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Beautifully put!

Have you tried with Claude? I recall seeing a tweet with impressive results.

Someone recently tweeted that we use so much software because we’re now expected to do more work than is reasonably to be expected of humans and I’d have to agree.

There’s too much information to manage and too many tasks to juggle to keep up without good tools. AI just extends the range of what a person can take on.

Here’s a site with graphs you can use to visually compare model benchmarks: https://artificialanalysis.ai

I can’t say I ever expected to see this here, but thank you for making my day!

I might try this as a filler remover for the novels I find drag on and on.

1. Obsidian. I can’t say I use it to the fullest, but I create folders and subfolders for important areas in my personal and professional life.

2. I use dictation more than pen and paper these days. I have a shortcut set up on my phones action button that pastes the transcript from my dictation into my daily note. I’ll likely move to a weekly note instead shortly.

3. I wrote about this on my website recently: https://www.jonathon.site/productivity

4. Task breakdowns limit my procrastination. I’m thinking of creating a Claude project that can take items on my to do list and break them into bite-sized subtasks.

5. Using Obsidian’s Web Clipper, Readwise Reader, MyMind and Twitter bookmarks helps me archive ideas to reflect on later. I’d say the majority of the new ideas I come across are from the web. I’m still working on the best way to keep it all organized.

I was subbing at my old high school for a few days in the fall and they assigned me to my old Spanish teacher’s class with the explicit instruction to make sure students could use their devices to refer to ChatGPT to fill in their worksheets.

I was flabbergasted.

I’d suggest getting a separate mic and headphone set because you reduce the likelihood of having to compromise on either when packaged together.

I think the Audio Technica ATH-M50x and ATR-2100 should be a a solid start and fit within your budget. I used to own both and have upgraded a few times since.

I’ve been using Kef LSX II and their KC62 Sub for the past year and I love the sound and convenience. Sonos came up as a frequent alternative, but I preferred the look and sound of the Kefs.

I only have them in one room, so I can’t comment on multi-room audio.

When I was a kid, I didn’t have an allowance, but negotiated with my parents to get $1 * Grade Level * A per report card.

Which, in retrospect wasn’t much per hour, but was a sufficient motivator to do well in the classes I didn’t care for.

When my grades started to matter for university admissions, they doubled the rate per A in grade 10 and tripled it in grades 11 and 12.

They made me save half and allowed me to spend half, which was a good lesson as it helped me pay cover a few unexpected expenses during undergrad.

I think there’s something to be said about building up a personal knowledge base and automaticity with retrieving basic information to free up your working memory for more complex problems.

I’m still grappling with what this means now that LLMs have large enough context windows to ingest books.

I’m a bit wary of positioning homework as something that has to be enjoyed. I think we need a bit of a productive struggle to learn.

I think this shifts the problem from academic integrity to the time it takes to mark the in-class, pen and paper assignments.

The sheer volume of evaluations is what makes us choose methods that help us scale our marking efforts, but I’m curious to see how this changes.

I think OCR should be able to help digitize handwritten work, at the cost of the time it takes to snap and upload pics of each copy.

I’m a teacher turned web developer building tools to help other teachers automate their menial admin tasks. I’d love to chat when you have a moment!

If you're using react, I really like Tremor: https://www.tremor.so/

This sounds very much like the internal family systems model: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Family_Systems_Mode...

Woah, do you have a picture of this setup you can share? I'm really curious!