[HN Gopher] Perplexingly Book-Learned Emacs
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       Perplexingly Book-Learned Emacs
        
       Author : tmseidman
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2025-04-19 12:13 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | Scarblac wrote:
       | Is there really not some API out there that knows about all
       | published books? Paid, if necessary?
        
         | squeegee_scream wrote:
         | I think there are, the author says so, but according to author
         | they don't make clear if a book is a new edition, translation,
         | etc of a previously published book. So getting a list of
         | published works wherein "A Book Title" is a single result and
         | "A Book Title 2nd edition", "A Book Title 3rd edition", etc are
         | not listed in addition to "A Book Title", doesn't exist. I
         | would think it's possible to write a layer of logic that takes
         | a list of published books and removes extra editions,
         | translations, etc to get what the author wants but perhaps the
         | problem is more difficult than I realize
        
           | Y_Y wrote:
           | When is a book the same as another?
        
       | b5n wrote:
       | `gptel` supports perplexity, among many others.
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       | https://github.com/karthink/gptel
        
       | xhevahir wrote:
       | 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.
        
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