from Diary 2023-10-23 Is it beneficial to RAG only against BOOK if one does not have written material?
I have about 60 books worth of my own writing, I have experienced RAG for this, I have cut and scanned books, I have experienced RAG for that as well. Q: Is it beneficial for someone who has no written work to RAG only against books?
A: It’s beneficial, but I don’t think its form of usefulness is what you’re expecting.
- You don’t get the same knowledge without reading a book as you do when you read a book.
- It’s more of a painful reading than a normal reading.
- usefulness
- rhetorical afterimage in The Serendipity of Random Reading.
- syntopic reading
- Read three books in the same field and you’ll become an expert.
- These effects are beneficial
- concrete example
- Insights from inner experience are key to approaching more responsive governance
- Issuing the appropriate query yielded five relevant document fragments.
- This is a state of binge reading of 5 books in parallel, and luckily, serendipity drew “encountering related fragments”.
- If you build on this over time, you can create a network of knowledge that crosses multiple books.
- Reading a book from the beginning is usually an easy read because it is designed to flow smoothly
- In contrast, this reading ignores context and jumps to the most relevant part.
- Read back and forth from there.
- As I was writing this, I was thinking that it might be assumed that books can be read in reverse order in the first place.
- Well, but if you chop it up a little and read it, even someone who can only read from the front can probably do it…
- As I was writing this, I was thinking that it might be assumed that books can be read in reverse order in the first place.
- I thought that Reading in an era with LLM] would be different from what it had been, but one of those “different forms” is now a reality at my fingertips!
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