[HN Gopher] Personal computing paves the way for personal librar...
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       Personal computing paves the way for personal library science
        
       Author : _bramses
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2024-04-28 21:57 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | walterbell wrote:
       | _> Personal Library Science is the leverage of LLM technology,
       | applied to a personal library. A personal library differs from a
       | impersonal library in the fact that a personal library is an
       | interpretation of a source material. These interpretations
       | include: photographs from different photographers at the same
       | event, or favorite scenes from a movie, or favorite passages from
       | books, parts of songs that bring you to tears, etc. Importantly,
       | these interpretations create unique sets that go on to create
       | unique problems which require unique, idiosyncratic solutions._
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       | Would an LLM-driven "Personal Library" require manually annotated
       | textual interpretation of each curated item, or could it derive
       | personal interpretations from user history and the uniqueness of
       | curated items/sets?
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       | For those who have been using local, offline LLMs with a manually
       | curated text/image corpus, what have been the most valuable or
       | surprising use cases?
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       | Author demo video (2023), https://youtube.com/watch?v=7TgqMRz2r3M
       | & comment (2024) on tooling,
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39789712
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       |  _> Inspired by the commonplace book format, I take highlights
       | from Kindle and embed them in a DB. From there I build (multiple)
       | downstream apps but the central one, Commonplace Bot is a bot
       | that serves as a retrieval and transformer for said highlights._
        
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