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by andymatuschak 3mo ago
?? Depending on the study, false positive rates range from “undetectable” to 2:10000. Or are you worried about false negatives?
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by andymatuschak 3mo ago
The prose is, of course, LLM-generated. https://www.pangram.com/history/29a71663-e6b2-4db6-87bd-b943... I'd be curious to learn more about how/why executives come to sign their names to this kind of writing.
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Memory Machines: Can LLMs create lasting flashcards from readers' highlights?(memory-machines.com)
1 points by andymatuschak 6mo ago|0 comments
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by andymatuschak 1y ago
That text was written about the Media Lab-era prototype in 2019: https://web.archive.org/web/20190102110930/https://www.media... I wonder how far they've gotten past it.
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by andymatuschak 1y ago
Fun fact: this lecture is (AFAIK) the first use of the phrase "tool of thought", which over the years became the now-familiar "tools for thought." A seminal work in more ways than one!
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by andymatuschak 2y ago
Yes, that does help a bit—elaborative processing. But it’s not something I’d consistently spend more than a few seconds per question on, generally speaking.
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by andymatuschak 2y ago
> It'd take me over 10 minutes simply to add those 40 cards. > But if he's referring only to reviewing, it's believable. Yes, referring just to reviewing. Adding takes much more than ten minutes, as you say. And so, in
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by andymatuschak 2y ago
> I did quantum country a while back and I sometimes needed more than an hour to get through all the questions in a single practice session. That's very interesting! The review sessions cap at 50 questions, so that means well over a
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by andymatuschak 2y ago
Thanks for the kind words. I'm happy with the framing of this talk, and much less sure about my proposed solutions. :)
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by andymatuschak 2y ago
Yeah, that's more or less the math. My average is 6 seconds per question, so the mix is somewhat more older material.
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by andymatuschak 3y ago
Thank you for these very kind comments!
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by andymatuschak 3y ago
You might enjoy Ken Kocienda's "Creative Selection", which gives his first-person account of Apple's creative process.
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by andymatuschak 3y ago
Sorry. I built it in a weekend several years ago and haven't touched it since. Someday I'll give it some more attention…
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by andymatuschak 3y ago
That's very kind; thank you.
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by andymatuschak 3y ago
It’s custom.
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by andymatuschak 3y ago
Thanks for the kind note. Lots of problems, but my central criticism would be: this is an interface which modally interrupts the user and requests a blocking operation, exactly when the user has indicated intent to perform a task in the app
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by andymatuschak 3y ago
I have to say—it's a bit unsettling to me! I released it in 2006; I was a teenager. Obviously, it's evolved since then, and others have taken responsibility for it, but the interface is still the same. I regret that: I didn't
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Introducing Speculative Technologies(spec.tech)
3 points by andymatuschak 4y ago|0 comments
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How it feels to have your mind hacked by an AI(lesswrong.com)
3 points by andymatuschak 4y ago|0 comments
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by andymatuschak 5y ago
It's an interesting pattern with academic HCI work like this. For instance, Shneiderman (who did legitimately innovative design work!) often claims not only Hyperties's hyperlink styling as an academia -> industry success story
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The Silicon Valley-backed effort to reimagine how the world funds science(endpts.com)
2 points by andymatuschak 5y ago|0 comments
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Why I Am Building Arcadia(medium.com)
1 points by andymatuschak 5y ago|0 comments
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Supine Computing (2019)(mgsloan.com)
92 points by andymatuschak 5y ago|49 comments
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by andymatuschak 5y ago
These are very interesting ideas. But I’d like to see to see credit given where it’s due. Many of the specific interface concepts here (retrospectively monitoring whether time was well spent, disabling infinite feeds, a regret tax, batching
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Miami, New York, San Francisco: What Makes a Tech Hub Prevail(bloomberg.com)
1 points by andymatuschak 5y ago|0 comments
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Shifting the impossible to the inevitable: A Private ARPA user manual(benjaminreinhardt.com)
56 points by andymatuschak 5y ago|13 comments
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by andymatuschak 5y ago
(Orbit author here) Wozniak is the pioneer, and like all in this space, we're heavily inspired by his work. Orbit is a vehicle for exploring some different ideas in this space. For instance, we're looking at how spaced repetition
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by andymatuschak 5y ago
Hi, all. Author of the project here. Sorry to have caused some confusion: this is part of a research project, and it's not yet meant to be terribly legible to a public audience. In the near-term, this project is about augmenting writte
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by andymatuschak 6y ago
This is quite striking. Thank you for sharing.
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by andymatuschak 6y ago
(author of parent article here) This is very interesting! Can you say more about the task you perform when you see these prompts? How do you decide how to "grade" your response? Presumably it's not just whether or not you can

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