Anyone in #roamcult played with @huggingface yet.

Kinda biased but I think @wolfejosh tends to have good taste in startups
The big question I have here is - If we want to allow a user to

A) Identify related blocks in their Roam graph (maybe using something like W2V)

B) Summarize a page or chapter they have imported

C) Get 4 additional suggested movies, based on a list of movies they entered

Etc.
Can we allow them to benefit from these language models without sharing any of their notes with ANY 3rd parties?

It seems like HuggingFace has enterprise option that might help us spin up our own infrastructure.

Any local/offline first case studies

Cc @wolfejosh @huggingface
This is me acting a total noob in public, but looks like we can just straight up download the models, put them on our servers, and use them without any interaction w HuggingFace or the model creators?

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13 Mar
Idea Friction

The time between having an idea and converting it to a shareable form.

[[Key Term]] from @jordanmoore

jordanm.co.uk/2019/04/13/ide… ImageImageImage
I know this is tongue in check - but does annoy me a little when I see folks act as though writing things down is a barrier to action

Big plans, big questions require collaboration (at the very least with your past & future self)

and THAT requires getting ideas out of your head
When you are faced with a question you had no previous opinion on, and two authors who disagree on the answer - who will you believe?

The one who can “muster on the spot the larger number of well aligned and faithful allies”

ht @worrydream for the paper

dropbox.com/s/ude8vgd5yscw… Image
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10 Mar
Throwback to [[June 24th 2016]] - playing with @TheTedNelson's zzStruct demo

Would be incredible to navigate twitter threads like this
A few days later - trying to design a visual interface for a youtube filter that could express -- Videos about chemistry, favorited by accounts I follow, created by a user who is followed by 3 friends....

and you think my design was bad in 2018 :)
Two years later, starting to look almost like @RoamResearch
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9 Mar
Roam is general purpose thinking environment:

the goal is to build a tool that helps everyone express and explore thoughts better than they can in prose...

but there is a reason we put so much effort into supporting the hacker community

In this new language devs write grammar
Conan’s answer is also acceptable - and my enemies are ignorance and stasis.
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7 Mar
How @RoamResearch solves the problems that Google hasn't - ironically, my oldest recorded pitch is probably only thing out that talks about our long term vision.

Long long long long way still to go.

Good news is, we're profitable and we're hiring.
Not touched in the video - how the layer on top of the web we're building is end-user programmable, an environment for @worrydream style Explorable explanations, and written in #clojure

Many more roles open than listed here

angel.co/company/roam-r…
If you think you should work at Roam, email support@roamresearch.com with your pitch on why we should hire you now. We might not get back to you for a while, and if we do @MikejNorman might be pissed that we didn't have job spec written for the role first, but shoot your shoot.
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4 Mar
This is the deepest injustice no one talks about, and one we have a chance to actually do something about with software... without the system’s permission.

Law is the code of our social operating system, we can build better tools for understanding it, using it, and changing it.
A similar thought did cross my mind in 2013 🙂
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26 Feb
New goal - create this new Github UI, but from inside @RoamResearch
Yeah, if you wanted to build this today - you definitely already could using the {{[[roam/render]]: (codeblock-of-dashboard-code)}}

But long term goal is to build this without writing code at all.

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