the general format of chatty output: Platitude! Here’s a bunch of words that a normal human being would say followed by the main thrust of the response that two plus two is four. Here are some more words that plausibly sound human!…

How do you trust the recipe without context? People say they want one thing but then their actions and money go to another. I do agree there's unnecessary fluff. But "just give me the recipe" isn't really what people want. And I don't think your represent some outlier take because really have you ever gotten a recipe exactly as you outlined — zero context – and gave a damn to make it?

> But "just give me the recipe" isn't really what people want.

The structure of recipe sites has less to do with revealed preferences and more to do with playing the SEO game.

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by dietr1ch »

yubblegum wrote: post #168
juliendorra wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should be able to use Google Takeout to get all of your YouTube data, including your watch history. This article is a nice example of someone using it: > When I downloaded all my YouTube data, I’ve noticed an interesting file included. That file was named watch-history and it contained a list of all the videos I’ve ever watched. https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/youtube-usage/ Of course as an European it's a legal…

This can give a false sense of what Google (Alphabet) actually knows about you. That above is Google playing the game of 'ok, here is what we know of your activities on youtube when logged in!' But Google and the rest of the "advertising" (euphemism for surveillance) industry track and create "profiles" based on a basket of data points, from ip/MAC address to the rest of their bag of tricks.

Internally at Google a toy tool to peek into your own personal advertisement profile was released and taken down within a week or two because it was creepy knowledgeable about you.

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by nottorp »

janalsncm wrote: post #135
nottorp wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Instead of optimizing for engagement and ad revenue, these systems are optimized for user utility. Are they, or instead they will help keeping you in your comfort cage? Comfort cage is better than engagement cage ofc, but maybe we should step out of it once in a while. > During the RSS reader era, I was exposed to a lot of curated tech and design content and it helped me really develop taste and knowledge in these…

> Are they, or instead they will help keeping you in your comfort cage? I’ve been paying close attention to what YouTube shorts/tiktok do. They don’t just show you the same genre or topic or even set of topics. They are constantly in an explore-exploit pattern. Constantly trying to figure out the next thing that’ll keep your attention, show you a bunch of that content, then on to the next thing. Each interest cluster…

But you're describing the engagement cage, while I'm just pointing that you need to be careful not to escape from it just to get trapped inside the comfort cage.

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by UrineSqueegee »

saeedesmaili wrote: post #16

After reading this I realized I also have an archive of my pocket account (4200 items), so tried the same prompt with o3, gemini 2.5 pro, and opus 4: - chatgpt UI didn't allow me to submit the input, saying it's too large. Although it was around 80k tokens, less than o3's 200k context size. - gemini 2.5 pro: worked fine for personality and interest related parts of the profile, but it failed the age range, job role,…

o3 on the webui has a tiny context as do all the models

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by ycombinete »

burnte wrote: post #66
asveikau wrote: post #61

As someone with a family background of more left leaning Catholics (which I think are more common in the US northeast), it's interesting that it decided that you are conservative based on Catholicism.

Born in Pittsburgh, raised Catholic, pretty darn liberal. We had alter girls in the 90s, openly gay members who had ceremonies in the church, etc. I'm not catholic now but that was a good church in the 80s and 90s.

There’s a quip I heard recently that the most Protestant Christians are American Catholics.

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by marssaxman »

apsurd wrote: post #152
gorgoiler wrote: post #148

Interesting article. Bizarrely it makes me wish I’d used Pocket more! Tangentially, with LLMs I’m getting very tired with the standard patter one sees in their responses. You’ll recognize the general format of chatty output: Platitude! Here’s a bunch of words that a normal human being would say followed by the main thrust of the response that two plus two is four. Here are some more words that plausibly sound human!…

How do you trust the recipe without context? People say they want one thing but then their actions and money go to another. I do agree there's unnecessary fluff. But "just give me the recipe" isn't really what people want. And I don't think your represent some outlier take because really have you ever gotten a recipe exactly as you outlined — zero context – and gave a damn to make it?

> How do you trust the recipe without context?

Well, I just read it. The stakes are not that high!

> have you ever gotten a recipe exactly as you outlined — zero context – and gave a damn to make it?

Of course: there are a great many useful cookbooks written exactly this way.

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by morkalork »

swyx wrote: post #138
morkalork wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone recently did this to predict what would hit the HN front page based on article content + profiles of users.

link please? if you can find it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44302355
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