Alex-Programs

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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
Interesting. I'd be interested in testimonials alongside the options for promotion/putting it in the newsletter/etc. E.g. how many people actually read that newsletter?
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
It's interesting to see the Guardian using Fahrenheit ("50 degrees hotter") here. Unless it really is an entire 50 degrees C? I suppose that's plausible. It's co-published with an American group, though, and they
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
Keep asking "Why" (LLMs are great for this!) until you're satisfied. There are other learning tips for other areas (e.g. immersion for languages), but I think that one works quite well for STEM fields. I also like to do organ
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
You might find my LLM translation research useful: https://nuenki.app/blog Your best bet is probably: - Produce the sentence with Qwen 3. I didn't test down to 8B, but its 32B variant does reasonably well (see https:&
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
The language-specific subreddits also have excellent advice.
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
That's a good idea, thanks for the suggestion. I'm thinking of writing one big blog article about everything I've found, loosely based on the talk, and I'll crosspost it there.
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
Hybrid as in a combination of different LLMs. I recommend trying the demo on the site, it should give you an idea of what it's doing. The code is also pretty short. So those numbers are from an older version of the benchmark. Coherence
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
That's a really cool idea. I'm curious, why electric motors vs a solid rocket motor? Volatility? Control over thrust? Making it safe to throw without worrying about backblast?
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
I'm not quite sure what you're asking? It is in the LLM comparison blog posts, at least the newer ones, though it tends to be on the first line.
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
I had an idea at one point that I'd record every cover letter I wrote, so that eventually I could fine tune a model to write in my style. I didn't end up sending many, but I've noticed that it's really difficult to get A
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
Hey, I happen to have run into a similar issue with my project! I've documented a lot of my research into LLM translation at https://nuenki.app/blog , and I made an open source hybrid translator that beats any individua
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
I'm working on https://nuenki.app . It's a browser extension that translates sentences at your knowledge level into the language you're learning, so you learn through immersion as you go about your day. I've b
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
Just as a tangent, I really like this blog. It probably isn't super accessible, but I really like the soft contrast and colour choices.
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
Honestly, I'm not sure I'm a particularly good person to ask about this. I've experimented with Anki for areas other than test taking and language learning, but it didn't stick. I used it for some geography stuff, and th
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
Nah, I love physics. It's just a lot! Edit: It's worth noting I had a nasty head injury that was slowing me down. Optimising my learning was a necessity, and the injury meant I spent more time studying than my peers, in more optim
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
I've tried it in a few situations (e.g. my driving license theory test) and yeah it's absolutely awful and I quickly stopped. My modus operandi is obsidian notes->flashcards->revision to keep my knowledge up. However, a lot
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
My personal approach with A levels was to strictly learn content through classes, then organise things (which teaches you a lot on its own!) and make my own flashcards. Then I used the flashcards to keep it fresh till exam season. It was cr
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
I experimented with this, actually. The default was 0.85 iirc, and I tried pushing it up over time to 0.91, but I ended up reducing it to 0.83. It isn't that many more cards, and it makes it far less laborious.
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
> What's worse for motivation than taking longer? Many things. I think HN is a bit of a bubble here, but you'll find a lot of people prefer something enjoyable but slower to something efficient and faster, even if they won&#x27
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
Yeah, and flashcards generally work better when you're reinforcing existing learning. Learning by flashcards is hellish for me.
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
Spending half an hour mind-numbingly learning words through flashcards will teach you about as much vocabulary as an hour watching educational videos, but it'll be far less fun and you'll feel like it actually took two hours. Keep
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
Good luck! I personally used Anki the whole time, so if you're currently doing your exams some of my advice might not be super useful. I did maths, physics, and computer science. I didn't use flashcards much for maths - just for t
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
That isn't terribly far off. I used Anki throughout my A levels, spending about 250 hours on it in total according to its statistics, and had something like 10k cards that I reviewed 50k times. Now, those cards weren't alone - the
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
I switched to FSRS via the extension partway through my A levels. I also used the little google collab notebook to custom fit it to my learning patterns - I'm not sure if that's in the version that was merged into the main version
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
The advice with gendered languages is to always learn the word alongside some context that includes its gender, e.g. "Der Tisch" (The masculine table) rather than merely "Tisch->Table".
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
There's an excellent heat map addon that helps with that. Some people have tried the "dopamine effect" style things (confetti when you answer a question etc), and it didn't work for me, but there are addons for it if you
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
Spaced repetition is time-optimised , but it isn't self-discipline optimised, nor motivation-optimised. If you're limited by time, it's very efficient, but it drains motivation. If you're anywhere close to being limited
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
I made a tool based on this principle! We spend hours a day browsing the web, so I made a browser extension[0] that translates sentences at your knowledge level into the language you're learning, so that you're always learning a l
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Experimentation Matters: Why Nuenki isn't using pairwise evaluations(nuenki.app)
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by Alex-Programs 1y ago
The mental and moral model used by programmers ("you own the backend; I own the frontend; if your backend returns stupid stuff to the frontend without me actively breaking into it, that's your fault") is not, as far as I can

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