Not saying these are all bad all the time. Just things to maybe start noticing. See what happens when you just hold off on these types of reactions for a moment.

You don't even have to do anything. Just... chill. Be silent. Think about what the person said.

I've found this is a more actionable place to start than something like "read this book" or "take this course"

Just chill out and try not doing that for a few seconds. Not saying this is always the wrong thing to do, but if your intention is to have your friends and colleagues appreciate your listening skills I think this is the starting point. Be more present to the conversation; responding to what they are actually saying and not just habitually reacting.

I find the gamification of the leetcode website distracting and not helpful. The solutions space seems noisy and crowded with influencer types.

I saw a presentation recently from a developer who made Anki cards for their leetcode problems. That gave them a better way to focus on actually practicing and reviewing the problems instead of optimizing for a "daily streak" or finishing as many problems as possible.

I've started working on problems in my IDE and writing my own tests at the same time. Curious if other people have found ways to improve their leetcode practice experience.

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npm i mktute

You can select between local model (ollama), claude 3.5 sonnet, or gpt-4. I've been surprised to find sonnet much better in performance and price for this task.

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Quick landing page feedback: Could you update it so that the first two screen captures are not the same content? And then pick a different second example that isn't also about leaving a note? More variation in the landing page examples would give me a better intro.

Is it possible to just call them "researchers at xyz institute" and link to their lab rather than "Scandinavian researchers"?

Just a starting point. But if you are interested in this space, fork away and build it into something useful!

My personal take is that the current tools on the market are too expensive. The cost should go way, way down. This should stay open source. Patients should have easy access to full audio recordings and transcriptions of their medical appointments. One can dream!

This extension simply pulls down a transcript for the video you are currently viewing and sends this to the OpenAI API with your task request.

"Generate a vegetarian version of this recipe."

"Extract the materials list for this project."

"What was the book they recommended?"

This extension does not use a speech to text model to transcribe the video or an image recognition model to actually pass along information about what took place in the video. Automatically generated YouTube transcripts are not great quality, but they tend to be totally fine for the lightweight use cases when you just have a simple question on a video with dialogue.

gpt-3.5-turbo-1106 with the 16k token context window is used by default for videos under about ten minutes. For longer videos, the gpt-4-1106-preview model with a 128k context window is automatically selected. You should be able to use this for videos of to about four hours in length, but this is highly dependent on the volume of dialogue.

Best thought of as a very simple starting point for configuring a diy extension of your own. I actually use this on a regular basis now! Its nice for just getting around ads and not suffering through long youtube videos sent by well-meaning friends. Would love to see how other people configure this to be even better. Fork away!

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Seems like... there are lots of opportunities these days to clear up what open source means?

This extension allows me to "ask" the model to perform a task on the video content: - "Give me the materials list" (for a diy video) - "What was the recommended book?" (for a 2+ hour podcast where they made a reference I can't find again easily) - "Extract the recommended protocol" (for 3+ hour health videos) - "Provide a counter argument" (for when I'm getting bored...)

Big plus is that you DO NOT need to wait for the ad to play through. I can just navigate to the video and send in a query without having to watch any ads.

Youtube transcripts are pretty rough. At first, I used Whisper to create a better transcript. But my primary use is to ask something of the youtube video - I found that slinging the so-so transcript along with my task was totally fine. Really simple project: Chrome extension in just html, css, and js. FastAPI server for the openai endpoint. Server function does a quick tokenization on the transcript to determine if I need to use the gpt4 model for the 128k context window or if the gptt3.5 16k context window is okay.

Naturally, here is a short youtube demo of the extension: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1zq9NKIcbw&t=54s

Have you thought about spinning this together as a Chrome extension?

Remote: Open to remote, hybrid, or in-house

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Hello! I'm a new software developer with experience building full-stack web applications and rapid prototypes. Recently built a social network to support positive habits. Currently working on full-stack apps with AI integrations. Non-software background: I ran a successful greenhouse farm for ten years and also gave workshops on empathetic communication (to clients such as wikimedia). Entrepreneurial but also humble, productive alone and on a team, passionate person looking for entry-level position.

The point of this app was to create something to replace passive/compulsive information consumption (HakerNews, Reddit, various newsletters) with something more constructive. I'm open to any suggestions about how to improve the site, find users, or tackle this issue in another way. I think I underestimated how difficult it would be to make something that is a compelling daily practice. Simple gamification doesn't seem nearly enough.

You do not need to create an account to use the site, but creating an account lets you save and share your lists. No email address required to create an account. No analytics.

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I'm trying to develop a habit of writing ~750 words each day and then taking one of these 'drafts' each week to edit into a blog post. I've found this is a good balance.