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Agreed, languagetransfer is fantastic. Much better than any "AI tutor".

All my smartphones lasted 4+ years, except ironically the FP3 that only lasted 2 years. I really wanted to like it, but assembly quality was terrible, battery was falling on the floor all the time, and max volume for calls was almost unaudible, an apparently rare problem they have been unable to solve.

I hope they have improved since and wish them the best, but as sick of Apple I am, I am also too afraid to try FP again...

As Woody Allen said: ChatGPT is a meaningless autocomplete, but as far as meaningless autocompletes go, its pretty damn good.

Ask gemini to summarize. Its pretty great actually, it gives you bullet points, each with a link to its timestamp

Looks nice, but what is the value proposition? Why this versus many other distraction free editors?

Good idea, what a can of worms this seems.

Can model providers be trusted to not be paid by advertisers? Can brands effectively influence how models react to them and their competitors?

I deff imagine brands flooding the internet with llm.txt files linked to their home pages but hidden from human visitors just to boost themselves up... what is the antidote?

Can attempts to influence LLM's be detected and reported?

This is a great idea / concept!

I think you need to inject some semantic knowledge in the relations, f ex. "low vitamin d levels Is Good For chronic metabolic disease" is not very helpful.

This look a good case for adding some LLM to it.

Congrats on this work

> Learning is a lifelong task and becoming proficient in a language does not mean you will stay proficient in a language

Agreed, but most people see it anyways as a journey from point A to point B, and then it's done. Also, most people just settles for good enough, not continuously improving.

> if people see their skills improving as a result of using the app then it doing its job.

Problem being that duo tricks you into believing you are learning when you indeed are not. I feel encouraged when I understand something for first time, not when the godam owl gives me a high five because I matched a word with a picture.

> Nothing can _make_ you learn other than your own willingness to do so

Well, I am really willing to be a world class piano concertist and astronaut. Doesn't mean I'll become one. Motivation + habits set the baseline, the mimimum needed, but they are not remotely enough. Success would be pretty darn easy then.

This is actually a great question, since best-selling novels are, most of the time, not particularly good, and rely heavily on trends and established patterns; precisely what LLMs are best at.

I'd say that a best-selling novel today is at least 50% luck and 40% author pedigree + marketing.

A good novel, thou. That is an entirely different thing...

Because duolingo is designed for addiction (that's how they make money), not actual learning (learning would mean you'd stop using the thing, no good for stakeholders).

There is no sole app that makes you go from 0 to C2, but there are infinitely superior tools that actually make you learn, and not the self-complacent pretend-like-learning pastime that duo is.

For a start, almost every other app succeeds at not treating you like a toddler and not resorting to emotional manipulation.

For those who tried both: Kagi or Perplexity?

I'm considering them both, buy I'll only pay for one...

I don't see the problem. FIRE is long term game, if you are young, by the time where you would become FI this will look like just another blip.

Bretton Woods is not a 10-year advantage. US had enjoyed pretty much free money until Vietnam, point at which had to kill the gold standard to enjoy free money some more.

What an embarrassing shit show.

But that has nothing to do with being a "beacon of freedom" nor any other libertarian mantra. It has to do with corruption and exploiting legal loopholes (by means of a company suing itself, go figure), shit that also happens in the beacon of freedom, mind you.

That La Liga is a corrupt rotten organization is nothing new, we just didn't know how far they could come (and we still don't).

By that definition, the entropy of a game of chess decreases with time because as the game moves on there are less possible legal states. Did I get that right?

hey everyone, let's all abuse studio Ghibli, it's free!

wow, excellent job here!

I wished for the opposite: the most interesting content that failed to go viral...

And TSMC should accept any tax imposed without further consideration. Good luck to Nvidia, Apple, and the rest finding competitive alternatives.

For a HN post, you need to show an actual product that we can try, not just a demon or screenshot

Reading Borges is anything but easy. It requires a certain state of mind. I myself would pick Cortazar over Borges any day, buy I have appreciated some of his writings.

This is showing 0 respect for studio Ghibli. Just because Japanese copyright laws are permissive, doesn't mean you should abuse them.

Definitely we should not support the US free speech where one can say any harmful shit and lie deliberately, but can't show tits because tits are "obscene". You can keep those values, we are fine – thanks.

And definitely an allied country with a massive military — with whom you share a lot of intelligence — that turns on you out of the whim of one single crazy guy is more of a threat than a poor long term enemy country pretty much isolated from international trade. Far more.

it was https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/

I don't see the point of this. Recognizing a language is not the same as learning it, and of course subtitles (on a language you don't understand!!) distract you from even recognizing it. The process mentioned is called L1 interference. Nothing new...

that is actually a good idea!

It would be great to see something more than a sign in page :/

I have lived many years both in north and south Europe, and I can tell you that south is way, way, way healthier, with 5–15% consumption of ultra-processed products against 40-50% in the north.

About obesity: why don't look at adults, who represent largest part of population? https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

Also, mediterranean is much more than Italian