Broken on Firefox (v 109, on macOS Ventura) with NoScript -- keeps refreshing too fast to tell NoScript to temporarily allow scripts from some of the sources. Keeps refreshing continuously if I disable all restrictions on that tab.
I couldn't get far enough with it to even see the complete loaded UI.
Looking at the code, it looks like they are not logging into MongoDB/Realm async, they are just checking if it is done, then reloading the page if not.
const user = app.logIn(credentials);
export const client = num_users===0 ?
// wait for 1 second before reloading the page
setTimeout(() => {
window.location.reload();
}, 350) : app.currentUser.mongoClient("mongodb-atlas")
(which coincides with loads of realm users in localstorage if it continues to reload)
Thanks a lot for the feedbacks, Have been heads-down here and now its loading without any glitch. WIP on making it responsive across screens and improving ML models to understand natural language queries.
I am looking for beta testers for my newly launched book-recommendation website - bookclub.ai
I have build an AI book-recommendation website this month & have 30k books in my database right now.
Bookclub.ai has based on genres, celebrity recommendations, popular lists and series.
I have applied AI to present a visual representation of "Books More like this" in the form of mind-map feature.
One of the best features is "Book-Genie" which recommends books real time based on your mood.
I am a sole member of this project right now and in bootstrap phase. Would love for you to checkout my website and any feedbacks/collaborations are welcomed.
I'm interested in how large you think the database might grow? One of the biggest benefits I can see in a site like this is the possibility of discovering 'hidden gems' that aren't well know and thus hard to find, but of course you'll only find what's in the database.
I'm working on different product that involves processing book content, and trying to plan for the computational requirements of millions of books and it's a lot, but I'm guessing running an language model over them would be several magnitudes more demanding.
Good luck, seems like a really promising use of AI!
Initial feedback is that the UI on the webpage seems busted, or at the very least poorly-scaled. For example the "Celebrity Picks" photos are way too large and pixellated, and the "Recommended Lists" title text is hard to read against the background of Hillary Clinton's red jacket.
The UI also seems a bit too busy - hard to know where one should start the moment they land on the page. Particularly that it is recommending me a bunch of genres and celebrity picks before I've even given your model an indication of what I want. It'd be a lot more user friendly to either start with a simple explanation of "how it works" followed by a "start here" button, or simply ask the user for the last 3 books they read and then SHOW how it works by providing actual recommendations.
As someone who reads a bit (and who has a librarian partner who reads a tonne), this sort of app NEEDS integration with goodreads. We both maintain lists of what we've read, and what we want to read, on goodreads. If it was possible to just paste a link to my profile (i.e. give you the goodreads user id) and the page would say "of the books on your want to read list, you should read X next", or "why is Y on your to read-list? you wont like it", or even, "your 'want to read' list is missing Z!", I'd sign up in a heartbeat.
You could even scrape ratings from goodreads profiles to better train your model. I already rate books there (out of 5), so there is already more sentiment data there than you'd get by asking me to just list books as "like/hate".
As far as how book-genie operates, I put in "Sci-fi dogs" and it failed to recommend 'City' by Simak, but rather gave me a bunch of titles with 'Dog' in the title that aren't even sci-fi. To me this isn't really a good output, and tells me that your algorithm is quite shallow and isn't really recommending based on actual content.
Hope you keep going, as this is definitely a hole!
These are some great feedbacks and I will respond here in a couple of weeks.
Key Action items:
1. Provide a sneak-peek to product(UX)
2. Integrate with goodreads or at minimum allow someone to enter their book list
3. Allow creating list from users and recommend NextUp accordingly
4. Improve Book-Genie, Have some plans to train the ML model on Reddit data
Not sure how the first set of "recommended genres" are chosen - for example, "suspense" seems incredibly narrow, and similarly "speculative fiction" to include scifi/fantasy/horror is usually used rather than simply doing horror. Also why "autobiography" rather than "nonfiction"?
I also looked at your "genres" page. It's very weird that the lists don't match the bar at the top; are these things not generated from the same source? e.g. the bar starts with romance, fantasy; but the first categories are fantasy, magic. (also what is the difference between fantasy & magic)
Is there a way to add books you've already read & enjoyed to get similar recs? This is how Storygraph operates, and I've heard fantastic things about their recommendation engine, although tbh my TBR list is quite long enough and I honestly have no need for a product like this.
quick edit - also, the text of "Jurassic Park" seems to be in Spanish, while everything else is in English. Some i18n issue?
<<Genre Page>> Actually the "Bar" at the top is clickable and opens up set of carousels in below pane, e.g clicking on "Technology" will show carousels for "Programming","Technical" and "Computers". I plan to automate this process and personalize it based on user history.
<<Is there a way to add books you've already read & enjoyed to get similar recs?>> Yes, definite plans there and will pick it up after Book-Genie, Making the page responsive and improving search.
<<Jurassic Park>>- Yes, I need to add language detection filter.
Really thankful here and hopeful that this becomes a useful product for you in future.
Interesting, I like that clicking on Thinking, Fast and Slow recommends Barry Schwartz and Judgment under Uncertainty.
Still though, I would probably just stick with "Customers who viewed this item also viewed" on Amazon as it feels like wider recommendations are in that group than what the algorithm is recommending here.
What I really want with any recommendation system is more control with how wide or narrow the net is cast. Some genres/subjects I have completely over fished and need a really wide net. Something like Russian literature though you could just recommend me Dostoevsky because I don't know much of anything about the subject.
I asked it for "hard space sci-fi", and it gave me a book about space (not sci-fi), a book about mental illness set in the ocean (I think? It was hard to tell), Congo by Michael Crichton (not space), and one book that might have been hard space sci-fi.
Edit: I asked it again, and got: a book about space, another kind of book about space (spacetime and geometry), a sci-fi book that definitely wasn't "hard" sci-fi by my definition, and a "Cat in the Hat" book about space. Certainly amusing!
The carousel that says "Meet Ady our Book Genie" moves too fast. It scrolled before I could finish reading it. I tried scrolling back but it kept auto-scrolling before I could read about Ady
The "Hall Of Fame-Authors" widget seems slightly broken. I'm assuming that most of the novels are supposed to be hyperlinked, but for me only one book is linked, and it goes to a different book. Vonnegut links to:
Did not get any logical results for "hard science fiction" "books like A Town Called Alice" and a search on "The Lightning Conductor" (sold 2 million copies in its first edition in the US) returned books on lightning and electricity.
Latest Chrome on macos Monterrey seems to be working, but the output to a query like "I like book <the name of a book> by <full name of author>" ends up with four empty boxes within which there are yellow rectangles with the text "Book Info".
Hi, Its a naive model currently and probably not understanding full context. As I am retraining the model on Reddit data, may I suggest to go to Detail page or MindMap for recommendations.
I understand its buggy currently and I am actively working to resolve these blank results issues.
I thinks is interesting an algorithm that helps you go outside of your bubble.
Given a book I am reading suggest me another book from another category which could interested me.
Instead at the moment most of recommendation engine keeps recommending book in the same niche.
I would spend some time focusing on search fundamentals. When I search ”James Ellroy” only one of four hits is a James Ellroy book. If I can’t even find what I like, how can you recommend similar stuff?
[+] [-] cstross|3 years ago|reply
I couldn't get far enough with it to even see the complete loaded UI.
[+] [-] freilanzer|3 years ago|reply
[+] [-] bennyp101|3 years ago|reply
This https://www.mongodb.com/docs/realm/web/authenticate/ shows how to login whilst waiting for a user to be created.
Edit: @aditiyadav Hope that doesn't come across wrong, just pointing out where the problem could be :)
[+] [-] aditiyadav|3 years ago|reply
Much appreciated!
[+] [-] chx|3 years ago|reply
[+] [-] aditiyadav|3 years ago|reply
I have build an AI book-recommendation website this month & have 30k books in my database right now.
Bookclub.ai has based on genres, celebrity recommendations, popular lists and series.
I have applied AI to present a visual representation of "Books More like this" in the form of mind-map feature.
One of the best features is "Book-Genie" which recommends books real time based on your mood.
I am a sole member of this project right now and in bootstrap phase. Would love for you to checkout my website and any feedbacks/collaborations are welcomed.
Happy reading!
Link - bookclub.ai
My Email id (for feedbacks/collaborations) - [email protected]
[+] [-] roxgib|3 years ago|reply
I'm working on different product that involves processing book content, and trying to plan for the computational requirements of millions of books and it's a lot, but I'm guessing running an language model over them would be several magnitudes more demanding.
Good luck, seems like a really promising use of AI!
[+] [-] jrib|3 years ago|reply
[+] [-] probablypower|3 years ago|reply
Initial feedback is that the UI on the webpage seems busted, or at the very least poorly-scaled. For example the "Celebrity Picks" photos are way too large and pixellated, and the "Recommended Lists" title text is hard to read against the background of Hillary Clinton's red jacket.
The UI also seems a bit too busy - hard to know where one should start the moment they land on the page. Particularly that it is recommending me a bunch of genres and celebrity picks before I've even given your model an indication of what I want. It'd be a lot more user friendly to either start with a simple explanation of "how it works" followed by a "start here" button, or simply ask the user for the last 3 books they read and then SHOW how it works by providing actual recommendations.
As someone who reads a bit (and who has a librarian partner who reads a tonne), this sort of app NEEDS integration with goodreads. We both maintain lists of what we've read, and what we want to read, on goodreads. If it was possible to just paste a link to my profile (i.e. give you the goodreads user id) and the page would say "of the books on your want to read list, you should read X next", or "why is Y on your to read-list? you wont like it", or even, "your 'want to read' list is missing Z!", I'd sign up in a heartbeat.
You could even scrape ratings from goodreads profiles to better train your model. I already rate books there (out of 5), so there is already more sentiment data there than you'd get by asking me to just list books as "like/hate".
As far as how book-genie operates, I put in "Sci-fi dogs" and it failed to recommend 'City' by Simak, but rather gave me a bunch of titles with 'Dog' in the title that aren't even sci-fi. To me this isn't really a good output, and tells me that your algorithm is quite shallow and isn't really recommending based on actual content.
Hope you keep going, as this is definitely a hole!
[+] [-] cstross|3 years ago|reply
(I'm trying to get off Amazon completely. Tight Goodreads integration is therefore a nope for me.)
[+] [-] aditiyadav|3 years ago|reply
Key Action items: 1. Provide a sneak-peek to product(UX) 2. Integrate with goodreads or at minimum allow someone to enter their book list 3. Allow creating list from users and recommend NextUp accordingly 4. Improve Book-Genie, Have some plans to train the ML model on Reddit data
Really grateful here!
[+] [-] RheingoldRiver|3 years ago|reply
I also looked at your "genres" page. It's very weird that the lists don't match the bar at the top; are these things not generated from the same source? e.g. the bar starts with romance, fantasy; but the first categories are fantasy, magic. (also what is the difference between fantasy & magic)
Is there a way to add books you've already read & enjoyed to get similar recs? This is how Storygraph operates, and I've heard fantastic things about their recommendation engine, although tbh my TBR list is quite long enough and I honestly have no need for a product like this.
quick edit - also, the text of "Jurassic Park" seems to be in Spanish, while everything else is in English. Some i18n issue?
[+] [-] aditiyadav|3 years ago|reply
<<Genre Page>> Actually the "Bar" at the top is clickable and opens up set of carousels in below pane, e.g clicking on "Technology" will show carousels for "Programming","Technical" and "Computers". I plan to automate this process and personalize it based on user history.
<<Is there a way to add books you've already read & enjoyed to get similar recs?>> Yes, definite plans there and will pick it up after Book-Genie, Making the page responsive and improving search.
<<Jurassic Park>>- Yes, I need to add language detection filter.
Really thankful here and hopeful that this becomes a useful product for you in future.
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[+] [-] jbar|3 years ago|reply
Keeps continuously refreshing. Please fix.
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[+] [-] epistemer|3 years ago|reply
What I really want with any recommendation system is more control with how wide or narrow the net is cast. Some genres/subjects I have completely over fished and need a really wide net. Something like Russian literature though you could just recommend me Dostoevsky because I don't know much of anything about the subject.
[+] [-] g051051|3 years ago|reply
Edit: I asked it again, and got: a book about space, another kind of book about space (spacetime and geometry), a sci-fi book that definitely wasn't "hard" sci-fi by my definition, and a "Cat in the Hat" book about space. Certainly amusing!
[+] [-] aditiyadav|3 years ago|reply
Have touched upon approach here- https://medium.com/@19aditiyadav/how-i-built-bookclub-ai-ai-...
Thanks for your feedbacks and these queries X Results would definitely act as sniff test going forward.
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[+] [-] ZeroGravitas|3 years ago|reply
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18078737.Odds_On
[+] [-] aditiyadav|3 years ago|reply
Happy Reading!
[+] [-] gus_massa|3 years ago|reply
Is the AI used to choose the recommendations or only for the graphic?
> recommends books real time based on your mood.
How can the website detect my mood???
[+] [-] aditiyadav|3 years ago|reply
You can check out my blog, it will answer all your questions -
https://medium.com/@19aditiyadav/how-i-built-bookclub-ai-ai-...
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[+] [-] aditiyadav|3 years ago|reply
I understand its buggy currently and I am actively working to resolve these blank results issues.
[+] [-] marcopicentini|3 years ago|reply
Instead at the moment most of recommendation engine keeps recommending book in the same niche.
[+] [-] caractacus|3 years ago|reply
"intelligent fiction" - four non-fiction books.
"fiction by women" - two memoirs, two non-fiction....
So then I just tried "fiction" - guess what, four non-fiction books...
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[+] [-] Zhyl|3 years ago|reply
- Recommendations for books on crystals and healing
"Books like Name of the Wind"
- Recommends "Name of the Wind" and "Wind in the Willows"
I think this might not be right for my use case.
[+] [-] laweijfmvo|3 years ago|reply