In my opinion, the coolest thing in NotebookLM is the podcast-episode-generator. Each one sounds like two people having a conversation. It's fun to listen to a podcast episode about some niche topic (e.g. nuclear isomers, or the Weyl curvature tensor) while I'm cooking or driving.
More evidence of the Smartphonification theory. Much like how all life trends towards crab, or all software towards reading mail and including a bespoke Scheme implementation, I posit that all hardware eventually becomes a smartphone.
Examples:
- the cellphone (obviously)
- my TV
- my refrigerator
- my oven
- music players
- tablet computers
- laptops (well on their way)
- cash registers->PoS sales machines
- handheld game consoles
There are times where I immediately guess it, the recent mitchell post of AI psychosis was something that I recognized (which is now at 2k upvotes)
But there are other times where I am wrong too and I even comment on threads with less upvotes because the topic is so interesting yet my comment just ends up being isolated.
It's really more like a 50/50.
Even the one post of mine which had reached the front page of Hackernews was something that I absolutely knew could reach front page but then there weren't much responses for a few days but then after a few days, I saw that it was re-uploaded (I think that Hn selects a few submissions which are interesting, I forgot how that mechanism worked) and then I reached the front page of Hackernews ;)
Either way, I think people should just make what they feel is interesting but I remember reading some article once which said a few things which this article follows:
1. I built XYZ... gets more frontpage than we built XYZ...
2. having (Open source) in the title increases the chances too
This article has both of them so its definitely interesting to see it on front page, either way its an really interesting project :-D
if you're not checking citations in the paper youre publishing AND trusting a non SOTA, hallucination prone ai model to come up with sources for it, its probably for the best of everyone that this paper isn't published.
yes there will be rare exceptions but in general i feel like this is a really good addition.
7b mistral is quite outdated. On a 12gb 4070 you can run qwen 3.5 9b q4km or qwen 3.6 35b, the latter will be a lot smarter but also a lot slower due to ram offload.
Try both in lm studio, they really are surprisingly capable
Gemma 4 26B-A4B might be interesting to try on your machine. The latest optimizations make MoE models work pretty nicely on setups like that with a decent GPU and lots of slowish RAM. I have a 16gb GPU and 64gb of 3200mhz DDR4 and get 15-20 tokens/sec out of that model with zero finagling or tweaking. I’ve been very impressed by it, even having run just about every other open weight model that would fit on my machine over the last few years.
anthropic really needs to just make a great, personalized customer support experience where you get a couple dollars worth of opus credits that has some authority and ability to help with your issue.
"it couldnt be that simple because xyz" why not? I'm yet to see any big ai company actually try this
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