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BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT
genmon.github.io#in our time#dewey decimal#podcast archive#gpt-3#bbc podcast
How HN took it
24 positive, 24 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 12 critical, out of 62 comments about the project. Thread score +0.22.
Idea: 13 for, 5 againstExecution: 0 for, 6 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful way to browse and discover episodes
From 3 comments
This is a really interesting use-case Applying "transformations" or classifying data in this way without having to setup a lot of detail-work seems like a real…
valgaze on HNI love this project!! Ever since my partner and I discovered In Our Time a few years back, it’s been our go-to podcast to listen to together. Part of the allure is that the…
astroalex on HNThis is amazing, and exactly the kind of thing I’ve been hoping for to help us find the gems in the endless stream of excellent content. What would it take to go deeper on this…
joshspankit on HN
Impressive use of LLMs for structured data extraction
From 3 comments
Web scraping is usually pretty tedious, but I found that I could send the minimised HTML to GPT-3 and get (almost) perfect JSON back: the prompt includes the Typescript…
ourmandave on HNNo longer does Tony the Pony need to parse XHTML with regex. Who knew GPTs would be the actual solution?
cheschire on HNThis is actually amazing
devharshit on HN
Objections
Some Dewey classifications are wrong or questionable
From 4 comments
I see several very dubious classifications. Shouldn’t the great stink be under civil engineering rather than agriculture, and why is Plato’s Atlantis under computer science?
aardvark179 on HNI'm not sure this one about sewage is correctly classified. It's in agriculture, presumably because it mentions fertilizing fields. It probably fits better under engineering.…
SomewhatLikely on HNTea under Economics and coffee under Technology > Home and family management... some... interesting decisions in here.
arsome on HNAt the same time I asked for a Dewey classification... and it worked. May I ask - how do you know exactly? Specifically - with what level of accuracy? And how is it assessed? At…
lisasays on HN
Episode titles wrong for some subtitled episodes
From 1 comment
Some episodes that have subtitles are titled incorrectly (only using the subtitle). For example, this episode [1] is the first of a pair of episodes called The Written World, but…
jgtrosh on HN
Requests
Semantic search or transcription with Whisper
From 2 comments
I love In Our Time, a real BBC gem. I've been meaning to pull all the audio for a while and this has inspired me. A fun thing to do would be to pass through Whisper, a great…
specproc on HNLove it - also a huge fan of In our Time. V2 would be: - Transcribe through Whisper - Semantic search
maccaw on HN
Alphabetical topic list
From 1 comment
It is an interesting approach and I appreciate it. However, an alphabetical list would be more useful for me when I am interested in topics and might not know where they are…
jccalhoun on HN
Questions
What prompt was used
From 2 comments
What's the prompt?
PaulHoule on HN> Web scraping is usually pretty tedious, but I found that I could send the minimised HTML to GPT-3 and get (almost) perfect JSON back: the prompt includes the Typescript…
nextaccountic on HN
How accuracy was measured and how errors are fixed
From 2 comments
At the same time I asked for a Dewey classification... and it worked. May I ask - how do you know exactly? Specifically - with what level of accuracy? And how is it assessed? At…
lisasays on HNHow perfect is almost perfect? How do you correct errors?
OOPMan on HN
Alternatives named
Wikipedia-based manual categorisation by a partner's archive
From 1 comment
I love this project!! Ever since my partner and I discovered In Our Time a few years back, it’s been our go-to podcast to listen to together. Part of the allure is that the…
astroalex on HN
Weekend Collection catalog
From 1 comment
I emailed you but did something similar and posted to Show HN a while back - https://weekend-collection.s3.amazonaws.com/Catalog+-+Feb+17.html
theodorewiles on HN