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My wife and I have been keeping a daily journal since our first child was born in 2014 - about 100 - 200 words a day. (And before that i’d been doing it just fo

by dmd 3y ago

My wife and I have been keeping a daily journal since our first child was born in 2014 - about 100 - 200 words a day. (And before that i’d been doing it just for myself since 2006.) Besides just having it to go back to and read, something I’m really excited about is llm context windows getting large enough that I can feed the whole thing in (it’s about 1.5 million words) and ask questions. grep only goes so far.

bombcar 3y ago
The best part will be the LLM hallucinations of things that never happened, and then it gaslighting you. ;)
- rolisz 3y ago
  With RAG (so when you give it source text), hallucinations are greatly reduced (not completely, but greatly).
- passion__desire 3y ago
  I think you will like this short story by Ted Chaing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_of_Feeling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_o...
dghughes 3y ago
I've been keeping a food diary since Nov 2014. It started off as a reminder to myself to eat better and fewer calories. I don't want to break the chain I even recorded my meals during over a week of no power after hurricane Fiona. Here's my supper on day 1 if anyone is curious lol (note format is: day, month, year) Saturday 01/11/2014 Beans, Baked, molasses and pork Saturday 01/11/2014 Rice, Basmati, 1 cup Saturday 01/11/2014 Pop, Orange cream, 355ml Also my exercise inadvertently became a memory tool for me as well. Since being diagnosed with hypothyroid I noticed that my short-memory was not great. So this is a way to force myself to remember things I did today. Stuff I'd normally dismiss as unneeded info and clear it from my mind.
- LispSporks22 3y ago
  I did this for a few years. I started off listing component volumes and mass etc. Towards the end I was just noting “good” or “bad” (like how I thought I went) on a calendar, then not even consistently. I learned that this is how much of my approach to life works: Zeal followed by a gradual decline into indifference.
  - dleink 3y ago
    Do you retain after effects on behavior from the zeal phase?
leobg 3y ago
You can already do that now. Run a sliding window over it, collecting anything relevant to your question. Then, summarize the summaries. (Or run vector search. But everybody does that, so it’s boring. :))

by dmd 3y ago

bombcar 3y ago

The best part will be the LLM hallucinations of things that never happened, and then it gaslighting you. ;)

rolisz 3y ago
With RAG (so when you give it source text), hallucinations are greatly reduced (not completely, but greatly).
passion__desire 3y ago
I think you will like this short story by Ted Chaing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_of_Feeling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_o...

dghughes 3y ago

I've been keeping a food diary since Nov 2014. It started off as a reminder to myself to eat better and fewer calories. I don't want to break the chain I even recorded my meals during over a week of no power after hurricane Fiona. Here's my supper on day 1 if anyone is curious lol (note format is: day, month, year) Saturday 01/11/2014 Beans, Baked, molasses and pork Saturday 01/11/2014 Rice, Basmati, 1 cup Saturday 01/11/2014 Pop, Orange cream, 355ml Also my exercise inadvertently became a memory tool for me as well. Since being diagnosed with hypothyroid I noticed that my short-memory was not great. So this is a way to force myself to remember things I did today. Stuff I'd normally dismiss as unneeded info and clear it from my mind.

LispSporks22 3y ago
I did this for a few years. I started off listing component volumes and mass etc. Towards the end I was just noting “good” or “bad” (like how I thought I went) on a calendar, then not even consistently. I learned that this is how much of my approach to life works: Zeal followed by a gradual decline into indifference.
- dleink 3y ago
  Do you retain after effects on behavior from the zeal phase?

leobg 3y ago

You can already do that now. Run a sliding window over it, collecting anything relevant to your question. Then, summarize the summaries. (Or run vector search. But everybody does that, so it’s boring. :))