conradbez
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Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
Thanks for checking out
Couple tips on audio front:
1. gemini has native audio understanding so I would recommend checking out uploading there and playing with the prompt to get it's output matching what you are after
2. for audio over 1-hour I found chucking it into 45min segments made it easier for Gemini to give back reliable timestamps
3. you do need to check the LLM outputs for valid timestamps - it can go off the rails
I'll add search with the existing vector embeddings used for recommendation system and audio waves to the feature list - great idea!
Comment · 10 months ago
YouTube takes free uploaded podcasts clips and charges us outrageous premium fees to view.
The obvious alternative is to use a podcast app but I like the 10-20min clips and recommendation engine on YouTube. So I built podtoc.com to serve LLM generated podcast clips youtube-feed style.
The Tech:
- LLM Pipeline: I built a pipeline to extract meaningful clips from long-form content, specifically designed to capture one of the core insights covered in the podcast.
- Recommendation Engine: Suggests clips based on previous listening to solve the discovery problem.
- The App: A React Native (Web/iOS) app featuring a "swipe to next" UI for seamless browsing.
If this sounds like a problem you’ve faced, I’d love to hear:
1. Which podcasts would you like to see added to the library?
2. Any feedback on the UI or bugs you encounter?
3. Any questions about the pipeline or suggestions for the recommendation logic? (would love to open source after some cleanup)
Check it out: https://podtoc.com/app
Comment · 2 years ago
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Great alternative for products that don’t justify big $10k vending machines.
Comment · 2 years ago
Very nice - I've recently launched something similar that tracks calories consumed (with macros coming soon). Would love to compare notes sometime if you're keen :)
Comment · 2 years ago
I fully agree that anything to the extreme can be detrimental and therefor unsustainable and ineffective. I will say that I have seen great value in building up a rough mental model of (1) how energy dense various foods are (2) where my routines / habits are causing me to over consume energy.
I agree having a compulsion to weigh everything you eat for fear of "failing" isn't very productive. But on the other hand I think there is genuine utility in knowing roughly what percentage of your daily energy comes from your typical breakfast / lunch / drinks / dinner / snacks etc etc.
Where I feel my approach beats the typical calorie tracker is that it doesn't encourage micro-counting or even reaching a specific goal, but rather just keeps you informed. This makes it very easy to know where your energy came from and thus gives you power to increase / decrease as needed.
Definitely take your point on the other factors - but for many people, I think, it would help knowing what a maintenance day of eating looks / feels like.
The tool treats prompts as templatable code assets rather than static strings. It applies pipeline stability and data quality lessons from DE to the LLM lifecycle:
Declarative Pipelines: Build workflows by referencing outputs of previous prompts.
Granular Testing: Test prompts "segments" at the smallest level to quickly find regressions and understand system-level tradeoffs.
Scaling to Production: Manage complex meta-prompts and parallel execution paths while iterating quickly between dev and prod.
https://github.com/conradbez/prompt-build-tool
Inspired by dbt (data-build-tool).