Nah, you make the most progress fighting through frustrating parts.
You do need the dopamine checkpoints to stay motivated, but you really learn by banging your head against a wall for a week or a month, then you get the dopamine hit after when a skill that used to be difficult is suddenly second nature.
Skills or subjects?
Learning topics like math or history, just dive into things you may not be ready for and just take it slow, looking up things you don’t know as you encounter them.
For skills, it might help to get a teacher for more physical things, like athletics or music, so you don’t hurt yourself. For arts, unless you need a studio, just try it and follow YouTube tutorials as you go.
Independent learning will almost always be slower than a teacher, but at least you’ll make progress.
I never got a high from coding, now compiling and seeing your tests have a green [PASS] next to them is a different story.
I don’t really derive a sense of accomplishment from it, so I don’t get the dopamine hit. It’s more write a simple bash script to do X because I hate working in that syntax, or this library has terrible documentation, tell me how I’m supposed to use it.
You still need to read and understand everything it writes, but it’s easier to validate something is correct sometimes rather than figure out the correct way to do something.
Also the freaking essays it writes as comments burying the useful information in the equivalent of a recipe blog post when you really just need assumptions about input, and side effects.
Yeah, but we can still vent and post guillotine memes.
Nah, put them through the legal system and see how they last in our prison system, and not one of the white collar cushy ones. Maybe they’ll end up spending some of their money on improving our penal system then.
I read a decent number of papers. If you’re looking for something specific, and abstract isn’t enough. If you want to research something specific that’s not the core focus of the paper, you at least need to skim it.
If Hank Greene is understaffed, using AI to prefilter papers isn’t a terrible use of the technology.
He didn’t state what his actual process was. People assume that just means firing out a query and no bothering to check it, he said he uses it to summarize sources to see if they are worth reading. I don’t think that’s unreasonable if he still reads them.
Regarding using it to write scripts, I think if you use LLMs to generate something you are good at making and are picky and opinionated about, the review process very quickly makes you skeptical about the output.
Before the response, IP rights and environmental effects of LLMs are completely valid and are a valid reason for opposing them. Don’t just assume someone’s using it out of laziness instead of in an attempt to scale up their own work.
I think you can start with niches or regional groups, they then start inviting others in.
WhatsApp and Discord basically had to bootstrap themselves and did it through niches and meeting a clear market need but we’re then bought up by Facebook. There were plenty of group chat competitors and voice chat competitors.
A good product and marketing strategy can bootstrap an audience. You likely need to provide something beyond just a phone book. Even outside of Facebook there’s a million of those but getting an audience for a new product is far from impossible, tons of new games do it all the time.
Sounds like they just moved the research over to isomorphic labs, also even from the onset people quickly took the original approach and paper and made their own versions tuned for their needs.
Feels more like a research project having achieved its goals, the key players moved on, and they’re closing the Deepmind part of it as it’s not really useful anymore.
If that same income was spread out amongst people in low paying jobs, they would be spending that money on rent, food utilities, and going out. There are a lot more of them so they will each have less to save which means the money is circulating more and stimulating a larger part of the economy.