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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      Summer project: “PageRank” my antilibrary to surface the top books I should actually read. For each pair of books, I will score the strength of the link using a sort of Hebbian heuristic of whether they evoke correlated unconscious intentions. Then cluster, label, rank...

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      Shit why didn’t I think of this 20y ago 🤬 I’d guess I have maybe 300 books. That’s 44850 pairwise scorings. At 10s a pair that works out to about 124 hours of tedium. Plus I’d need to enter in all my books and write a little program to present them in all possible pairs.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      Still feels like it would be a worthwhile effort. Anti libraries are neural metadata.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      Hmm. Algorithm: use previous scores of a book to auto-score other links? There’s got to be a way to simplify this.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      If there are 100 books and if book 1’s vector of 99 affinities is matched by book 2’s vector for say the first 20, could we auto-fill the rest to match? Maybe manually score x% of the books, then estimate the rest via interpolation among most similar vectors based on partials? 🤔

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      There’s a product idea here. Step 1: take pictures of bookshelf. Step 2, mturk HIIT to turn into a spreadsheet. Step 3, estimate affinity graph via full scoring of random subset and partial scoring with autocomplete of rest.

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        1. Boris Mann‏ @bmann 19 Mar 2019
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          at one time, there was an app called Shelfie http://www.shelfie.com/ 

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        2. Timo Thee Converse‏ @timconverse 19 Mar 2019
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          Oooh, this is so close to a product idea that the startup I co-founded in 2011 had for a while, before pivoting to its eventual terrible failure-death of an idea. I am interested in the roles that physical bookshelves play, and can't give mine up.

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        3. Timo Thee Converse‏ @timconverse 19 Mar 2019
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          I can't give my books up even though they only represent me up through about 2011, when I moved to Kindle. Roles that bookshelves play: 1) peacock display (look how many), 2) display of taste (look how erudite), 3) possibility of rereading, 4) physical reminder of past interests

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          I really don't think high-intensity interval training will do you much good unless you're trying to lose weight.

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