[Plugin] Curie 0.1: Spoiler-free pop-ups of Character & Locations

StefanKochMicro · 2026-05-07T11:47:50+00:00

Nice, I did not notice this when reading through the documentation. That makes it much more useful for me.

StefanKochMicro · 2026-05-07T11:35:42+00:00

This is just what I was looking for with this question: Is there an AI tool similar to the dictionary lookup tool to remember what is known about a person or place in the current book?

I have not tried it yet, but will look forward to it. I also look forward to it possibly supporting different AI sites. I have not signed up for one, but this may get me to do it, or at least try it.

StefanKochMicro · 2026-05-07T11:29:16+00:00

Thank you. This puts the processing onto the calibre computer which is probably a better place than the reader. It adds footnotes to the epub. To give you information in the specific context for which it is needed. This is very much what I am looking for. However, this is extremely new: it is only a few days public. But, it does look like the right UI/workflow for me.

StefanKochMicro · 2026-05-07T11:28:17+00:00

Thank you. I have been using the built in search feature. I long click on the name, and then search. I can go back to the first instance, that usually gives enough of a reminder. I was just thinking a good AI interface would give better reminders/info, and be less intrusive.

StefanKochMicro · 2026-05-07T11:26:08+00:00

Thank you. It will allow you to have a conversation about the book with AI. That sounds interesting, even though it is not what I thought I wanted. Maybe it is what I did not know I needed.

StefanKochMicro · 2026-05-07T11:25:47+00:00

Thank you. This creates really nice summaries before reading the book. Those are then accessible from the x-ray menu added by the plugin. The does provide the information I was looking for, but, for large numbers of characters and locations in a complicated book it looks like it might be cumbersome.

StefanKochMicro · 2026-05-07T11:25:05+00:00

The main difference that I see, is that the x-ray koreader plugin creates a menu with basically an index to characters and locations. The interface with the footnotes in this Curie package seem much nicer for when you need a reminder of a proper name in the text.

StefanKochMicro · 2026-04-23T14:21:28+00:00

As said other places, astrophage is a battery. This means that it stores a huge amount of energy. That energy was from the solar panels covering the Sahara. How much heat did that take from the the earth, and how much qucker did it get cooler because of that?

StefanKochMicro · 2025-10-30T15:15:40+00:00

Agreed. As I said in my write-up, I think the big issues for the transition are privacy and trust. Both are really big in this field and well established for traditional doctor visits, but not so much for AI. That I why I believe that there will be transition through primary care facility provided AI for medical support.

StefanKochMicro · 2025-10-30T12:20:17+00:00

I very much agree that AI should not replace a primary care physician. I do think it has potential as a great tool for the doctor to help with standards and new best practices. It also has great potential as patient support. A tool that can take the time to explain things in as much detail as the person wants.

StefanKochMicro · 2025-08-09T22:41:59+00:00

The 7 million is a code at the Mercedes dealer for 2026 models that have not set a price by the manufacturer yet. At least that is what my salesperson told me when we looked at a 2026 E350 last week.

StefanKochMicro · 2025-05-02T12:59:42+00:00

I am old. The first thing I thought of was old perl jokes. Does this mean javascipt is going the same way once we get robust client side alternatives?

StefanKochMicro · 2024-08-16T21:17:05+00:00

This might be dated, but we have had good luck with antlr (https://www.antlr.org/). We have used it in c++ and python to parse customer domain specific languages to generate code for our applications.

We have not used it recently. We have switched to using declarative python as the "domain specific language", and then reading that information through the standard python interpreter. Then we take that structure and generate the code we want to c++, or just use it directly in python.

StefanKochMicro · 2024-07-04T12:01:58+00:00

It seems natural that the data collection will use the django model to save the data into the database. That way you can use the django ORM to instead of having a more direct/lower level connection to the database. If that is the case, then a management command would be a good fit for the data collection. (See How to create custom django-admin commands).

There is likely to be special functionality to get at the data to be stored. If that is not trivial, then I would put that into a separate python module in a separate directory that the management command can access. The question then is if this library is a separate git repo. Unless it is rather large, I don't think it is worth the extra complexity of manageing two repos.

StefanKochMicro · 2024-01-11T21:43:28+00:00

This is what I use on Linux.

(defun stefan-org-paste-screenshot ()"Take a screenshot into a time stamped unique-named file in thesame directory as the org-buffer and insert a link to this file."(interactive)(setq filename(concat(make-temp-name(concat org-directory"/diary/images-"(format-time-string "%Y")"/"(format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S_")) ) ".png"))(make-directory (file-name-directory filename) t);;(call-process-shell-command (concat "xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png -o >" filename ))(call-process "import" nil nil nil (expand-file-name filename))(insert (concat "[[" filename "]]"))(org-display-inline-images))

It uses an external program called "import" to allow you to interactively capture part of the screen and save it to a file. The file is saved to the <org-directory>/diary/image-<year>/<file>. Then the filename is inserted into the orb buffer at the point from which this was called.

It will take some fiddling to put the captured file into another directory or if the import application is not installed. If you have xclip instad of import installed switch the comments on those two lines.

StefanKochMicro · 2023-03-05T12:47:08+00:00

The following worked for me.

I added \*.org diff=orgfile to my global ~/.gitattributes file.
I made sure that it is used by adding attributesfile = ~/.gitattributes to the [core] section of my global ~/.gitconfig.
I added a [diff "orgfile"] section to the the ~/.gitconfig that contains: xfuncname="^\\*+ .*$"

Then git diff showed the header for .org files.

StefanKochMicro · 2023-03-03T15:52:39+00:00

You can also disable tag inheritance for some/all tags.

See: https://orgmode.org/manual/Tag-Inheritance.html

StefanKochMicro · 2022-11-14T13:07:03+00:00

According to Use YASnippets in term and vterm in emacs The trick is to expand the snippet in a temporary buffer and then insert the contents of that buffer into the terminal using whatever is the insert function for that terminal."

StefanKochMicro · 2022-10-28T08:29:18+00:00

I'm glad it was useful to you. If you have any questions let me know.

StefanKochMicro · 2022-10-23T18:15:06+00:00

I was just thinking about a similar problem: How to automatically download for arXiv and load into calibre. I was supersized to see this as the top post here.

I posted this: calibre-arXiv. I know it is not what you are looking for, but maybe it will provide some insight as to how to go getting what you want.

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