james-revisoai

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by james-revisoai 2y ago
Haha reading your comment felt like finding someone who speaks my language. I absolutely agree that the context of spaced repetition with incremental learning and reading is key, if you are to apply it. Studying the psychology of learning,
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by james-revisoai 2y ago
Learning depends on the environment and whether it is pursued in an auto-didactic sense (Even for a job, say) or whether you are learning for an exam/part of a cohort. It's not wrong to say Curriculum does not matter. But the leve
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by james-revisoai 2y ago
Please can you tell me more about the daf-2 gene and it's role in lifespan for nematodes? Any explainers on this? How does insulin relate to it - the metabolic aspect?
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by james-revisoai 2y ago
That makes a lot of sense! I do see value there. I guess it's the context of the class, but biased to the content which LLMs at test-time are bad at understanding/marking (e.g. the items/subjects in MMLU the LLMs still fail a
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by james-revisoai 2y ago
Hi! Yes we use something similar at Revision.ai to analyze student short, long and recall-based answers. The context of their studying content is considered when providing feedback in more ways than just the "correctness" of their
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by james-revisoai 2y ago
Some of the teachers I have worked with do this; and there are some great teachers(lecturers) like Martin who teach effective studying techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlU-zDU6aQ0 Flashcards and Anki were incredi
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by james-revisoai 2y ago
I agree motivation to learn and maintaining interest is key, to effect the learning rate you mention. The enjoyment itself, although a crucifying word to use in discussions when teaching students considered the "best of the best",
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by james-revisoai 2y ago
I also recommend https://www.learningscientists.org/posters from scientists in the field, which covers additional scientifically-effective approaches that a course designer or more long term approach might take. For example
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by james-revisoai 2y ago
Yes, I have often thought if it wasn't got GPT-3, this work would have been more recognised and more powerful. However generative embeddings are still more useful for more abstract cases and do embed a different space to these similari
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by james-revisoai 2y ago
I think it is. But there are levels to learning and approaches that tech can take. Speaking as a Psychology of learning and Comp Sci graduate. For a long time we have had the capability to use student learning record data to recommend optim
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by james-revisoai 3y ago
# People they delighted or prevented from feeling frustrated? The problem is, this is rather hard to measure.
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by james-revisoai 3y ago
I own touchba.se and use it to set up meetings/calls. @Circleback team you could take it on the cheap, but I think Circleback makes a lot more sense for your company.
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Ask HN: What lessons in life do tech people learn too late?
5 points by james-revisoai 3y ago|8 comments
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by james-revisoai 3y ago
This makes some great points, and Martin Lombell has covered something very similar in a rather timeless one hour engaging lecture here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlU-zDU6aQ0 Some other diamonds I've uncovered or
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Show HN: AI quizzes for your content – organised in memorable emoji lessons(revision.ai)
4 points by james-revisoai 3y ago|1 comments
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by james-revisoai 3y ago
What's the Ed Tech startup? 50k-200k LOI* in January would be unusual for an EdTech startup given the timing of semesters and university/locality/school contract signing periods.. is there more to the story, a distribution ch
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by james-revisoai 3y ago
I'd be interested in discussing this with you - we think alike, although, having background in psychology too, I was at first sceptical of your use of terms like "Rearranging". But I like your summary and how you orient it t
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by james-revisoai 3y ago
Is this monthly revenue or total so far? Recurring? What do you costs look like?
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by james-revisoai 3y ago
I was running one of them, and entering kaggle competitions throughout 2021 and 2022 using them. Many efforts and uses of Sentence-transformers (and new PhD projects) were thrown in the trash with Instruct GPT models and ChatGPT. I mean it&
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by james-revisoai 3y ago
What features struggle to work self-hosted? It was my (perhaps outdated) experience that in fact some elements of JS (like using scraper libraries) would not work on Vercel at the time due to memory of serverless function and other limits.
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by james-revisoai 3y ago
Good points... In many ways, before LLMs, vectors were getting so exciting, Sentence Transformers and BERT embeddings felt so instrumental, so powerful... work by the txtai author (especially things like semantic walking) felt incredible an
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Ask HN: Is it ethical to "addict" students to learning?
3 points by james-revisoai 3y ago|2 comments
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by james-revisoai 3y ago
Sounds like you may be asking the wrong questions. As you may be assuming the product direction is correct and uniform for your customer base - but is it? The pricing sounds ok, I just doubt you'll get useful information if you have sm
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by james-revisoai 3y ago
I do think Googles strategy for UI is pretty strong, and avoids their products feeling outdated or changing too much to flow. However, I am particularly sad that now rather than "Inspect Element" being right next to my cursor as t
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by james-revisoai 3y ago
If you can afford to optimise for your "Recall rate" over your "Precision" as such(e.g. your current time or number of opportunities/ideas is high), then go one step further than the Mom test and what people here sa
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by james-revisoai 3y ago
I appreciate your and the other commentators scepticism, and agree for the premise of generating text. However to play devils advocate - Can't inference of single layers be quite useful sometimes for embeddings? and the larger models c
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by james-revisoai 3y ago
Not necessarily; much smaller models like T5 which in some ways introduced instructions (not RLHF yet) did have to include specific instructions for useful translation - of similar format to those you find in large scale web translation dat
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by james-revisoai 3y ago
Self-hosting Supabase is pretty hard when you consider mail set up, and all the config like setting your own domain/secrets/config without the full dashboard Supabase managed service provides, doesn't it? Aka you can't j
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by james-revisoai 3y ago
I have tutored 3 students in Math for a term or more in the UK, here's my thoughts: - Student motivation is crucial. Your first duty is not to be a cardboard tutor, to be interesting, different, to stir something. Without this nothing
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Ask HN: Why are all OCR outputs so raw?
7 points by james-revisoai 3y ago|6 comments

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