andymatuschak
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Comment · 3 months ago
?? Depending on the study, false positive rates range from “undetectable” to 2:10000. Or are you worried about false negatives?
Comment · 3 months 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. Maybe it feels like a natural iteration of the pre-existing experience of signing one's name to an assistant's manuscript, or a press release from staff in Comms? I don't know execs who do this kind of thing, so would be grateful for any observations others might be able to share (anonymously or otherwise).
Aside: I think it would be very good for the culture if HN automatically ran Pangram on any text-centric articles. Even perhaps just those which hit the front page? I have my own browser plugin, of course, but judging by comments here, at least some seem not to notice?
Comment · 1 year 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.
Comment · 1 year 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!
Comment · 2 years 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.
Comment · 2 years 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 practice, I don't saturate this capacity most days.
Comment · 2 years 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 minute for each. Our design intent is that if you can't remember in a few seconds, you should mark it as forgotten, view the answer, and move on. The marginal benefit from exerting marginal effort to remember on your own from point is not high. But your comment suggests that it would be helpful for the interface to do something to suggest the tempo we have in mind. Thank you for sharing.
Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks for the kind words. I'm happy with the framing of this talk, and much less sure about my proposed solutions. :)
Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah, that's more or less the math. My average is 6 seconds per question, so the mix is somewhat more older material.
Comment · 2 years ago
Thank you for these very kind comments!
Comment · 3 years ago
You might enjoy Ken Kocienda's "Creative Selection", which gives his first-person account of Apple's creative process.
Comment · 3 years 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…
Comment · 3 years ago
That's very kind; thank you.
Comment · 3 years ago
It’s custom.
Working on tools that expand what people can think and do.
Past: led R&D at Khan Academy, helped build iOS at Apple.
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