Scour - October Update
Hi friends,
In October, Scour ingested 1,042,894 new posts from 14,140 sources. I was also training for the NYC Marathon (which is why this email comes a few days into November)!
Last month was all about Interests:
📨 Interest Recommendations Everywhere
Your weekly email digest now includes a couple of topic recommendations at the end. And, if you use an RSS reader to consume your Scour feed, you’ll also find interest recommendations in that feed as well.
🔎 Interest Autocomplete
When you add a new interest on the Interests page, you’ll now see a menu of similar topics that you can click to quickly add.
🏆 Popular Interests Page
You can browse the new Popular Interests page to find other topics you might want to add.
♾️ Infinite Scrolling is Optional
Infinite scrolling is now optional. You can disable it and switch back to explicit pages on your Settings page. Thanks Tomáš Burkert for this suggestion!
🐻 Goldilocks Problem with Topic Recommendations
Earlier, Scour’s topic recommendations were a little too broad. I tried to fix that and now, as you might have noticed, they’re often too specific. I’m still working on solving this “Goldilocks problem”, so more on this to come!
🔖 Some of My Favorite Posts
Finally, here were a couple of my favorite posts that I found on Scour in October:
- Introducing RTEB: A New Standard for Retrieval Evaluation
- Everything About Transformers
- Turn off Cursor, turn on your mind
Happy Scouring! - Evan