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by donut 1202 days ago
This is so cool! Thanks for sharing.

Taxonomies are inherently limited -- I love this portion of the talk "Everything is Miscellaneous" about Melvil Dewey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3wOhXsjPYM&t=1206s

Surely some things fit equally well in more than one category.

Have you considered asking for best two or three categories, and placing the episodes in multiple locations? Or would that be too noisy?

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I found that Dewey was borderline acceptable — more categories seemed to degrade it, though admittedly I didn’t spend much time prompt tuning. I also tried tags and these weren’t reliable (not at a consistent “scale” from episode to episode).

I suspect I’ll need a more mechanical approach, long term.