[HN Gopher] Tool for Thought (2005)
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Tool for Thought (2005)
Author : walterbell
Score : 47 points
Date : 2023-03-19 06:51 UTC (16 hours ago)
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| walterbell wrote:
| https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/books/review/tool-for-tho...
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| _> There 's a fundamental difference between searching a
| universe of documents created by strangers and searching your own
| personal library. When you're freewheeling through ideas that you
| yourself have collated -- particularly when you'd long ago
| forgotten about them -- there's something about the experience
| that seems uncannily like freewheeling through the corridors of
| your own memory. It feels like thinking._
|
| Has anyone applied a local-only LLM to their personal library?
| graboid wrote:
| I think a lot of people are thinking about that right now. At
| least I read that idea a lot here on HN and on Twitter.
|
| I personally cannot wait to try it. But for now, I wait until
| there are better options for local LLMs. Given the current
| development speed of all things AI, probably that won't take
| too long.
| nmcfarl wrote:
| I've not tried it but this Obsidian plugin does exactly this to
| your notes: https://github.com/exoascension/vault-
| chat/tree/main
|
| I think it's just a matter of time to scale it to something
| larger.
| rpastuszak wrote:
| Thanks for sharing, but bear in mind that this plugin sends
| data to Open AI.
| nmcfarl wrote:
| It certainly does -- and I expect anything in this space
| that gets successfully commercialized will likewise siphon
| all of your personal data into a large corporation. But
| then I am a pessimist about these matters.
| walterbell wrote:
| As a positive precedent, OpenAI's Whisper speech
| recognition is open-source and can be run locally with
| zero data exposure,
| https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-
| technology/whispers...
|
| Some progress with local LLMs:
| https://arstechnica.com/information-
| technology/2023/03/you-c...
|
| _> Things are moving at lightning speed in AI Land. On
| Friday, a software developer named Georgi Gerganov
| created a tool called "llama.cpp" that can run Meta's
| new GPT-3-class AI large language model, LLaMA, locally
| on a Mac laptop. Soon thereafter, people worked out how
| to run LLaMA on Windows as well. Then someone showed it
| running on a Pixel 6 phone, and next came a Raspberry Pi
| (albeit running very slowly)._
| [deleted]
| walterbell wrote:
| _> The software I use now is called DevonThink.. it is only
| available for Mac OS X._
|
| A subset of functionality is available on iOS as "DevonThink To
| Go", with optional sync to the Mac desktop version via WebDAV or
| cloud services, https://devontechnologies.com/apps/devonthinktogo
| gabrielsroka wrote:
| Steven Johnson is one of my favorite people. I created a playlist
| of 150 of his videos from YouTube.
| https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ4_Rj_Aw2YlwhpEHE4SRIbRD...
|
| This itself was a challenge because he has such a common name. I
| had to do a lot of it by hand.
|
| Also, I wonder if James Burke's Knowledge Web is relevant here.
| He is the creator of BBC Connections from the '70s and another
| one of my favorite people.
|
| https://k-web.org
| gbrindisi wrote:
| If DevonThink find a smart way to integrate an LLM it would be
| such a great level up.
| walterbell wrote:
| Apple Silicon includes an under-utilized Neural Engine,
| hopefully we'll learn more about their local-first, privacy
| oriented AI plans at WWDC,
| https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/neural-engine-tra...
| examplary_cable wrote:
| With the accelerating force of information generation, I keep
| thinking about how to cope with this much entropy coming from
| everywhere. I currently have a pretty strict "information diet"
| as no to drown in the sea of words and words and words.
|
| I'm also currently working on a "Tool for Thought" but as a
| browser. Fully customizable(plugins, themes, functions, HTML as
| UI etc)
|
| https://github.com/ilse-langnar/notebook
| funstuff007 wrote:
| The Ghost Map, by the author, is one of the best popular science
| books I've ever read.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Map
|
| It was quite satisfying to see someone solve an epidemic, rather
| than make things worse than if we had done nothing at all.
| kehao95 wrote:
| Hey folks, I've been really enjoying this discussion and wanted
| to chime in with some thoughts on the nature of personal
| knowledge bases. I've been dabbling in a side project that tries
| to address some of the issues mentioned here, mainly focusing on
| automation and the use of LLMs.
|
| I believe one of the main challenges in building a personal
| knowledge base is achieving the right balance between automation
| and manual curation. While automation can conserve time, it's
| crucial not to lose the personal touch that makes these knowledge
| bases meaningful and relevant to us as individuals. My approach
| aims to capture your readings as you browse the web. Though this
| is a simple approach, it focuses solely on your personal
| experience.
|
| In my project, I've been experimenting with using LLMs to help
| with information retrieval. The idea is to enhance the search
| experience by leveraging AI to not only find relevant content but
| also to provide context, answer questions, and offer insights.
| I've found that integrating LLMs can add a whole new dimension to
| exploring our personal libraries.
|
| I think it's essential for any knowledge management tool to be
| user-friendly and accessible, allowing people to focus on the
| content rather than getting bogged down by the tool itself.
|
| Anyway, just wanted to share some thoughts and ideas I've been
| playing with in my project. if you are interested. Please check
| out my project here. https://github.com/memex-life/memex
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