My contribution to the wikijam: <Schrödinger's Wik...
# share-your-work
m
My contribution to the wikijam:

Schrödinger's Wiki

A wiki with all the articles in it, each page "collapses" into existence on the first observation/visit. The generation process uses Slack messages, podcast transcripts and community-adjacent papers to produce articles grounded in FoC's ideas. It also has hypermedia features to navigate and explore the references in the same application.
i
This is some mad scientist work right here! I love the idea this suggests of a sort of wave function collapse approach to a wiki, where pages are lazily initialized as you try to load them. Also, that transcript-driven scrubbable interface to the podcast is killer. Someone in the slack tried to build a thing like that using manually-timestamped transcripts a few years ago, but it was too time-consuming to be worthwhile (and the interface was clunky). Now that AI transcription is so good, this seems like something that should be built into a real feature on the website.
k
Holy smokes! Yeah, the timestamped transcripts are amazing. Is all that also being created lazily? When can we have all this on futureofcoding.org? 🙂 This might actually get me to listen to the podcast.
m
it could be created lazily if you have enough patience 😛
each transcription takes a minute or so
k
Did you end up creating them all, or just a subset for the demo? Are they expensive to create?
m
a subset because of the api usage, I spent 12 dollars on 24 episodes of varying lengths, I guess between 0.5 and 1 dollar per episode
I have to try uploading transcoded mp3s that are smaller, I don't know if the price is per second, token or MB
$0.006 / minute (rounded to the nearest second)
would be interesting to upload audio at 1.25x and see if it transcribes the same 😄
k
This looks both impressive and useful! Something that isn't clear from the demo: is this a real Wiki in the sense of pages being editable? Meaning that the AI-generated text is merely an initial version?
m
that was the initial idea, I think it's a useful addition to the wiki idea of links opening an editor for the page if it doesn't exist, what if it pre generated the initial content for it 🙂