jazz3020

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by jazz3020 2y ago
are you referring to this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35831177
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by jazz3020 2y ago
Thank you!
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by jazz3020 2y ago
Okay, that's fair. It isn't that many, but it's still 10x more than the industry leader, Blinkist, though. A good start. As a small company, we currently need to sacrifice the first reader's experience for the sake of sp
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by jazz3020 2y ago
I have mixed feelings. I generally agree—the industry tends to incentivize writers to fill a certain amount of space, much like college essays. However, there are quite a few books I've enjoyed in their entirety, discovering new insigh
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by jazz3020 2y ago
Hmm, which book was it? I can check. It is designed to complement the original work by allowing you to preview/review books before/after reading them, not to replace the need to read the original book.
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by jazz3020 2y ago
Good point! Easy fix.
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by jazz3020 2y ago
Okay, I really appreciate the feedback! Agree on the "meat in the bone," quotes, and LLM-like writing style (which is somewhat intended). On-the-fly/cache: Yeah, I agree. We're only four months old—the number of on-the-f
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by jazz3020 2y ago
I'm sorry to break this news to you, but your attitude ruins the internet/world more. Can you point out one instance of 'full of shit' content on the site?
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by jazz3020 2y ago
Yes, we try to borrow as often as possible and buy when necessary
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by jazz3020 2y ago
Thank you for your kind feedback!
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by jazz3020 2y ago
How would this ruin the internet?
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by jazz3020 2y ago
I believe the content falls under Fair Use. More details: https://docs.sobrief.com/en/articles/9905825-is-sobrief-infr...
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by jazz3020 2y ago
The most common first action people take on our site is reading a summary of a book they've already read to assess its quality themselves. I don't think they care whether it was written by OpenAI or a monkey, as long as it's
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by jazz3020 2y ago
Oh, lol. Just fixed it!
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by jazz3020 2y ago
Yeah, great point. Will add that!
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by jazz3020 2y ago
> Meaning you “generated” 73k “summaries” of which you are wholly unable to verify the content of because it would require you to have read the books and listened to/read the “summaries”. No, we generate summaries on the fly, too. W
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by jazz3020 2y ago
true
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by jazz3020 2y ago
llm: prefer not to answer tts: open ai
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by jazz3020 2y ago
we used to mention AI in the title, but we removed it. we did list it on a bunch of ai directories like future pedia which does say we use ai EDIT: just added a help article saying that we use ai
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by jazz3020 2y ago
OP here—happy to answer any questions! We’ve been working really hard since writing the first line of code 4 months ago.
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Show HN: 73,530 free book summaries in 40 languages (with paid audio)(sobrief.com)
39 points by jazz3020 2y ago|46 comments
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by jazz3020 3y ago
Ah, that must be because of the render in the background. Maybe we should turn that off.
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by jazz3020 3y ago
Oh, interesting. What browser are you using? I'm able to set to 0.
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by jazz3020 3y ago
OP here. Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, those are some pretty tough sentences (obviously not in the dataset). The tongue twister one is really interesting.
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by jazz3020 3y ago
OP here. The more you use, the cheaper it gets. But if you're not using much, there isn't any cost-saving benefits. Once you scale to ~60M characters per month, it's 50% cheaper. In other words, if you're at a stage wher
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Show HN: Super fast/cheap text-to-speech API(unrealspeech.com)
43 points by jazz3020 3y ago|21 comments
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by jazz3020 4y ago
One of the developers Eric here. Would love to get any feedback!
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Show HN: Tooltips.ai – ChatGPT as a super smart dictionary(tooltips.ai)
5 points by jazz3020 4y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What % of your Google search is, roughly, “What does X mean?”?
1 points by jazz3020 4y ago|2 comments
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by jazz3020 4y ago
What's the best way for me to reach out?

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