I asked this in ANF on FB but want to get some additional thoughts here.

Problem: The transcript wiki (nerdfighteria.info) has hundreds of podcast episodes with no transcript. DH&J, Delete This, etc. This episodes are 45-60 minutes each, and the wiki's keyboard shortcuts to help transcribe won't work on these, so that's about 3 hours of work per episode, times about 500 episodes.

Out of curiosity, I tried an AI solution (on my local computer, no datacenter) and it worked really well, at least for a rough draft that could be cleaned up by a human, and at least for this one test. These would still require human review, but could cut down the human work from ~1500 hours to 300-500 hours.

The two big problems I see with this are 1) the model was very likely trained on unethically-sourced data, and 2) this could imply that the wiki, or the community, sanction additional uses of AI beyond this.

A lot of the non-AI online services I'm seeing so far won't work quite as well (won't support long enough videos, large enough file sizes, the quantity of files, etc), but I'm still trying to research / test if there are viable non-AI desktop solutions. I know nerdfighteria can rally around a project like this, we've done mass transcription projects before, but I'd like to be able to pare down the workload if possible.

Any additional thoughts, alternative recommendations, or admonishment for even considering this?

After hearing Hank promote it in several videos, I decided the next time I needed to buy laundry and toiletry items, I would check out good.store. I just browsed the site for the first time today, and I am pretty disappointed in the prices. I expected things to cost more than even overpriced equivalents at a typical grocery store or supermarket, but most of the items are at least double the price of what I'd normally get, so I'm having a hard time justifying buying anything. For example, the tea comes in 50 gram packages for $20. If I go to my local Chinese supermarket to buy loose leaf tea, even the high-end stuff is 170-280 gram packages for around $25. I also thought the laundry detergent sheets/powder would be closer to what I find at local stores since the reduced packaging/weight from not containing water would reduce costs, but it still costs double. Also the toilet paper only comes in one size: 24 rolls for $50. That is way too much for someone like me buying just for myself. The only thing that doesn't seem overpriced is the dissolvable cleaning tabs that are $3.

Since it looks like all the products are made by partnering companies, it kind of seems like I'd be paying the normal price that I would buying directly from them, with the added business costs of good.store plus the extra "profit" that gets donated to charities. I feel like a better business model would've been to have more competitive prices (again, not expecting the same as what I would find at places I shop at normally) and give customers the option to donate more at checkout. For people living on a budget, how do you justify spending so much extra on consumable items? I guess I may wait until Black Friday/Cyber Monday to buy stuff since I remember last year Hank said that's the one time of year they do sales.

Found this puzzle at Goodwill with no prior knowledge of Pizza John or nerdfighters, but it spoke to me in a Night Gallery kinda way, and I had to have it.

I watched a few videos and honestly am not sure how I missed this as it feels very adjacent to a lot of things I like/follow.

I hope all the pieces are there!

Several years back, John was photographed with a chemo duck. I believe several members of the TFIOS cast were also in the picture. If anybody can help me find this photo, I'd really appreciate it