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by jmccarthy 944 days ago
While walking the dog today, it talked me through some trade-offs between DBSCAN and isolation forests. Walking + verbalizing the problem is a very different and positive experience for me.

I've also used it several times on ~15-20min drives to memorize something I wanted to have available for immediate recall. I had it chunk & quiz me, and by the end of the drive I had it down pat. Fun use of drive time.
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superhuzza 944 days ago
A word of caution - I've asked ChatGPT 3.5 to generate quizzes based on books before and while most answers were right, a few were technically wrong, and some were outright fabrications (presented very confidently!)
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moffkalast 944 days ago
LLMs fabricating things? Well I never!
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slewis 944 days ago
The memorization use case is brilliant. Put your talk track for a presentation in and say “help me memorize this by quizzing me”. Thanks!
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isolli 944 days ago
For a second there, I genuinely thought you had a very smart dog!
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Sakos 944 days ago
> I had it chunk & quiz me

Can you go a bit into how this works? How do you prompt it? This is the first use of ChatGPT I've heard of that would directly benefit me.

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jmccarthy 940 days ago
On a computer, I'd paste in a corpus of some sort as a regular ChatGPT message - just because it's easier to accumulate a big string. Note with GPT4 Turbo and the recent UI upgrades, the context window is so large now that you can paste a sizable body of knowledge, possibly even as an attached file.

I'd then switch to the phone and retrieve the chat from History.

Here's an example prompt I just used to help my son prepare for a DMV written test:

``` I'm going to paste a large list of questions and answers and then switch to voice mode. Once I indicate that I'm ready, begin quizzing me on these questions. Feel free to rephrase slightly. My goal is to achieve complete retention of all of these questions through quizzing and spaced repetition. The questions are California DMV questions. I am preparing to take the written test. 1. *Q:* You may drive off of the paved roadway to pass another vehicle. *A:* Under no circumstances.

2. *Q:* You are approaching a railroad crossing with no warning devices and are unable to see 400 feet down the tracks in one direction. The speed limit is... *A:* 15 mph. ... ```

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