The BBC has an excellent radio programme called 'A Good Read'. It goes back nearly 30 years and there have been hundreds of episodes, each of which has several celebrities and authors recommending a book each along with the host. I often like to listen to it, but couldn't find anywhere that the books had been recommended were listed online. Because it's been around a long time, the format of the descriptions isn't consistent and at different points in time, there have been more and fewer guests. I decided to have a try and using Llama locally on my Macbook Pro M2 to try and extract the information.
- Python 3.x
- Download and install
ollama - From the command line install the Llama 3 model with
ollama pull llama3:8b-instruct-q4_0. The download is roughly 4GB so this may take some time. virtualenv env && source env/bin/activate && pip install -r requirements.txtjupyter notebook