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by vhpoet 2y ago
I'd be cautious about providing direct solutions, but generating and asking questions using AI, based on the context the user provides, could potentially help them see their issues from different angles and possibly uncover blind spots
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by vhpoet 3y ago
I've been juggling side projects while working full-time as an engineer for the last 15+ years. Most of these projects tanked, but a few have started to bring in some side income. About 6 months ago, I went fully self-employed. I'
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by vhpoet 4y ago
I've created a little tool to do a semantic search of the books on Read This Twice. I'm using Open AI embeddings to create vectors from the book descriptions and user reviews, which I then store in Pinecone. Whenever a user makes
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Show HN: Semantic search for books based on Open AI Embeddings and Pinecone(readthistwice.com)
3 points by vhpoet 4y ago|1 comments
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by vhpoet 5y ago
Have you seen this? https://www.readthistwice.com/libraries
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by vhpoet 5y ago
There's a less social version with private bookshelves here https://www.readthistwice.com/libraries
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by vhpoet 5y ago
Have you seen https://www.readthistwice.com ? (fyi, I'm the founder)
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by vhpoet 5y ago
Have you seen https://www.readthistwice.com ? (fyi, I'm the founder)
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by vhpoet 5y ago
Have you seen this? https://www.readthistwice.com/libraries
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by vhpoet 6y ago
One great way to find books to read is to see what people you look up to recommend. I've built a service that scans twitter for book recommendations from ~2000 thought leaders. https://www.readthistwice.com/people
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by vhpoet 6y ago
I'm currently working on your second need for book log / recommendations. So far we've managed to compile the biggest book recommendations database from celebrities / smart people on twitter. You can already save these b
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by vhpoet 6y ago
A shameless plug here, I've been working on a web app to tackle a small part of the issue here. Showing contextual recommendations from 1300+ leaders with verified quotes https://www.readthistwice.com
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by vhpoet 6y ago
I'm trying to tackle a small part of this by building https://www.readthistwice.com which gives contextual recommendations from 1300+ leaders. What I mean by contextual in this case is every recommendation comes with a veri
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by vhpoet 6y ago
See the full list at https://www.readthistwice.com/lists/best-cybersecurity-books
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Show HN: A compilation of cybersecurity book recommendations from 25 articles
4 points by vhpoet 6y ago|1 comments
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by vhpoet 6y ago
I analyzed 24 blog posts on API design (rest/graphql/rpc) and compiled a list of the books they recommended (sorted by the most popular ones first) https://www.readthistwice.com/lists/best-api-design-books .
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by vhpoet 6y ago
Thanks for your help! Reading the article now.
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by vhpoet 6y ago
That'd be super cool, sending you an email.
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by vhpoet 6y ago
What do you mean by "that's where the real money is"? I'm already building an email list, but not sure how exactly you propose monetizing it.
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by vhpoet 6y ago
Hey, thank you! Not to discourage you or anything but monetizing with affiliate book sales is a loong long way to replace a full time job. This post got to the HN front page (first time for me) and I'd be happy to make $15-30 today.. a
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by vhpoet 6y ago
hahah thank you! definitely check out their API, it's a bit messy, but works.
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by vhpoet 6y ago
In reality tho, there's a lot of manual work involved haha. Thank you! I get the images from Amazon api https://webservices.amazon.com/paapi5/documentation/ .
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by vhpoet 6y ago
Thank you! added them to our watchlist. They'll appear on the website as soon as we find book recommendations from them.
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by vhpoet 6y ago
Thank you! It's built on React/Node.
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by vhpoet 6y ago
Thank you! The website actually includes 1300+ people. Whose recommendations are you interested in?
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by vhpoet 6y ago
He means the website also has John Pipers and Timothy Kellers recommendations (they only recommend one book each tho). https://www.readthistwice.com/person/john-piper and https://www.readthistwice.com/
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by vhpoet 6y ago
Yup, if you click on the score it takes you to the Goodreads page.
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by vhpoet 6y ago
Thank you! The idea is not to "idolize" people, it's more of a new way to discover books. I know PG, I know his mentality and it's super useful when he recommends a book giving you context on why he recommends it. This d
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by vhpoet 6y ago
Thank you! Yea, we'll add the tag as soon as we have more of them. Do you have any people in mind? Give me their twitter usernames and I'll take a look.
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by vhpoet 6y ago
You can actually change the layout so you only see the titles and the covers. The button to change the layout is right above the list (note to self: make that more visible).

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