gregdetre
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Comment · 1 year ago
Language learning app for intermediate learners who want to practice reading and listening:
- As you're reading, AI helps you with words it thinks you might not know
- Highlights etymologies & mnemonics
- Shows you words in their natural habitat, e.g. listen to example sentences
I'm trying to read a kid's version of The Odyssey in Greek and to be able to understand my partner's mum, and these are the features that I wanted.
Also, I wanted to experiment with "what would an app like this look like if we could trust AI to be very cheap/fast/correct?".
- So, for example, it's a fully generative dictionary & search, e.g. the dictionary entries/metadata/example sentences don't exist until the first person searches for them!
- You can upload any kind of content (image, audio, text), and it'll automatically transcribe, translate, annotate, etc.
Comment · 5 years ago
Hmmm, interesting. That hasn't been my personal experience.
Comment · 5 years ago
The evidence suggests that brainstorming doesn't work so well - the loudest and earliest views tend to dominate.
Instead, the recommendation seems to be to allow people to generate ideas in silence first. This is my approach, which has worked very effectively in groups of up to a dozen remotely for a variety of questions:
https://www.makingdatamistakes.com/how-to-run-an-idea-stampe...
Comment · 13 years ago
Cool! Drop me a line at greg at gregdetre dot co dot uk
Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies ch 4-6 are the best introduction to his modeling work. I can't recommend them highly enough.
Comment · 13 years ago
Building on Hofstadter's models of analogy-making to build pattern recognition algorithms that work in a more human-like way. At least, that's my hope!
My background is in computational neuroscience, but I'm doing this on my own, mostly for fun. If it sounds interesting, I'd love some company! greg at gregdetre dot co dot uk
Comment · 13 years ago
I've been using 1Password for a few years now. I'm not qualified to comment on the security aspects of it - I'm trusting them and Apple to take care of that.
But I can comment on the superb quality of the user-facing aspects - it's a pleasure to use, has great iPhone and Dropbox support, and I really like the way they communicate as a company.