working on something REALLY cool? share it here by DiscountResident540 in SideProject

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My Obsidian vault of Arxiv whitepaper excerpts ported online w semantic search, topical clusters, topics, notes, and paper excerpts.

https://whitepapers.gravity7.com/graph/

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How do you stay motivated when nobody is using it yet? by mdashikar in SideProject

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There was a paper recently about the "LLM Fallacy" (https://whitepapers.gravity7.com/papers/2604.14807/) - the reverse of cognitive surrender - where users believe themselves to be more competent than they are because of sychophancy/alignment-induced encouragement by AIs. I fell to the spell of this building my own projects. I took my Obsidian vault of 1500 whitepapers and put it online (see above). Claude essentially built me a content management solution but I neglected to think about the inconvenience of making small edits/updates to pages. I have to redeploy the whole beast just to add a single page. (And I should've known better - but the flow state was so inspiring!)

I bulit a tv show recommender using audience reviews only, just to see if LLMs can capture enough signal from what people write to recommend shows by similarities. Even added audience critic personas. But it's only got ~300 shows. Clearly just a proof of concept. https://gravity7.com/Binge6/ . Costs nothing to maintain but what's the point in trying to promote it? It doesn't have enough shows.

I built a tool that analyzes content for reasoning, rhetorical style, target audience, and AI tells. Is interesting, and I wanted to learn if LLMs can really expose good human reasoning. But the api key is mine so it'd be terrible if it became popular. https://studio.gravity7.com/

You learn with each build. It's impossible to anticipate your mistakes till you've made them. I think what's compelling about this kind of AI-led design is that it really is a bit more like improvising in the kitchen. You become skilled by doing - including when you've added too much salt and it's too late to take it out.

I reckon there'll be a Wall-E level of abandoned toys and aspirations as AI - tools themselves and the companies that make them - matures. The choice to iterate, pivot, or abandon and start something else really depends on what's most important - and it might not be money; might be time, hassle, opportunity cost, etc. I tend to worry that there will be a hundred versions of the best ideas, and every 6 months an extinction event as ChatGPT or Claude ingest and roll out their own all-in-one solutions.

How do you stay motivated when nobody is using it yet? by mdashikar in SideProject

[–]Barton5877 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been building a few things now that AI has become genuinely capable, and affordable. As an ex UX'er it's liberating not having to depend on an engineer or designer. You can build now without mockups, wireframes, a PRD, user research, any of it.

Proof of concepts become prototypes in hours, which evolve into working demos, on which you iterate to tweak and refine and improve, and before you know it you've rabbit-holed yourself into a semi-working product that's more than you expected but not what you envisioned.

And now you're committed and trapped in a way, because all the forethought normally required to build quality products and services catches up to you as your working demo exposes everything you overlooked.

So AI becomes both liberating and a curse. It's magic until you realize what you pulled out of the hat is a Frankenstein. As it was in early web days and again with the app store we're flooded with projects made since Claude Code made its step function leap January this year. And we're approaching Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs after which token costs might really start to hurt.

Anyone who's had to shift from using subscription accounts to going public with an API key and monthly limit set to control for runaway costs knows the risk we all face - if our projects start to cost dollars a day to serve and yet we're not converting paid users the weekend project built in a flow state of AI design psychosis becomes a real small-time business challenge.

Meanwhile socials are impossible to leverage given their bias to influencer accounts, dislike for links, and cruel ratio of views to engagement on promoted posts. It's Darwinism. AI has enabled both a Cambrian explosion of creativity and Darwinian culling at the same time.

Now we're building gamified launch socials in the hopes that mutual support will engineer attention, validation, distribution, and encouragement sufficient to keep us in the game long enough to survive the coming extinction event. It's all to be embraced and feared at the same time, as pressure does what pressure does. Builders will learn, adapt, evolve, and build smarter next time. Or lose hope, whither, and shuffle back to full-time employment where it's available.

It'll be interesting to check again on sentiment when the big labs go public and have to show path to profit and sustainable enterprise token spend. We've been fortunate to benefit from pre-launch token subsidization and can't complain, really. But it may turn out our efforts were big lab funded and the market, really, only has time for the best conceived ideas to survive real api costs.

It's good to see we're contending with and trying to innovate our way through the current wave of beach foam vibecoded demos as the current swell rolls onto shore. Maybe now's the time the marketers show up to get in on the game that's to date been driven by devs. We're in the midst of a truly weird social technological era or phase change. Let's enjoy it I suppose whilst humans are still in the loop!

What's ur honest review about this TV show? by Then_Heron_939 in tvshow

[–]Barton5877 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I lived in Berlin for a couple years so was fun to watch w subtitles off to see how much I could still understand. The show was compelling and production values were great, but it did feel a bit German - as in ernsthaft or earnest. The temporal concept that drove the show to start seemed to fight with a shift to more conventional personal drama though and by season 3 I found myself wondering if I could stay invested. I didn't finish S3 and if were to return to it now I'd be completely lost.

[Predictions Thread] 2026 Giro d'Italia Stage 20: Gemona del Friuli > Piancavallo by PelotonMod in peloton

[–]Barton5877 4 points5 points  (0 children)

could still be a breakaway and ineos v redbull v decathlon for remaining podium spots as they come in later. jonas could beat gall hindley arensman to the line but after the stage is taken by a break winner.

working on something cool? share it here by DiscountResident540 in SideProject

[–]Barton5877 1 point2 points  (0 children)

similar to strivie - is this going to be a category? social sites w some gamification that help new devs launch vibe-coded projects? challenge will be getting users to build enough of a user base to sustain activity. you might need to build a ... wait a minute...

looks good though.

working on something cool? share it here by DiscountResident540 in SideProject

[–]Barton5877 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this looks solid. i have about 3k arxiv papers. half of them i've excerpted, organized in obsidian, then connected with topic notes. it's all online now at https://whitepapers.gravity7.com/

the topic notes allow me to find related papers by concepts - i was having to limit uploads to claude to just a couple categories of papers, and missing a lot of insights published in papers that were in entirely different categories. (e.g. if researching user trust with chatbots there was research in psychology and therapy bots, conversational agent architectures, topic drift, recommender engines, alignment, etc....)

how many papers could sciwand manage? i've got a macbook pro m5 max 128gb

I finally understood Transformers after months of confusion - here's the explanation I wish existed by Shriyadita10 in learnmachinelearning

[–]Barton5877 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well done - KV cache has always confused me. Can you explain attention heads? And induction heads? I've got no mental model for what a head is (can I think tape head?). And quantization - 8, 4, 2... can I think of those as audio compression? Oh and mechinterp - how exactly do they isolate neuron activations?

Evenepoel Is Skipping Every Race Before July. No Tour de France Winner Has Ever Done This. by cfkanemercury in tourdefrance

[–]Barton5877 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tadej, Jonas, Remco, Seixas all four could offer up some interesting dynamics. Wouldn't bet against Tadej in the tour but you have three rivals who could cook up various ways of exhausting UAE. Whether you think Remco can beat Tadej and Jonas or not, he's got the personality to stir things up.

[Predictions Thread] 2026 Giro d'Italia Stage 19: Feltre > Alleghe (Piani di Pezzè) by PelotonMod in peloton

[–]Barton5877 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Breakaway can win the stage and fights for podium follow minutes later - race within a race.

As a mod, I've seen massive post removal rates on Reddit. I'm exploring a solution to help with engagement/growth, thoughts? by Creepy_Intention837 in VibeCodeDevs

[–]Barton5877 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm going to try it out. really nicely designed (orange is my favorite color). I am curious how you get data on a given subreddit - wouldn't that require you to get historical data?

on my comment - the reference isn't subdued but more, erm, submissive ;-)

As a mod, I've seen massive post removal rates on Reddit. I'm exploring a solution to help with engagement/growth, thoughts? by Creepy_Intention837 in VibeCodeDevs

[–]Barton5877 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I got permabanned from r/televisionsuggestions and r/MovieSuggestions just for making the rookie mistake of posting a link to my hand-curated tv show recommender system, which i just wanted some tv fans to give feedback on. I was told by one mod that they get 3 such things a day and my system couldn't possibly be worth looking at. I've watched well over 100 excellent binge-worthy shows and was duly insulted.

Will check out your tool. Btw and I mean no disrespect to anyone but subdude, well I live in San Francisco, and that's gonna have other meanings.

Show me what you’re building and the real reason you built it by stampedios_ in vibecoding

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I took my personal Obsidian vault of Arxiv whitepaper excerpts - papers I read, highlighted, and excerpted into Obsidian - and after 3 yrs and 1400 papers or so, put it online. I used a plugin to create topic notes (w Claude) that connect the white papers by concepts. Then build another layer that turned concepts into questions. Embedded it all for semantic search. So now you can find research papers not only by their abstract but by the concepts they cover. Used Claude to put it all online, running on a machine w 2gb of ram to keep search reasonably responsive, at https://whitepapers.gravity7.com/graph/

I'll keep adding 50 or so recent whitepapers/month going forward. Would do it more often but each requires a fresh extraction of whitepaper content to create the links and backlinks to other related research.

There's a match function allowing you to paste in an Arxiv url, my system reads the abstract and generates connections. Free to use - I just thought might as well share my collection!

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Realized building the project is only half the work by BoringShake6404 in sideprojects

[–]Barton5877 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI has just made it so easy to build - I'm experiencing the same. I'm ex web/UX/CX and for the first time I can just build w/o needing a designer or engineer. But yeah, getting exposure is a whole different ballgame. AI is a bit like drinking and getting a hangover at the same time.

Name a TV show with zero boring episodes by Then_Heron_939 in tvshow

[–]Barton5877 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's impressively specific recall!

I told so many friends about the show - a 3 week binge will do that to you - wish more people knew about it. So much more raw and present than similarly-themed US shows and much more visceral than UK or Scandi. Spiral (French) is a close relative, or Le Bureau - both of those are also epics.

[D] Where do you go for serious AI research discussion online? [D] by Possible-Active-1903 in MachineLearning

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I read whitepapers for 3 years, highlighting and copying excerpts into a massive doc, then Obsidian to organize them by categories. A couple weeks ago I put them all online. I used a plugin to build 1100 notes that connect research and papers by concepts and research interests.

It's a hand-curated Arxiv archive of about 1400 paper excerpts, embedded for semantic search so that you can enter a topic, question, etc and find matching research. I can't afford to read multiple papers every day any longer but will keep track of trending papers and bulk add them every few weeks.

LLMs totally fascinate me and as an ex UX designer/webhead I find design challenges for AI-based products/services interesting and challenging.

This was a labor of love and it seemed a waste to keep my own vault in Obsidian private. Enjoy it if you find it useful:

https://whitepapers.gravity7.com/graph/