kalid

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blog: http://betterexplained.com projects: http://instacalc.com, http://contestmachine.com (YC '07 - no longer active)

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Comment · 1 year ago

Congrats Paras, really happy for you!

Comment · 3 years ago

Not a full spreadsheet, but I have a passion project that can support units:

https://instacalc.com/56734

I wanted a quick, shareable "back of the envelope" tool.

Comment · 3 years ago

Happy to help! To give some context: there was a GPT prompt which was something like "Act as a language tutor. I'll have a conversation with you, and you reply back. If I make a grammar mistake, keep the conversation going, but put the correction in a parenthetical statement."

I was using that for a bit, but typing in another language was enough friction (vs. speaking) that I didn't use it that much.

For this, audio is perfect -- all I need is the gentle reminders about what to fix, and why. GPT could probably have a parenthetical part in the official transcript too.

Anyway, hope that helps give context.

Comment · 3 years ago

I've been meaning to brush up on Spanish and the app worked great to just hop in! The best part about using GPT is being able to talk about whatever is on your mind.

I noticed the transcription APIs clean up my mistakes (which is good for the transcript) but I wonder if there is a way to show the raw and corrected transcript to help guide corrections? Either way, it's already useful as is, looking forward to using it more.

Comment · 3 years ago

You probably understand logs intuitively. Don’t worry about notation, here’s the idea: sometimes we count digits, not values.

When we say someone has a 6 figure salary, we are counting how many 0’s (10s) to takes to get there.

For memory, we say something has 32 bits and can have 2^32 possible values. It’s more graspable to talk about the “address size” vs the “number of possible values”, especially for things that grow fast (like storage).

I’d suggest starting with your intuitions and slowly translating them to math.

(Without being a shill, I wrote about real world logs here, it may help: https://betterexplained.com/articles/using-logs-in-the-real-...)

Comment · 4 years ago

Congrats on the prototype! Signed up and looking forward to checking it out once it's launched =).

Comment · 4 years ago

y(t) = bank balance

y'(t) = income

y''(t) = raises

Comment · 6 years ago

Glad the site was helpful! Helping spread the word with people it could help (educators, students, curious autodidacts) is great. There are BetterExplained books/courses you can get as quick stocking stuffers, though helping support local businesses now may be even better :).

Comment · 6 years ago

Hey Chris, thanks for the support! =)

Comment · 6 years ago

Appreciate it Paras! I remember our exchanges fondly as well :).

Comment · 6 years ago

Congrats Paras, it's great seeing far VWO has come!

Comment · 7 years ago

That's awesome to hear, thanks for helping share it :).

Comment · 7 years ago

Wow, that's awesome to hear! One of my fears is having to keep blogging continuously, but luckily math is pretty evergreen, so my intermittent writing schedule doesn't punish me too much.

Comment · 7 years ago

Thanks, one of my favorite aha! moments :).

Comment · 7 years ago

Thanks, appreciate it!