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"Empowering Individuals: Building a Data-Driven Community"

Dec 17, 2023 - 10:15pmSummary: The speaker aspires to be part of communities that empower individuals to explore their data and bring value back to themselves. They are willing to take a job in such a space and believe it's worth doing. The goal is to build tools that make it easy for the individual to work with their data directly on a web page. They plan to move to a more reactive front end using Next.js and React, designing a feed and query system possibly using natural language. The speaker also mentions working on embedding audio and ensuring embeddings are accessible. The text discusses the process of obtaining and manipulating data and emphasizes the importance of experimentation and innovation. It uses the metaphor of building a playground to illustrate the iterative nature of the process, acknowledging that initial attempts may be imperfect but can be improved upon through learning from mistakes. The writer anticipates challenges but expresses a hope to avoid negative consequences and eventually achieve success. Finally, the text concludes with a lighthearted remark and a reference to going to sleep.

Transcript: What I just spoke about is effectively an aspiration. I was writing in my journal earlier about what communities do I want to be part of, and I guess that is one of the ones that I want to be part of. And being able to participate in that space as deeply as I can, I guess that's something that I'm very interested in at the moment, and I'm willing to push forward and potentially take a job doing that as well, because I think it's important. And I think building great tools for individuals and empowering individuals to play and explore their data and bring it back to themselves is something very much worth doing, because I think it's worth it for myself. I don't know what I am yet to discover, but I am sure I am going to discover something. And to aid in more people's discoveries, that excites me. It excites me in the same way that I'm excited to ask questions over my data, and even these things that I'm saying, it seems like with the power of the large language model and these little modules and plugins and making good ones for people by default, I just suspect that it's going to be really useful. And I could be entirely wrong, but I need to build the mini playground and try to make it happen and see what's possible from there. And I think that's kind of the guiding principle now, more or less, which is, well, start getting some of this recorded data in, see what we can switch off of OpenAI, see what models perform like what. And yeah, I mean, more or less, I think that's kind of the way. So yeah, I mean, we'll just take a run at it and kind of see how it goes. And as long as I can build tooling for myself to make it easy, you know, that's where we'll get to. But I think getting that web page up and literally just having a piece of data and some metadata in front of me and being able to work with it and being able to do some of that directly on the page, it doesn't even need to be saved to the file, being able to just work with it and manipulate it on the page, I suspect is going to be extremely useful. Again, how all of this is stored and logged and everything, I don't know yet. But I think that's more or less the direction for tomorrow is, well, really the rest of the week is just getting this onto a page and probably doing it from a third party application. I don't know yet. All I know is I'm probably going to hit the limit with BUN in terms of statically rendering things. So I want to move to a more reactive front end. And because of that, I will probably end up using Next.js and React to do that and a bunch of client components. I'll keep as much as I can on the server and keep it really simple. I'm going to keep it really, really simple and use BUN to run it, but that's going to be the goal. And yeah, just make a little tiny playground for myself. Probably a feed to begin with. I mean, we'll see. We'll see how much I can get away with. I don't know how this is going to work yet. I want to query it ideally all by natural language. So we will see what we can get out of it as a result of that. Don't know how much GPT this is going to need, or maybe I can just run something with JSON grammar and have it output me exactly what I want. But if we get there by the end of the week, that'll be a pretty satisfying end point. I think the pipeline is in good enough shape. We have pretty good audio going in. I think we need to make sure embeddings are making their way into the embedding space. But really, it's just going to be about getting the data in and then starting to play with it in one way or the other. That's going to be, yeah, I think playing with it is going to be the next step. Building. Building the playground. We have, we have the sand. Now let's build the playground. That's what needs to be done. Setting up the first set of monkey bars. And seeing how it is, it's probably going to be janky and rusty and crappy, but, you know, it'll be fun until it hurts someone. And we'll learn from that mistake and make it better. And, I guess, hopefully it doesn't hurt someone. That's the goal. Oh boy, here we go. Time to go to sleep.

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