1404 sats \ 9 replies \ @siggy47 25 Feb \ on: Capital Formation Weekly #1 mostly_harmless
Excellent idea. I just took my dog for a long walk and thought about your ideas regarding synthesis, and your suggestion for me to do a meta post about my newsletter. Your idea here is even better. I remember a few months back when you were hounding @k00b and @ek about something like "embedded search", but I didn't know what you were talking about. Once it was implemented, the value it brings is immense in tying posts together and increasing visibility for older content. This post is similar. During my first year on SN I spent a lot of time dredging up old posts to read. It felt like a shame that, at least for me, they were so difficult to find. I actually toyed with the idea of doing a weekly newsletter where I would dredge up "golden oldies" and highlight a few for visibility. That was probably why I started the Books And Articles newsletter after @Scoresby suggested it.
I can't wait to see where you take your idea
Once it was implemented, the value it brings is immense in tying posts together and increasing visibility for older content.
I think you mean the update that @k00b did to our search engine which now uses a neural network to find similar posts with "once it was implemented".
I agree, it's very valuable to find similar posts this way. Kudos to @k00b for that!
But I think with "embedded search", a search while writing a reply was meant.1 For example, you could simply type
/ in your reply and a search would popup to find the post you want to link to. Just like you can currently @ and a search for all users shows up. This way, you don't need to stop writing your comment to link to a post. We haven't implemented that yet though.During my first year on SN I spent a lot of time dredging up old posts to read. It felt like a shame that, at least for me, they were so difficult to find.
It's still a shame that there are no obvious, only abstract rewards for that currently but we will get there, I think. :)
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Ha, you guys are both right:
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I was talking about embeddings-based search, which is an incredibly flexible and powerful way to find similar content. I still have many ideas about this -- the current [upgraded] search I believe uses something in this direction, but not what I was imagining.
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The ability to do embeddings in an embedded fashion, akin to a PKM and w/ a fluid UI, would truly be a game changer. But that's a more challenging design problem, and you could get a long way even without this.
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The term is text embeddings fyi
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Now you need to help me out. What is "ball breaking"? I only found references to baseball. The first thing that I was thinking of was a very painful thing haha
maybe you meant exactly "ball breaking" as in baseball, just applied to my comments in some way 👀
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oof, in that case you're now breaking my balls in a subtle way haha
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