kidnoodle

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by kidnoodle 5d ago
At work, standing up openmetadata to capture data lineage from airflow. At home, increasing the number of libraries I can check live availability for for Leafle. (Library software is a wild place man)
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by kidnoodle 6d ago
No probs! I’d be super interested to hear how it does if you give it a try.
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by kidnoodle 6d ago
It is gonna be a bit variable - it has definitely got less knowledge of non-English literature. Couple of French friends tried it out and it did a reasonable job though!
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by kidnoodle 6d ago
Morning hacker news folks. I made this thing I call leafle - it is a bot you can talk to about books, that can give you suggestions for books you can borrow right now at your local library (at least for 6,900ish libraries it can: https:&#x
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Show HN: Book recommendations with live library availability(leafle.nanosheep.net)
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by kidnoodle 10d ago
My local library collocates with a cinema these days - I, and many others, were originally super sceptical about this, mostly because the arrangement made a public service and space sort beholden to a commercial entity. Happily in practice
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by kidnoodle 12d ago
Love a serif (but then I miss writing my docs in latex so..)
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by kidnoodle 12d ago
I’ve carried on working on my llm powered book recommendation engine, Leafle (try it out if you like! https://leafle.nanosheep.net ). Mostly this week I’ve been wrestling with a better solution to filtering openrouter providers b
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by kidnoodle 1mo ago
I suppose potentially the upside with books is it takes a while to exhaust the shallow wins compared to music and movies because the investment of time is that much greater.
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by kidnoodle 2mo ago
Oh for sure. I think there’s a lot of potential in llms for this (lot more sophisticated approaches possible than what I have here). Ultimately it should be like one of those fantasy setting librarians or book sellers who looks you up and d
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by kidnoodle 2mo ago
A few things - it checks the books it suggests actually exist is maybe the most important (I was really bummed to discover some Claude suggested for me did not). My main reason for building it was to hep me find stuff from the library, so t
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by kidnoodle 2mo ago
Oh how annoying! Sorry, that should be fixed now - that was a flow I didn’t account for originally (I figured people would chat first an upload once it gave them suggestions).
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by kidnoodle 2mo ago
Thanks! I’ll have a look
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by kidnoodle 2mo ago
You should be in now! Just trying to manage my limited credit that I’m funding the openrouter account with.
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by kidnoodle 2mo ago
Aha! I was posting about a thing I made for just this purpose the other day - it is called Leafle. You talk to it about books you’ve read and enjoyed or not, and it uses that plus the fact that llms have very extensive knowledge of pretty m
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by kidnoodle 2mo ago
I’ve been playing around with exploiting LLMs having ‘read’ every book ever written to make a chatbot to help people choose library books. You talk to it a bit about things you’ve read, and it uses the llm’s latent knowledge of books to sug
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by kidnoodle 3mo ago
I’ve been playing around with using llms to recommend me books I can get from my local library based on the model’s latent knowledge of books it has ‘read’ and a conversation with it about books I’ve liked.
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by kidnoodle 5mo ago
I had a theory that the way to solve this was a location intelligence data union which sold safely anonymised aggregates and shared the profits, while also litigating on behalf of members under available legislation to stop other people usi
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by kidnoodle 11mo ago
A new spin on my slow baking location intelligence data union ( https://wherelabs.info ). This week I’m thinking about whether it makes sense to provide a location history ‘vault’, designed to let users expose their location histo
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by kidnoodle 11mo ago
A new spin on my slow baking location intelligence data union ( https://wherelabs.info ). This week I’m thinking about whether it makes sense to provide a location history ‘vault’, designed to let users expose their location histo
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by kidnoodle 1y ago
Still slowly working away on my location intelligence data union.. I’ve spent a while understanding what sort of market would make it viable. I think it does actually work if you can square: 10K participants per major metro area, revenue of
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by kidnoodle 1y ago
I’ve been working more on the unit economics of my data union/trust idea ( https://wherelabs.info/ ). What I’m trying to understand is whether it is viable to pay people ~$5 per week for sharing their location data and d
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by kidnoodle 1y ago
I think at least initially the ‘product’ is datasets which don’t show individuals. You could of course build out a future direction which is differentially private. More or less my initial approach to this is you take a grid, and you show m
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by kidnoodle 1y ago
I’m still slowly working on a location intelligence data union ( https://wherelabs.info ) - the idea is people install an app and agree in a very upfront way to have their location tracked over time. The union monetises this by se
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by kidnoodle 1y ago
I built an app for iOS and android recently with a combination of Claude, and cursor. I started off by drawing Claude a picture of what I wanted the app to look like, and telling it to give me the skeleton of an iOS app. (It did a surprisin
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by kidnoodle 1y ago
I’m playing around with the idea of a location intelligence data union. I work in an adjacent space, and it drives me crazy that there’s all this data about humans moving around that could make a huge positive difference in the world but it
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by kidnoodle 3y ago
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by kidnoodle 4y ago
Flowminder | Southampton, UK | Full time/part time | Remote (UK) | Full stack software engineer (frontend bias) | python/react I'm looking for someone to join my small but wily team of engineers and help me build a new, open
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by kidnoodle 4y ago
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by kidnoodle 4y ago
A thoroughly panic inducing example is the basis for Anna Meredith’s Sawbones - https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=TsgNYUfdv9A&feature=share

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