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There's a lot of summary tools, I feel what is lacking is exegesis. Most texts are too shallow as they are, and condensing them down makes them lose even more
by marginalia_nu 3y ago
There's a lot of summary tools, I feel what is lacking is exegesis. Most texts are too shallow as they are, and condensing them down makes them lose even more nuance. Software that could draw out hidden themes and understated points in a body of work would be incredibly useful.
- bennetthi 3y ago+1 that'd be awesome. As I don't have time to read a single article fully, but I definitely don't have time to 200 of them. Also....excited to learn a new word, "exegesis"
- dnlkwk 3y agoI think that's what makes summaries so difficult for skimming news, like on HN. For most professional use-cases, you kinda know what types of stuff you expect in a summary so you could possibly create templates. For example, internal calls are mostly around deliverables, due dates, blockers, etc. When casually reading, you don't know what you'll come across so getting a summary that really "hits" is difficult.
- ibestvina 3y agoCould you give an example of content where such critical distilation would be useful to you?
- just_boost_it 3y agoFor this kind of thing, you can use LDA to draw out topics, then use clever prompting using the results of that with RAG to create summaries.