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Re:The Grind a Day: thousands of Apple II floppy disks archived by TedDoesntTalk on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @11:12PM (#35065156)
> unfunded mandate.

Who is mandating it? It was an idea.

> It'd be like gathering every TV guide in a stack to then ask it to describe things that are like All in the Family, instead of just going through them as you gather them to indicate what each issue has information about.

Not really. Sure you have to gather the corpus, but you don’t have to go through it. You don’t have to read those TV guides or even use a search algorithm for “All In the Family.”

I was trying to be helpful. Seems like you think I’m attacking you. I admire your work and am in the scene myself to some degree. Good luck, Jason, and thank you.

Re:The Grind a Day: thousands of Apple II floppy disks archived by textfiles on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @11:19PM (#35065206)
You've modified your original comment (which I didn't know Hackernews allowed people to do). So now I look completely weird because it "seems" you only typed one word and I wrote something.

You wrote, essentially:

Why not train a LLM AI on the magazines, newsletters, documentation, etc, and have it generate the descriptions based on prompts?

...and I call this an "unfunded mandate", which is where someone comes along to a project, and tells them a bunch of things they should take on and do, instead of either offering to do something themselves, or pointing to a resource or project that fulfils the need that is being asked for.

The article is about me finding out that certain kinds of activities are jammed in a Catch-22 of necessity but lack of potential funding (time or money). Your idea shifts no needle and makes things more complicated, to no greater chance of success, but plenty of chance (contemporarily) of hallucination and misleading results.

Feel free to delete, I guess, even more.