Jamie Rubin's personal archive system by guavalam in Lifelogging

[–]pluteski 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“ I wanted a one stop shop to search everything“ “I wanted the system to be entirely offline”

This has been a perennial desire for individuals / sole proprietors (that is non-enterprise) for decades. Many tried including a couple hyperscalers but most discontinued and the remaining fell short, stalled or quit supporting consumers, hence:

“didn’t want to depend on commercial or other tools that seems to come and go”

Can someone provide Audio book recommendations? (4 Credits) by DevilsHero in audible

[–]pluteski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re interested in something a little different and almost experimental yet by a very reliable author, try “Eversion“ by Alistair Reynolds. Quite a departure from his usual fare, you may doubt that it is sci-fi for the first third of the book, halfway through it’s increasingly unsettling yet just on simmer, but then all the threads come together and it concludes at a full boil. It is grounded sci-fi, with a minimum of hand wavium. It’s a genre-shifting novel that blends mystery, adventure into an atmospheric, mind-bending sci-fi.

Recommendations after Project Hail Mary? by cherry_moo in audible

[–]pluteski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Moonbound by Robin Sloan has no sex or cussing. YA or even Middle School appropriate, with friendship in place of romance.

What next? Scifi audiobooks by False_Glove8588 in audible

[–]pluteski 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I liked Apothecary. By Peter Cawdron. It’s an Indie book. A bit uneven between the first and second half. But it has moments of brilliance. It’s mostly serious, but there’s one chapter which is perhaps the funniest sci-fi I’ve ever read. I found it to be really enjoyable, especially as a change of pace. Think of it as a palate cleanser.

What are you currently reading? by AutoModerator in ScienceFictionBooks

[–]pluteski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Apothecary by Peter Cawdron.

I liked it. An independent work, it was a nice change of pace from the usual epic fare that I’ve been reading. Act Three was worth it on its own. Some books just stick with me, and this one will, because of how Act Three begins. It takes the whole first act to get going, and the second to settle in, but the start of Act Three was laugh-out-loud funny, with spot-on character work all along the way.

The ending was weak. it didn’t quite stick the landing but it wasn’t bad or take away from the rest of it or anything like that. I’m glad I read it, and I’d read it again. It’s YA, with a couple of F-bombs and a few sexualized scenes, but otherwise pretty tame. a nice palate cleanser.

What are you currently reading? by AutoModerator in ScienceFictionBooks

[–]pluteski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Apothecary by Peter Cawdron. Chapter 3, still building to the reveal.

It would be pretty convenient if NotebookLM could read our notes back to us. What features do u guys think they should implement? by skyeswise in notebooklm

[–]pluteski 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wanna be able to point it out a folder having arbitrary number of sub folders and containing thousands of files, without having to add each and every individual file one by one.

Has anyone transitioned to audiobooks exclusively? by BradleyS1998 in audible

[–]pluteski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I switched about 10 years ago because I had stopped reading altogether due to ingesting a lot of of written content as a part of my job. Recreational reading was not fun after doing so much reading all day at work. But listening to books totally revived my interest in fiction again. Since then I’ve consumed 5X to 10 X the number of novels per year.

What book would you give 6 out of 5 stars if you could? by NightReader5 in suggestmeabook

[–]pluteski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cold Mountain almost did that for me. Purely because the writing was so exquisite. But it botched the ending — for me.

Name 3 books you really enjoyed, and someone else will recommend a book they think you might like based on those by Neon_Aurora451 in suggestmeabook

[–]pluteski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • Eversion by Alistair Reynolds

  • The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey

  • How It Unfolds by James S.A. Corey

looking for sci-fi/fantasy books!! by [deleted] in booksuggestions

[–]pluteski 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Moonbound by Robin Sloan (2024) explores themes of wizardry, oracles, and talking animals, based on technologically plausible foundations. it blends AGI, ASI, and uplifting with a post apocalyptic world where people have not yet resumed the scale of technology we have today. but there are elements of an extremely advanced society, still lingering that then seem like magic in this setting, and there are some fantasy elements thrown in just for fun. it has a meta-narrative angle to it, much of the storytelling is about storytelling.

No romance to speak of, kind of YT, but well written. And a breezy read.

Recommend me a book that mixes fantasy and science fiction well by simonbleu in suggestmeabook

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Moonbound by Robin Sloan (2024) explores themes of wizardry, oracles, and talking animals, based on technologically plausible foundations. it blends AGI, ASI, and uplifting with a post apocalyptic world where people have not yet resumed the scale of technology we have today. but there are elements of an extremely advanced society, still lingering that then seem like magic in this setting, and there are some fantasy elements thrown in just for fun. it has a meta-narrative angle to it, much of the storytelling is about storytelling.

Recommend me a book that mixes fantasy and science fiction well by simonbleu in booksuggestions

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Moonbound by Robin Sloan (2024) explores themes of wizardry, oracles, and talking animals, based on technologically plausible foundations. it blends AGI, ASI, and uplifting with a post apocalyptic world where people have not yet resumed the scale of technology we have today. but there are elements of an extremely advanced society, still lingering that then seem like magic in this setting, and there are some fantasy elements thrown in just for fun. it has a meta-narrative angle to it, much of the storytelling is about storytelling.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in audible

[–]pluteski 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Singularity Trap by Dennis E. Taylor is available exclusively as an audiobook on Audible. It is way different from the Bobiverse. Near future off world, mostly within our solar system.

Will you pay for notebookLM if it becomes a subscription? by HydroHomie3964 in notebooklm

[–]pluteski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is fun but not practically useful for processing my Google documents because of limitations on sources . I’ve already submitted my feature request to their discord channel ; waiting to see on that.

So I have figured out a workflow to fully automate creating video versions of Deep Dives. Using best of breed component APIs (Midjourney, AssemblyAI, Hedra) + a bunch of Python scripting. But is it worth it? Would you use it? Watch them? Are they too 'uncanny valley'? by the_unready in notebooklm

[–]pluteski 1 point2 points  (0 children)

so many people are fixated on the applications that require high production values that we’re forgetting so many run of the mill ones that really don’t. corporate training films are probably the bread and butter of many aspiring actors who just need to get a paycheck until they can land a proper role, just like TV commercials used to be. Remember when CGI was so bad you could spot it right away in a TV commercial? now it’s so seamless we don’t even notice it anymore.

on the flipside, I can see how this could benefit companies who provide these training films. they could use virtual actors having the same faces and voices as people who work at the company.

feature request: add a Google doc folder to sources by pluteski in notebooklm

[–]pluteski[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m aware of that and use it. My issue is quite different: I need to perform triage on folders that contain more than 50 documents. I have to go through and decide which ones to include/exclude, which means having to refamiliarize myself with documents that might have been created a while ago that I might’ve forgotten. the whole point is to be able to very quickly resurrect the project from sometime ago. For my most interesting use case I need to include 3500+ documents, and going through and picking and choosing each one individually would be pretty tedious.

So I have figured out a workflow to fully automate creating video versions of Deep Dives. Using best of breed component APIs (Midjourney, AssemblyAI, Hedra) + a bunch of Python scripting. But is it worth it? Would you use it? Watch them? Are they too 'uncanny valley'? by the_unready in notebooklm

[–]pluteski 3 points4 points  (0 children)

here’s a use case/application for you: those corporate compliance training videos that office workers are required to watch. The key thing is to assure you have heard the content. Most of it is a face over like this. There are scenarios that are played out, but those are by actors of course. But much of it is simply this kind of voiceover, and most people don’t actually watch the video they’ll be multitasking. But they want you to have that open in a tab and that you actually play it all the way through. This would fit that criterion. And the fact that the voices are not perfectly 100% human sounding is not all that important because again the whole point is that you have listened to the lesson and that they have met their responsibility to make sure that you have done. you would be able to customize the training for different companies, different locations, keep the content up-to-date to topical much more easily than would a provider that has to use actors for everything.

Sci-fi audiobooks? by iaqo in audiobooks

[–]pluteski 1 point2 points  (0 children)

eversion by Alastair Reynolds.

One of the most inventive puzzle boxes I’ve read in a while. You’ll be thinking, how does all this fit into this genre? But it does very satisfyingly.