For the last few months I've been teaching myself about AI by building a web-based system that uses a database of: * The time-nuts mailing list archive with nearly 110,000 messages; and * A collection of several thousand documents that are available from HP, NIST, PTTI, and others (currently about 3.7GB of PDF files). to provide expert answers to time-nutty questions. I'm happy to say that it's ready for public testing at https://timebot.febo.com Just what is timebot? TL;DR -- It's a chat server that uses the database to augment a large language model (LLM) AI. The interface is similar to ChatGPT and other chat servers. There is also a powerful search engine that lets you search the email and document collections by content or by author, title, etc. With documents from the database as context, the LLM can give much more informed responses than its general knowledge alone would allow. You can ask questions like -- "What is the role of cavity auto-tuning in a hydrogen maser?" or -- "How does an optical comb work?" or -- "When was the quartz crystal oscillator first used for timekeeping?" and get really detailed responses. It also provides links to the source documents so you can review them for further information. Right now timebot is running on a server in my basement; it's very much experimental and I'm still poking and prodding it. I will try to keep it running 7/24 but there may be down times for updates or troubleshooting. If there is enough interest, I may move it to a cloud server once the bugs are wrung out. Please try it out and let me know how it works, or doesn't work, for you. (And if you can help me build out the document database, I'm looking for volunteers!) NOTE: to prevent abuse, you will need to use your email to create an account. It won't be harvested or used for anything other than authentication. John PS -- A fun fact is that an AI wrote all the code for this AI. Literally every module was first generated by an LLM after I told it what I wanted. There was a lot of back-and-forth interaction but very little actual code tweaking on my part. I've since learned that there is a name for this -- "Vibe Coding". Be very, very afraid.

Hello It is with great disappointment that I read about this extremely bad idea. I never gave my consent to having my messages being digested by abusive tools. Neither has any member of this list. Please remove my messages from your training database. As an alternative, remove me entirely from this mailing list because I have absolutely no intention to contribute to this slop generating bot. I am not accepting this. Actions have to be done to revert as much of it as possible. I repeat my disappointment. Dont tell me that these messages are already digested somewhere else. I also do not consent about this. I just expected members of a technical mailing list to care about consent. Sebastien On 10/04/2025 18:48, John Ackermann N8UR via time-nuts wrote: > For the last few months I've been teaching myself about AI by building > a web-based system that uses a database of: > > * The time-nuts mailing list archive with nearly 110,000 messages; and > > * A collection of several thousand documents that are available from > HP, NIST, PTTI, and others (currently about 3.7GB of PDF files). > > to provide expert answers to time-nutty questions.  I'm happy to say > that it's ready for public testing at > > https://timebot.febo.com > > Just what is timebot?  TL;DR -- It's a chat server that uses the > database to augment a large language model (LLM) AI.  The interface is > similar to ChatGPT and other chat servers. There is also a powerful > search engine that lets you search the email and document collections > by content or by author, title, etc. > > With documents from the database as context, the LLM can give much > more informed responses than its general knowledge alone would allow.  > You can ask questions like > > -- "What is the role of cavity auto-tuning in a hydrogen maser?" or > > -- "How does an optical comb work?" or > > -- "When was the quartz crystal oscillator first used for timekeeping?" > > and get really detailed responses.  It also provides links to the > source documents so you can review them for further information. > > Right now timebot is running on a server in my basement; it's very > much experimental and I'm still poking and prodding it.  I will try to > keep it running 7/24 but there may be down times for updates or > troubleshooting.  If there is enough interest, I may move it to a > cloud server once the bugs are wrung out. > > Please try it out and let me know how it works, or doesn't work, for > you. (And if you can help me build out the document database, I'm > looking for volunteers!) > > NOTE: to prevent abuse, you will need to use your email to create an > account.  It won't be harvested or used for anything other than > authentication. > > John > > PS -- A fun fact is that an AI wrote all the code for this AI. > Literally every module was first generated by an LLM after I told it > what I wanted.  There was a lot of back-and-forth interaction but very > little actual code tweaking on my part.  I've since learned that there > is a name for this -- "Vibe Coding".  Be very, very afraid. > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com > To unsubscribe send an email to time-nuts-leave@lists.febo.com