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I wonder how much this depends on the quality and consistency of the context? For example, it may be the case that a long context full of useful information relevant to the task is…

Human doctors are probabilistic systems.

I run readlang.com as one person. I started it back in 2012 and it currently makes about 14K euros / month, with expenses of about 1.5K, so it's mostly profit.

Just use a VPN to pretend you're in the US and it works.

Same, along with the Tron soundtrack from Daft Punk.

Even if you don't feel like reading the whole article, do yourself a favor and skip down to the video of the final product at the very end. It's delightful and put a big smile on m…

I've got a bunch of scripts to handle my finances, both personal investments and to help with certain parts of my company tax reporting. Among other things it uses ChatGPT to extra…

I'm under the impression that this CPU is faster AND more efficient, so if you do equivalent tasks on the M4 vs an older processor, the M4 should be less power hungry, not more. So…

I'd been using 2 external displays with my macbook pro for the past few years. The most annoying thing for me was waking the mac from sleep and getting it to detect the two of them…

Interesting point but I don't think it's that clear cut. Twitter/X seemed to increase the pace of product changes directly after laying of the majority of its employees after Elon …

A very relatable story! Are you going to write follow-up posts with more details covering the rest of the journey with more of the ups and downs of running a tiny bootstrapped star…

I've gone retro with my watch. Wearing a simple Casio to avoid getting sucked into using my phone and checking notifications each time I want to see the time. For my laptop I have …

Nice start! I love the idea of an AI assisted learning experience structured around stories. I make a tool in the same space (readlang.com). I started it before the current LLM wav…

At first glance this doesn't seem that surprising. We often use "is" in a way which isn't reversible. e.g. "A dog is an animal" -> Makes sense "An animal is a dog" -> Doesn't make …

Thanks. I did an (admittedly quick) search to confirm this but didn't find anything. Do you have a reference by any chance?

Like many, I'm using the OpenAI API in my product and I've noticed that gpt-3.5-turbo offers very good value for money relative to the other models. My main concern is that OpenAI …

GDPR obliges them to delete your data upon request. But I'm not sure how well Facebook/Meta complies with this. This post from 4 years ago doesn't sound encouraging: https://ruben.…

You can use the bookmarklet, which you can drag into Firefox's bookmarks bar from this page: https://readlang.com/webReader It works almost exactly the same as the Chrome Extension…

I agree that there can sometimes be a tradeoff between retention and learning. But having been on the inside the overwhelming impression I got was that Duolingo really does care ab…

Basically it's because I don't think Duolingo wanted the product so much as they wanted me. No-one used the term acquihire at the time but I was under no illusions that that's what…

Yeah, this is a problem. Anyone is free to share texts to the public library and there's no quality control, just an upvoting feature to try to surface the best content at the top.…

That's wonderful to hear! I hope you find it useful. If you have any feedback after using it for a while please let me know!

I'm planning to add some more languages after improving the UI. Right now the dropdowns to select languages feel unwieldy with so many options. If you want me to let you know when …

The ideal fix was to upgrade the version of Stripe checkout. At the time though I was looking for a quick solution and was scared to update the Stripe libraries for fear of acciden…