I would like to give a hearty 👏 to the first user who tried to use today to talk about SEX (in all caps)
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Dan Diephouse
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Many irons, many fires. Willamette Valley sparkling wines. AI for learning languages.
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I hate the term prompt engineer, but I wrote up some learnings from developing over 50 prompts for and I seem to be veering dangerously into that territory
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New writeup on Squidgy Prompts: open source prompts for language learners & some learnings from developing 50+ prompts for @SquidgiesApp
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Testing GPT3 prompt inputs to make sure they handle unsafe content always just feels so dirty
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We're excited to announce Lists, a new Squidgies feature. Lists use AI to turn the phrases you want to study into exercises with translations, audio, hints in your target language, grading and explanations if you get it wrong. #langtwt #studytwt #twlz
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In a world where you can match your fertility of the soil with the productivity of rootstock (e.g. SO4 >> 104-14 >> RG in Oregon), what's the argument for forcing high density plantings? All research I have seen points to it not affecting quality.
Large language models are so cool. The latest update to allows you to dig into the nuance between words or phrases, which is super useful when you don't understand the nuance of language yet.
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Ever wanted to understand the difference between two words or phrases in a language you’re learning? Our new explorer enables you to do just that, as well as view the dictionary, translations, and related examples. #langtwt #LanguageLearning
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So changed the day of our flight, doesn’t allow online rebooking of it, AND has a phone wait time of “4-5 hours”. Good times.
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Will this work? I don't know, but if you're interested in being part of the journey AND you're learning Spanish, French, or German, send me a DM or email at dan AT netzooid.com. We'd love your eyes and feedback on where to take this.
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They like to play games in the language you're learning - which helps you learn related vocabulary, nuance in language, and practice forming complete thoughts.
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They track your level, ensuring that you always get exercises appropriate to where you're at.
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They help coach you and explain the differences in various ways of translating.
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Squidgies are digital pets that need to be fed and played with through daily interaction - exercises, which follow spaced repetition based learning. And they're kind of funny. (Translation: it's true, he also lives on wine and cheese)
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Hello #langtwt 👋. I need your help. We're building an AI powered app to help intermediate language learners become more fluent. It's called Squidgies. We're looking for our first beta users to help shape the product.
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What's more, it seems to be effective so far. Especially when paired with tutoring services like and reading/watching tv. So if you're a language learner looking to get to the next level or would like to get involved, DM me. 🙏
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I find it funny that people question the use of some of these LLMs. The improvements in quality – like with 's recent InstructGPT series – has been amazing. There's a lot more to do on the app, but this wouldn't have been possible 1-2 years ago.
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And there's of course grammar correction. We're using an external service, but have a new one based on fine-tuned T5 coming soon.
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4) feedback is critical, so we're using LLMs to generate helpful real time coaching so users can understand the nuance of the language
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3) you can also play games with them, like Taboo. If you say "It's red and octagonal" a Squidgy can guess that you're talking about a stop sign. A great way to expand vocabulary and practice speaking - and realize subtle mistakes, like I did mixing up the diff. words for student.
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2) translating sentences gets kind of boring - it's much better if you can interact with your Squidgies. And so they talk back to you in all sorts of funny ways.
(Translation: don't worry, if you lost it, it will surely appear in the next episode of Lost)
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Once you have a concept map of a language, you can start to rate concepts and sentences by difficulty, allowing you to score a user's capabilities and to find appropriate exercises easily
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(If you don't know what an embedding is, it's a point in multi-dimensional space that maps to a concept. Words get mapped to these - so the words king in different languages like rey, roi, König all get mapped to the same point in space, enabling translation/comparison/indexing)
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Squidgies uses LLMs in a number of ways. 1) it uses embeddings to create a concept map of the language. It understands not just that there are words like "fish" but terms like "big fish" in Spanish which map to the concept of "bigwigs in English. (Thanks )
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The goal of the app is to help intermediate learners become more fluent by forcing them to speak/write in the language and ensure they don't forget through daily spaced repetition.
Want an invite or know someone who does? DM me!
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And so Squidgies was born: sarcastic Tamagotchis (digital pets) for language learning
(Translation: it's true, he also lives on wine and cheese, generated by )
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For the last 1.5 yrs or so I've been going down the rabbit hole of large language models such as those from , , . My question has been - can we use these to build a personalized language learning coach? 🧵
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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Replying to @typesfast and @elonmusk
That would be a waste of money. A decent team could reverse engineer a version 1 in a month.
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Thanks for bringing Trousseau to Oregon. Looking forward to more of this and hope others follow suit
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Between the Newberg School Board, Nick Kristof's governor bid, Mary Starrett's anti-vax stance and the recall, I'm not sure Yamhill County, OR has ever been in the news as much as it as this past year. Here's a story I wrote about the county last summer:
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Turns out you can drain that MacBook M1 Max battery pretty darn fast if you try
machine learning paper explaining advanced mathematics
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The ongoing consolidation in AI is incredible. Thread: ➡️ When I started ~decade ago vision, speech, natural language, reinforcement learning, etc. were completely separate; You couldn't read papers across areas - the approaches were completely different, often not even ML based.
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Anyone out there interested in the intersection of 2nd language acquisition and machine learning? 🙋♂️ Would love to bounce some ideas around (and there may be a small prototype...). Please DM me if you're willing/interested.
I've only ever had 2 questions about , but each time I've asked on the forums the response has been quick and helpful. Super impressive software and team.
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"I led a perfectly normal life until Downton Abbey"
A glorious interview with
Dame Maggie Smith
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Slightly less dramatic version of this is what we hear about Portland from conservatives - just look at what FoxNews posts about it. They seem to think it is some kind of post apocalyptic situation 🙄 foxnews.com/category/us/po No reasoning about it
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As Stephen Miller is fabulating about “what Angela Merkel did to Germany,” I’d like to share a personal story that hammered home to me how widespread this white nationalist talking point is among conservatives, and how it’s impossible to counter it with facts or reason. twitter.com/NGrossman81/st…
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Lazy twitter: what is best way to prototype a mobile app in JS/HTML these days? (I cannot be bothered to learn Swift and all the Apple crap for something that will probably be thrown away.)
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Am curious to hear about safety here. From talking to Evan Wallace, founder of Perlage, it sounded like it early prototypes used to work like this - but when the bottle is mostly empty, you've basically created a bomb if it was to be dropped. Hence the plastic shell they have.
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Many congratulations to the ever-inventive @GregAtCoravin on the launch of Coravin Sparkling. And for making the most of the launch events, obviously x twitter.com/GregAtCoravin/…
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Still trying to figure out why it takes so long for a unit test to run in VS code and how to dependency injection (is that even a thing in pyland?)
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