I installed mark to investigate turning lots (a couple of hundred) of local PDFs into study guides and/or summaries. All of the PDF links bombed, mostly due to UTF-8 decode errors - which is fine. I pdftotext'd a few and ran into RateLimit Errors.
You’ve got to have a local core of people to bounce ideas off each other.
I moved from Austin to Appalachia to care for parents. The lack of any entrepreneurial spark here is just jarring. People just keep their heads down. They want better - but there’s zero intellectual infrastructure.
My experience having grown up in the WV portion of Appalachia is that there used to be a number of highly localized small businesses, but ability to scale was highly restricted.
Back in the 90s my father ran a little greenhouse that he sold plants out of for example which brought in a little bit of extra income for the family, but wasn’t able to scale it up due to lack of access to the capital required to do so, and money didn’t exactly grow on trees out there even 30 years ago (when financially things were much better there than they are now). Even if he had been able to scale, I’m not sure how long it could’ve lasted. Bigger greenhouses in the area ended up being run out of business when Walmart came in and started selling plants for prices that no small business could compete with.
These days that part of the state is a ghost of what it was back then. So many businesses have closed down or moved out, small/startup or otherwise.
I think that's partly a generational thing. The younger generations tend to be willing to spend more to ensure a "clean" supply chain--where clean means things like no slavery, family owned business, etc. The older generation tends to do what you're talking about. This is true in my family, but I've also read studies somewhere that illustrate that this is a pretty strong correlation between generations.
Appalachia’s a big place I guess, but the thing I found most remarkable in the North Carolina portion of it was that damn near every rural-road mountain driveway seemed to have a sign marking that the house was also home to a small business.
It seems to me that liquidity in a semi futures marketplace would be much better if you traded on a lowest common denominator - cents per square millimeter of a finished wafer. Same units of value regardless of underlying technology. Am I wrong?
I’ve used ChatGPT to create related concept lists. I haven’t settled on prompting strategy for the Pocket corpus (yet). The OAI recipe looks interesting, TY!
And you’re right - I was using abbreviations, parent/child nomenclature, etc to hack Pocket’s tag structure. Yuck.
I would say 10k/1k+ is too much for pocket. I prefer bookmark managers that have a dual folder/tag system. I try to take advantage of this duality in my taxonomy choices: hierarchical folders are at the base, with tags as more "lateral" descriptors.
