cjauvin

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by cjauvin 11d ago
I think this is due to the fact that the language game that we have collectively decided to play, with AI, is not yet mature enough. In the language game of “giving a gift”, for instance, there is a distinction between giving a gift that yo
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by cjauvin 1mo ago
LawZero, Yoshua Bengio’s startup, also proposes to automate scientific research and experimentation, from the perspective of safety, by being explicitly “non-agentic”: https://lawzero.org/en/publication/scientist-a
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What does it mean to create with AI?(cjauvin.github.io)
1 points by cjauvin 5mo ago|0 comments
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by cjauvin 5mo ago
For those interested in this type of climate data visualization apps, I have worked on this one in the past, which is actively maintained with a lot of love, and very nice: https://portraits.ouranos.ca/en
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Conveying math intuition is hard(cjauvin.github.io)
2 points by cjauvin 6mo ago|0 comments
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Does ChatGPT know what is a question?(cjauvin.github.io)
1 points by cjauvin 7mo ago|0 comments
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by cjauvin 7mo ago
Sorry for the stupid question but is Elliptic Tales your favorite or is it Summing it up?
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by cjauvin 8mo ago
For "something that is published" (which includes a comment like this) I clearly dislike it too, but for chatting / texting, I realize that I often use it more than my interlocutors, and I'm not sure why. There's a
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by cjauvin 8mo ago
Very interesting project! I cannot resist mentioning an old project of mine that was made in a very similar spirit, but way before any LLM: wrapping a classic Lone Wolf gamebook around a very crude text parser: https://projectaon
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The Sexual Paradise that never was(quillette.com)
4 points by cjauvin 9mo ago|2 comments
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Insurmountable Hans (or the era of turbocharged goalpost moving)(cjauvin.github.io)
2 points by cjauvin 9mo ago|0 comments
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Some models of reality are bolder than others(cjauvin.github.io)
24 points by cjauvin 10mo ago|18 comments
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by cjauvin 10mo ago
I asked a question about exactly this on Stack Overflow, many years ago, which I think received a nice answer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57966935/asyncio-task-vs...
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Manifesto: AI (as a term and field) should subsume CS(cjauvin.github.io)
2 points by cjauvin 10mo ago|2 comments
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We didn't get the AI failure modes that philosophy anticipated(cjauvin.github.io)
2 points by cjauvin 10mo ago|0 comments
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Proof of Prompt(cjauvin.github.io)
1 points by cjauvin 11mo ago|0 comments
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by cjauvin 1y ago
Author here: my learning objectives, in order of importance, are: (1) vocal understanding, (2) speaking, (3) reading, and (4) typing and writing (far further). As I explain, I'm mostly bypassing the problem of typing by using screensho
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Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube(cjauvin.github.io)
265 points by cjauvin 1y ago|90 comments
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by cjauvin 1y ago
Thanks for suggesting it, here you go: https://cjauvin.github.io/posts/learning-persian/
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by cjauvin 1y ago
I've been using ChatGPT to learn Persian (as a third language) for more than a year now (along with a heavy use of Anki), and it's incredibly useful and surprisingly good, for about everything: romanization, OCR from screenshots,
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by cjauvin 1y ago
Counterpoint: I actually really enjoy his style of writing, which I find clear, patient (you must appreciate visual examples and exploration though) and very often challenging and stimulating (recent examples: the posts about the bigger bra
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by cjauvin 1y ago
One of my greatest pleasure of random walking the internet is building my list of possible next books to read.. thank you for this one!
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by cjauvin 1y ago
If you consider this from the angle of Wittgenstein's "language games", you could say that the problem would be "simply" to distinguish between these two, quite different, language games, and act accordingly.
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by cjauvin 1y ago
> Emacs is a powerful tool, but it also demands a lot from its user. Eventually I got tired of dealing with the host of plugins and customizations that I needed to keep my system running the way I wanted. I'm at a point in my life w
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by cjauvin 1y ago
Great app, just tried it, works very nicely and has just the right set of things it should have, thanks!
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by cjauvin 1y ago
What I find interesting about spaced repetition is the underlying thesis that raw memorization, in certain contexts, is playing a more important role for learning than what some modern education ideas would make you assume. In mathematics o
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by cjauvin 1y ago
For language learning I find that using longer phrase fragments is better than single words.
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by cjauvin 1y ago
There's a surprising gulf between word recognition and overall sentence comprehension. I'm learning Farsi with a combination of Anki and Youtube videos and sometimes I find myself in the weird state where I recognize every word in
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by cjauvin 1y ago
For a complete solution requiring many traditional high-level components like templating, forms, etc, then yes, clearly Django. But for something looking more like a REST API, with auto-generated documentation, I would nowadays seriously co
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by cjauvin 2y ago
The context is too appropriate for me to not plug this really old project of mine: https://projectaon.org/staff/christian/gamebook.js/ which was, admittedly, a strange idea (an experimental mix between a game

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