Show HN: Learn from 30 historical figures, open source, nonprofit, self-hosted
43 points by micstradev
by weakfish
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> AI Echo
I don't think it's fair to these very real humans to try and distill their essence from what they presented publicly. Real humans are messy and complicated.
This feels really, really disrespectful. Just because someone died a long time ago doesn't mean it's any less weird to do digital necromancy.
by zoogeny
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This is an interesting project and in some ways similar to an idea I had. My idea was actually just to aggregate primary texts (whatever public domain versions are available) for a wide range of philosophical and spiritual work and provide an easy way to include it as context in straight-forward LLM calls.
I've skimmed this announcement, your github repo and your site and it isn't clear to me, are these custom models? Are they fine-tuned from some base model? e.g. do you have 30 separate models?
by lavaman131
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This is interesting way of presenting content and I do feel like engaging educational content is a valuable thing to work on. For the historical figures, how are you handling grounding the facts/reducing hallucinations that may conflict with historical accuracy? Also do you plan on making it possible for people to add their own historical figures like a registry of sorts?
by Xotic007
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Really like this. The mission stands out the most, you've built something that's honest about being a starting point and is actually designed to send people on to the primary texts and real teachers, which is the opposite of what most apps optimize for. The per-figure factcheck showing what's verified versus recreated is a thoughtful honesty touch too. Lovely project.
by tetrisgm
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Very interesting idea. Is this an experiment or something you’re looking to grow as a business? I’m curious about how this thing will evolve.
I would totally use a version of this for Swift programming
by kuerbel
1 subcomments
I like it. Is there any chance you could add Hermann Hesse?
by heikkilevanto
1 subcomments
Interesting idea. But why audio? I can't be the only one who prefers to read text.
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