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Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline
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#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is the way of the internet unfortunately. Instead of simply appreciating something, it's important to find a criticism and voice it. That way you're 'adding' to the conversation. I mean look back at HN classic posts like the initial Dropbox announcement and the classic: this is nothing more than a wrapper over rsync, etc.
"This is like the HN dropbox post" is now a whole class off low-effort comment in itself.
This may be true, but I don't believe it makes it any less valid.
Perhaps the comment YOU made could also fall into that category? Pointing out a low-effort comment is ALSO a low-effort comment?
Re: Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline
#233Nah I'm not installing another JavaScript slop.
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#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
ZIM or not, I think the “LLM as optional sidecar” part is the right idea. The durable asset is the knowledge base itself. A local model can be useful on top, but it should stay a layer, not become the dependency.
Even with that setup I have unfortunately had a bad experience just using Qwen2.5-27B. I asked it once to take a large PDF of a book and find and quote all instances which mentioned food. After churning for a long time it eventually gave me several interesting excerpts, only one of which was real and the rest were hallucinations/confabulations. I hope we can get to the point where even a small distilled model at the…
Qwen2.5 is quite old at this point.
The new Qwen3.5 series is good, and it has a 27b dense model too.
I have to watch it but I've gotten surprising results out of the 4b model even.
They're also vision enabled and pretty good at ocr.
These were released in just the last few weeks.
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've looked a few times over the years but can't find it online. National Archives probably has it somewhere, but not indexed where Google can find it.
I sent a query into NARA. Maybe they know something. It's probably in some forgotten Civil Defense archive.
I got an answer back from NARA:
Specifically, you seek records related to practical instructions on how to rebuild society after a nuclear war.
We searched our holdings in Record Group 397, Records of the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency. We identified the series External Publications, 1955-1976 which may include records related to your query. A full citation is provided here for your reference:
Record Group 397
Records of the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency
External Publications, 1955-1976
Entry A1 56
Boxes 1 thru 37@ 650/42/30/2