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Comment · 11 months ago
Before AI people would still say things like this. "The best time to plant a tree is 10 years ago. The second best time is now". Among the set of such constructs, some are overused by LLM and have become a symbolic of it, but they will still show up in human writing with the same frequency as before.
Comment · 11 months ago
I guess AI is the new catchall term for "cliched or bad writing"
Comment · 1 year ago
There is also a meta level investment in your deck that comes from curating it by hand, and that pays off in long term motivation AND improves recall.

I'm sure some people can knuckle down and learn an LLM deck with random words, but they'd be a minority.

Comment · 1 year ago
I have 15k learned. It's a question of timing. Can time spent making the card outweigh time saved learning it? I would say yes. It's easy to spend too long making a single card. A compromise is to make a small card at first and improve it whenever you fail it.

Personally I need some context in a card to hook it up to other things. Such as the sentence where I first encountered it. Without that I will often fail the card over and over and waste time - it would have been quicker to put some effort upfront making a decent card.

Comment · 1 year ago
Even if AI is down for 20% of the time it can still outcode you 100x.
Comment · 1 year ago
In Japan they are also pushing an app for vending machines, but you immediately get three free drinks (then nothing after). It got me to sign up anyway.
Comment · 1 year ago
I enjoyed the content of the video using the subtitles as delivered. It made sense and was informative. I doubt there were any egregious issues given the relative similarity of the two languages.
Comment · 1 year ago
Really good video. I don't speak German but the subtitles were fine.
Comment · 1 year ago
It used to cost money, it's now free but it's quite limited. I'm sure it'll get more expensive later, but it is great value at the moment.

Not sure how you can rug pull an open source project...

Comment · 1 year ago
Just because something is overhyped doesn't mean it can't be useful. You can literally try it for free with vscode and figure out quickly where it saves you time and where it doesn't. I made a value judgement that it saves me more than 20usd of time. If it didn't I wouldn't pay for it. Developers are not idiots motivated by fomo.

Using it for vibe coding where you pay for every token - and end up paying hundreds over dozens of iterations, when it would have been easier to write it yourself - is probably closer to what you're talking about. That's a totally different use case.

Comment · 1 year ago
Abandoned for a new project. Kuzu is Japanese for unwanted/useless scraps or garbage, so I suppose it's still living up to its name.
Comment · 1 year ago
New phone came with no standalone music player only YouTube Music. But fair play to them you can click "local files only" at first launch and it keeps out of your way.

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