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josephrmartinez commented on Ask HN: How did you become a good listener? · Posted by u/arkitaip

I got a 404 when opening your link. I had to go to https://josephrmartinez.github.io/reactionsjournal/ then click around to go to that page

josephrmartinez · 2 years ago

Eep! Thanks for pointing that out. I'll just put the list here: - Giving advice - Changing the subject - Dismissing feelings - Leading questions - Devil's advocate - Sympathy (e.g. "I know exactly what you're going through...") - Commiserating - Defensiveness - Static labeling - Sarcasm - Shutting down - Intellectualizing - One-upping - Storytelling

Not saying these are all bad all the time. Just things to maybe start noticing. See what happens when you just hold off on these types of reactions for a moment.

You don't even have to do anything. Just... chill. Be silent. Think about what the person said.

I've found this is a more actionable place to start than something like "read this book" or "take this course"

josephrmartinez commented on Ask HN: Better Way to Practice Leetcode? · Posted by u/josephrmartinez

mouse_ · 2 years ago

If you don't like gamification, the standard way is reading books and documentation, solving their practice problems, and taking notes on their solutions. Apply them to different scenarios. There is no easy way out, just gotta get cracking.

josephrmartinez · 2 years ago

Not looking for an easy way out, ha! More curious about ways to actually be more diligent with the practice so that I am actually learning and retaining the knowledge. Curious about what other people have done to take learning into their own hands. Making the problems into Anki cards seems like one approach. I appreciate the note in the other comment though that writing the problems out by hand is possibly more reflective of how you may encounter the problem in an interview setting. Getting too comfortable with my IDE could be a detriment....

josephrmartinez commented on Ask HN: How did you become a good listener? · Posted by u/arkitaip

josephrmartinez · 2 years ago

Here is something actionable you can start doing immediately: recognize when you are jumping into habitual reactions in conversation. (e.g. problem-solving, giving advice, storytelling, devil's advocate, etc). I have a list of those here under "concepts": https://josephrmartinez.github.io/reactionsjournal/

Just chill out and try not doing that for a few seconds. Not saying this is always the wrong thing to do, but if your intention is to have your friends and colleagues appreciate your listening skills I think this is the starting point. Be more present to the conversation; responding to what they are actually saying and not just habitually reacting.

josephrmartinez commented on Phosphor Icons phosphoricons.com/... · Posted by u/stefankuehnel

josephrmartinez · 2 years ago

Excellent icons and documentation. Would highly recommend even just checking out the website to see how they demo the flexibility of icon styling.

josephrmartinez commented on Language models on the command line simonwillison.net/2024/Ju... · Posted by u/rednafi

simonw · 2 years ago

This was a workshop I gave in my https://llm.datasette.io/ CLI tool.

What other CLI tools are people using to work with LLMs in the terminal?

There one comment here about https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider and Ollama is probably the most widely used CLI tool at the moment: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/README.md#quickst...

josephrmartinez · 2 years ago

A CLI tool for generating tutorials based on the work you recently committed: https://github.com/josephrmartinez/mktute

npm i mktute

You can select between local model (ollama), claude 3.5 sonnet, or gpt-4. I've been surprised to find sonnet much better in performance and price for this task.

josephrmartinez commented on Show HN: I created an app for you to be a more unpredictable romantic partner lovefuel.app... · Posted by u/Joakim_Habekost

josephrmartinez · 2 years ago

Congrats on putting this out there in the world!

Quick landing page feedback: Could you update it so that the first two screen captures are not the same content? And then pick a different second example that isn't also about leaving a note? More variation in the landing page examples would give me a better intro.

Is it possible to just call them "researchers at xyz institute" and link to their lab rather than "Scandinavian researchers"?

josephrmartinez commented on Ontario family doctor says new AI notetaking saved her job globalnews.ca/news/104635... · Posted by u/davidbarker

josephrmartinez · 2 years ago

Here is a similar open source project: https://github.com/josephrmartinez/soapscribe

Just a starting point. But if you are interested in this space, fork away and build it into something useful!

My personal take is that the current tools on the market are too expensive. The cost should go way, way down. This should stay open source. Patients should have easy access to full audio recordings and transcriptions of their medical appointments. One can dream!

josephrmartinez commented on Show HN: AskYouTube – Chrome extension, not a standalone site github.com/josephrmartine... · Posted by u/josephrmartinez

josephrmartinez · 2 years ago

There are a lot of these youtube-openai api projects, but I really don't want to open another page to interact with youtube videos. This is a Chrome extension to perform tasks on YouTube videos without leaving your current tab.

This extension simply pulls down a transcript for the video you are currently viewing and sends this to the OpenAI API with your task request.

"Generate a vegetarian version of this recipe."

"Extract the materials list for this project."

"What was the book they recommended?"

This extension does not use a speech to text model to transcribe the video or an image recognition model to actually pass along information about what took place in the video. Automatically generated YouTube transcripts are not great quality, but they tend to be totally fine for the lightweight use cases when you just have a simple question on a video with dialogue.

gpt-3.5-turbo-1106 with the 16k token context window is used by default for videos under about ten minutes. For longer videos, the gpt-4-1106-preview model with a 128k context window is automatically selected. You should be able to use this for videos of to about four hours in length, but this is highly dependent on the volume of dialogue.

Best thought of as a very simple starting point for configuring a diy extension of your own. I actually use this on a regular basis now! Its nice for just getting around ads and not suffering through long youtube videos sent by well-meaning friends. Would love to see how other people configure this to be even better. Fork away!