reply on: Capital Formation Weekly #1 \ stacker news ~mostly

366 sats \ 8 replies \ @ek 25 Feb \ parent \ on: Capital Formation Weekly #1 mostly_harmless

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. :)

https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/issues/542 ↩

138 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury OP 25 Feb

Ha, you guys are both right:

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.
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.

90 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 25 Feb

The term is text embeddings fyi

100 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 25 Feb

Okay. I thought I had the terms wrong, and maybe I credited the wrong person. I do really like it, whoever did it and whatever it's called.

40 sats \ 4 replies \ @ek 25 Feb

Haha, no worries, just wanted to add some context since people seem to like context :)

1319 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 25 Feb

I always look forward to your subtle ball breaking😀

128 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 25 Feb

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 👀

352 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 25 Feb

Your first thought was accurate:) Lots of US people of my generation (old) use that expression. I don't hear it as much anymore.

128 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 25 Feb freebie

oof, in that case you're now breaking my balls in a subtle way haha

I should have immediately asked Urban Dictionary

Footnotes