stkbach

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by stkbach 11y ago
http://thegi.st It's a bit buggy still. To get a sense of it, stick to BBC articles.
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by stkbach 11y ago
+1
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by stkbach 11y ago
The real purpose of gist is to help you decide what not to read. It's a better form of skimming.
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by stkbach 11y ago
:) it's grammatically correct because @gist uses an extraction based strategy. (ie, an existing representative sentence). If you want an abstract summary (ie, a new representative sentence), best to ask a human for now.
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by stkbach 11y ago
@telephoto... goto one of the following sites: www.bbc.com/news, washingtonpost.com, huffintonpost.com, reuters.com, theglobeandmail.com On those sites, find any text article that's medium+ size in length, and submit the article (
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by stkbach 11y ago
In the distant future, but as of right now we're focused more on text and getting humans to start participating. The machine learning approaches we're using are getting better every day, and the latest deep learning techniques ar
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by stkbach 11y ago
Ya, it returns about 1/6 of the sentences in the documents as gists. For an item with 12 sentences, 2 is too few, but for something with 100 sentences, 17 is too many. We'll probably change the ratio to scale in a smarter way rat
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by stkbach 11y ago
Thanks! There is a browser plugin planned that will show you the gists of any url you navigate to, and additionally could show the gists of links on a page before you click on them...
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by stkbach 11y ago
It does automatically summarize any text heavy articles. For example: bbc.com/news thewashingtonpost.com huffingtonpost.com reuters.com cnn.com theglobeandmail.com theguardian.com en.wikipedia.org Go to any of those as a start and subm
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by stkbach 11y ago
+1 on the list!
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by stkbach 11y ago
Ya, the website shown here doesn't have privileged access to the api. So, short of some basic rate limiting, we can release the same api the website uses to the public as a start.
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by stkbach 11y ago
Yup. We'll release a chrome plugin shortly that provides the quick gist of whatever page you happen to be on, so as to avoid having to actually go to the site and submit a url. More convenient for the regular user. In addition, we&#x
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