shameless plug but that's exactly what we're building at Aide (https://aide.app), I would love to chat and see how we can potentially help if this is something you're interesting in learning more about or deploying!
would love to learn more about how you're using Freshdesk and the types of queries you're responding to! I'm building a customer support app that uses openAI's GPT3 to generate automated responses and it's been working great so far!
The holy grail [https://beepb00p.xyz/pkm-search.html#future] of this really resonated with me and fully mirrors what I've been thinking about the past few months. In my observations, it's input capture, information organization, and subsequent retrieval:
Information Capture:
Input Capture - You’re going to have all-encompassing tracking and recording of all activity, but want configurable privacy on the extent to which you want your daily conversations and observations of external things you encounter and are exposed to. Capturing input needs to be holistic and incorporate all properties of encounters and new information.
Potential sources of input:
Vision — point of view recording, see snapchat spectacles, etc as primitive examples.
Audio (voice notes and multi-party conversations) - voice calls, video, etc. and other forms of audio transmission where there is more than a single party in the interaction.
Digital interactions
You will need to keep track of web pages you visit at what times
Conversations you see on Twitter, etc.
Properties and cues must be extrapolated from the information that is captured on input, in the case of audio, transcriptions are sufficient for transcription and retrieval purposes, however since video is a visual medium, it includes significantly more properties that need to be accounted for.
The aim here is to identify sufficient data points (cues) that are subsequently represented in such a way that they are easy to search across things you have encountered but only seem to recall a certain property or cue from. This is because of the fact that human beings tend to remember things in fragments, for instance, you might remember a certain color on a page that you visited within the last 6 months and nothing else.
So long as you are capturing sufficient input and actions then you should be able to go back to any given point in time. How and where are you going to store this information? Storing everything is going to be a large amount of data. The essence of the information and context must be preserved. If you want to wind back to an arbitrary position in time with the original context intact, you want to retain as much as you can in the most efficient manner possible, so determining which data points to retain is essential. (Once the content structure has been figured out, this will be viable).
Examples of Primary Cues:
Time - humans generally keep track of things in a linear time-based fashion.
Color - invokes emotion and is memorable.
Physical Location - the efficiency of information retrieval is highly influenced by the location at which it is originally synthesized, encountered, and stored.
Keywords - the default conventional mode. Can and should be extracted from video/imagery and audio.
Imagery - search for images based on their contents and ambience.
Potential Secondary Cue — Music - see historical associated input and actions while certain music was played.
(What else?)
Meta Cues — Subjects - Automated tagging of keywords/encountered content.
Any combination of these queries is possible, but ultimately the killer feature is the ability to backtrack through time to find a certain piece of information that is made available thanks to the always-on recorded nature of your interactions with the physical and digital worlds combined.
Knowing what to store, and how, + displaying it needs to be worked on further.
http://onemodel.org, described elsewhere here and moreso at that site, tries to model arbitrary knowledge and has a vision encompassing any kind of info one wanted to be tracked (again, more at the site).
(Edit: If you have possible future interest, there is an announcements list.)
You really need to let us try it out without having to sign up. Imagine how many users that think "oh, yet another img -> html/css tool, I wonder how questionably it works" and then get discouraged by having to take a chance on something they have no idea how well/if it works.
Interesting research, in my opinion, this been long coming as the next phase in the evolution of computing and society in general. It's how tech is going change the world to the point of 24/7 always-on connectivity; once the tools, applications, and entire ecosystem is created with more consideration to the human element of the system.
We're actually applying to YC's Summer 2016 batch with a fully automated application deployment process to accommodate for developers, by shifting focus to deployment considerations that have not been eliminated.
I'm based in Saudi Arabia, and considering the deserted climate and environment, there are literally no persistent water sources (aside from a few select wells that are over-exploited by bottled water manufacturers).
I don't know what you mean by "feasible". Saudi Arabia neither has the population (28mil vs 38mil) of California nor the Farming needs (I don't have numbers on Saudi farms but i'll guess its somewhere near zero).
There are a number of desalination plants along the coast of California and a few more scheduled to be built. However they're very expensive to build and to operate and their yield isn't where it should be.
Supplying 50% of Cali's water via desalination is not at all feasible
When people talk about California's water problems they make it sound as if there isn't an easy solution, but there is. The real core of this entire issue is not the methods but more the cost, it is ultimately a conversation about saving money NOT about some finite limitation on water in real terms.
California could solve this issue with a pen stroke, it just might hurt their farmers, which is really what all the concern is about. If water doubled or more in price (which is realistic), that is expensive for farmers who need a ton of the stuff for their crops. So will supermarkets pay 30% more or will they look abroad?
I actually think even with a higher water bill, it will still be cheaper for US retailers to buy US produce. Shipping that stuff by ocean isn't exactly cheap with the price of oil. I think where it would hurt US farms is their exports to Europe in particular, Europe is in a geographical position to buy from either the east or west, both by ocean. So if US/California crops go up in cost they might just buy them from someone else.
But let us not pretend that either shipping water in from other states OR just distilling water isn't an option for California, because it is. It just might hurt farmers and make them less internationally competitive.
This is part of what is needed. Water rights in California are as old as the state and extremely convoluted. Those with the older water rights have a practically guaranteed supply and generally irrigate in remarkably wasteful ways. Breaking the old water rights and increasing the price of water would push farmers to move to Israeli style computer controlled drip irrigation rather than current methods of just spraying tons of water over the field. Gov Brown was talking about bring that technology over and pushing it hard into farming...
Feasible for human drinking but I assume not farming (citation required). Which goes along with the story of "People in cali are not going to die of thirst, but a lot of farmers might go bankrupt"
After having a look and reading your interview with marketingstartups[1], it is quite an interesting idea.
It strikes me as an evolved incarnation of Buzzfeed[2] in that the entirety of its content is user-generated, whereas this wasn't the case with Buzzfeed until recently, and even now, I believe user submissions are subject to moderation.
I don't think you should give up yet. I wouldn't. I would start by simplifying the design (sure, it looks nice, but it feels over-ornamented), defining stricter guidelines for posting (e.g. encourage "Top/Best X" type posts in lieu of general free-form lists, and figure out other ways to start driving traffic to it.
I wish you guys the very best and again, don't give up yet.
PS: Please get in touch if you'd like to talk more.
That's exactly what we're trying to make; a kind of Buzzfeed 2.0, where the "2.0" stands for improved functionality and quality of lists. That's our vision anyway.
I saw your site, looks very cool. Perhaps I could mail you our story?
Hi Josh. I'm actually working on a book that is intended to provide you with the basic principles and how to actually build applications, which is something I've personally struggled with, considering the language-centricity of the majority of tutorials out there.
It's far from done, however, email me (email in profile) and I'd be happy to send you a draft.
