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Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by HarHarVeryFunny on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:20PM (#41733362)
The most amazing thing with notebooklm is that is can turn your docs into a very high quality podcast of two people discussing the content of your docs.
Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by supafastcoder on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:31PM (#41733476)
It's fun the first time but it quickly gets boring.
Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by 8338550bff96 on Thursday October 03, 2024 @03:09PM (#41733880)
Finding signal in noise is not an easy job given clip things are moving along. Whatever content creators need to do to deliver quality distilled content - I'm here for it.
Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by ben_w on Thursday October 03, 2024 @05:19PM (#41735114)
Juggling dog. It's not very good, but it's amazing that it's possible at all.

https://github.com/BenWheatley/Timeline-of-the-near-future

I've only used the "Deep Dive" generator a few times, and I'm already sensing the audio equivalent of "youtube face" in the style — not saying that's inherently bad, but this is definitely early days for this kind of tool, so consider Deep Dive as it is today to be a GPT-2 demo of things to come.

Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by stavros on Thursday October 03, 2024 @05:54PM (#41735457)
Do you have a reference for the "Juggling dog" thing? I've heard it with "singing dog", but I never managed to find any "official" reference or explanation of the thing.
Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by Jerrrrrrry on Thursday October 03, 2024 @06:19PM (#41735692)
He meant singing dog, likely conflated due to his linguistic interest.

"Juggling dog" has only been expressed a single time previously in our corpus of humanity:

  During the Middle Ages, however, church and state sometimes frowned more sternly on the juggler. "The duties of the king," said the edicts of the Sixth Council of Paris during the Middle Ages, "are to prevent theft, to punish adultery, and to refuse to maintain jongleurs."(4) What did these jugglers do to provoke the ire of churchmen? It is difficult to say with certainty, since the jongleurs were often jacks-of-all-trades. At times they were auxiliary performers who worked with troubadour poets in Europe, especially the south of France and Spain. The troubadours would write poetry, and the jongleurs would perform their verses to music. But troubadours often performed their own poetry, and jongleurs chanted street ballads they had picked up in their wanderings. Consequently, the terms "troubadour" and "jongleur" are often used interchangeably by their contemporaries.
These jongleurs might sing amorous songs or pantomime licentious actions. But they might be also jugglers, bear trainers, acrobats, sleight-of-hand artists or outright mountebanks. Historian Joseph Anglade remarks that in the high Middle Ages:

"We see the singer and strolling musician, who comes to the cabaret to perform; the mountebank-juggler, with his tricks of sleight-of-hand, who well represents the class of jongleurs for whom his name had become synonymous; and finally the acrobat, often accompanied by female dancers of easy morals, exhibiting to the gaping public the gaggle of animals he has dressed up — birds, monkeys, bears, savant dogs and counting cats — in a word, all the types found in fairs and circuses who come under the general name of jongleur.”(5) -- http://www.arthurchandler.com/symbolism-of-juggling

Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by SoftTalker on Thursday October 03, 2024 @11:09PM (#41737417)
It’s a great phrase all that aside. I’m adopting it.
Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by cryptoz on Thursday October 03, 2024 @11:47PM (#41737623)
The confetti is out of the cannon!
Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by Jerrrrrrry on Friday October 04, 2024 @01:24PM (#41743534)
"Dogs were not aware of their shared interest in juggling until the invention of the internet, where like-minded canines would eventually congregate unto enclaves of specialty."
Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by ben_w on Friday October 04, 2024 @03:57AM (#41738926)
TIL about "jongleurs".

I suspect what I heard was a deliberate modification of this sexist quote from Samuel Johnson, which I only found by this thread piquing my curiosity: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/252983-sir-a-woman-s-preach...

Trying to find where I got my version from, takes me back to my own comments on Hacker News from 8 months ago, and I couldn't remember where I got it from then either:

> "your dog is juggling, filing taxes, and baking a cake, and rather than be impressed it can do any of those things, you're complaining it drops some balls, misses some figures, and the cake recipe leaves a lot to be desired". - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39170057

My comment there predates this Mastodon thread, but the story in Mastodon may predate whoever told me the version I encountered: https://social.coop/@GuerillaOntologist/112598462146879765

Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by ben_w on Friday October 04, 2024 @04:19AM (#41739068)
Unfortunately not.

Trying to find where I got my version from just brought me back to one of my own comments on Hacker News from 8 months ago:

> "your dog is juggling, filing taxes, and baking a cake, and rather than be impressed it can do any of those things, you're complaining it drops some balls, misses some figures, and the cake recipe leaves a lot to be desired". - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39170057

I couldn't remember where I got it from then either.

Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by stavros on Friday October 04, 2024 @06:49AM (#41740074)
Oh hm, maybe you came up with it/adapted a previous saying, then. I'm not 100% sure the dog was singing either.
Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by gwern on Friday October 04, 2024 @07:35PM (#41746474)
He is adapting one of Samuel Johnson's most famous quotations, about the astonishing sight of seeing a woman preaching - like a dog walking, it may not be done well, but it's astonishing to see it done at all.
Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by theragra on Thursday October 03, 2024 @06:10PM (#41735614)
This feature is cool as fuck, but I noticed that podcasts it generates loose quite a lot of details from the original article. Even longreads turn into 13 mins chunks.
Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by rty32 on Friday October 04, 2024 @09:39AM (#41741267)
It is a cool concept, but anyone who listens to enough podcasts know that hosts have personalities and interests, and productions usually have their styles, focus and quality. These features make podcast channels unique and make you want to come back. That's why you may want to listen to podcast A instead of B even though they discuss the same topics. I doubt the Google thing will ever give us that -- likely just one hour of generic rambling that gets boring.