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That's why you should compare languages in proper environments, not make an irrelevant point about some mobile development platforms.

And that has what exactly to do with Lisp? Pretty much irrelevant to the language itself.

"You don't have permission to access url"

Because Obsidian exists, is finished, has a community, and is in use?

I mean, by this definition it's competing with a small paper noteblock and a graphite pencil. Lose the USB and everything is gone, forgo all features of Obsidian, etc.

IME, computational linguistics is just NLP and has been for 10 years or so.

1. Sadly, they are for most tasks, yes.

2. Linguist, not computational linguist. ;)

It's not.

It's not about the information, but the connection to all Google services.

I don't know if I would use a framework named after something that's by nature unreliable, or even devious.

A bit OT: does anyone have experiences with Mistral AI as a comparison to OpenAI or Anthropic? I would like to stay with a European company, if they're somewhat equivalent.

200$ for correct latex

I don't know whether treating a model as a database is really a good measure.

> but it seems silly to me to say oral traditions aren't durable and that writing is the only way to get at history

I mean, it is true. There are no oral traditions left of the Sumerians or the Assyrians that I know of. Meanwhile, you can find buildings and clay tablets and translate them.

> The classical Greeks could see Mycenaean ruins.

Apparently, they Minoans had plumbing in the 1800s BC, so I'm sure the Greeks would have been surprised at what had preceded them by a long time.

I don't know, this is what Google Play tells me.

Developed for an older android version, so I cannot use it.

The pen is octnrtimes really imprecise. Sometimes up to 1-2 mm.

I find mine close to useless. The pen is sometimes really inconsistent, to the point where the ink gets applied 1mm from the pen tip. Also, no canvas for pdf annotation, no split screen, no search in pdfs and notes, only tags, etc. It's strictly worse than paper for me.

The title is fake news. Lindner and Scholz have had political differences, especially over new debt, and thus the coalition was dissolved after months of disagreement. Not over Taurus missiles.

Good point, I forgot about affiliate links.

> Legally, you can probably use the Google Books API for a project like this (whereas I couldn't due to their rules). Or, you could also use Open Library since you don't need great data quality, only the title and author to get this running. For me it was some of the other quality issues that made it not worth my time back then.

I think, UX wise I'd be in a similar position to you, since 1.) I'd need a short description of the book as well, and 2.) definitely in german, too. So, I'd probably have to create a lot of data myself.

> Not a good one: https://forauthors.shepherd.com/roadmap

> Improve the accuracy of our genre / topic system (as of right now, it is not doing well). And I am working to add themes and tropes into he mix.

I think, that's a good focus. Good quality structured data is quite good to have.

> Add a monthly "fav read of month" program for readers.

I'd definitely use this. Are you planning on adding a lot more interactivity/"blogging" features on the reader side?

It'll be interesting to see the development in the next year, big plans! I'll definitely keep an eye on the site.

Calling a LLM 'him' will always amuse me.

> That is a very cool idea! I've been thinking about something like that to help fund the website, which is a network of book trades, and you get credit for a new used book for every trade. Although I was going to charge $10 a year or $1 a book to go 80% toward authors and 20% toward the website.

Sounds like a nice way to generate some funding, especially as you already have a number of users on your site to start with. I have no idea how much bureaucracy it takes to be able to take 5% of each transaction or so, so I'll probably leave mine completely free - if I ever get the time to implement it, that is.

> When I last looked in 2020, the data quality on open library was really bad, so I didn't use them.

> Now things are 90% automated, but we still have to source a high quality cover for each book as the book APIs have such small images.

Not great, since that would have been a starting point for me. ;) Cool though, that you can invest into a custom database, since you can tailor it to your task and aren't relying on potentially bad data.

> I am hoping to expand our book DB in 2025 to all books for a lot of the new features.

Is there a public roadmap somewhere for the features?

> I also could have been too pedantic back in 2020 when i looked at them :)

Maybe, maybe not. It takes huge effort to go back and improve a system relying on bad data, especially if it's already a certain size. I know from experience, as my company just did that with a large internal catalogue. Not fun.

Currently, I'm working as a Data Scientist on document retrieval/text matching, and I have a masters degree in a topic close to computer science and linguistics.

> Here are a few, are these interesting or too mundane?

Thanks, I'll have a look. It's quite interesting, even if it's not very technical, since recently I started thinking about building a book trade or selling network for close friends and their friends (invitation based).

> It is python / Django on the backend, nothing crazy I think.

A solid choice, I think.

Do you use something like openlibrary.org as well?

Great to hear. Also, a very interesting topic for me since this is close to my masters degree and current job. For a niche topic like ancient mesopotamia I was surprised. Is there a blog post or something about how the site works behind the scenes?

> then we will email you once the page is ready.

Ah, I completely missed this part. Long day.

> Ya sorry, brand new and working on the profile to improve it and the image bit.

Don't worry, so far I like the site quite a bit, especially since there is much more about ancient mesopotamia than I had thought!

> You get a cool page like this -> https://shepherd.com/bboy/2024/f/bwb

How do I get to my page? The profile section is very spartan. I'm not even sure whether my profile picture was submitted.

Good thing psychedelics aren't addictive.

I don't either. I tried getting into it (and recently Satisfactory) and I find it boring.

Nice, just this week I started developing a roguelike in Python, but Lisp might be cool as well.