April 4-20, 2025
Notebook Python Source code
Electronics learning and development are an underserved market for Generative AI. In a handful of tests, I determined that leaders in the market do not do a good job of creating valid circuits when the information is readily available on the internet. Generative AI has most of the capabilities necessary to achieve this substantial goal of generating valid circuits from description. In this code I use few-shot prompting with hand-written circuits tested by a hobbyist. The project also demonstrates the opportunity to use image understanding in the context without needing a different provider. Indeed in tests, we found it possible to get Gemini to generate a netlist based on an image.
Read more »
by Javantea
March 18, 2025
Duolingo has a lot of problems. I know this because I've spent 1232 days learning Portuguese, Spanish, and a little bit of Finnish and Klingon. I have a 1232 day streak and am in obsidian league. I'm hoping that the developers at Duolingo who are watching for negative sentiment find this post. Here's my duome if you want to see where I'm at.
Duolingo is for beginners. If you end up at day 400 in Duolingo, you might think that it is useful for intermediate and advanced speakers. This isn't true. The only argument that I have really accepted for why intermediate learners should accept Duolingo as a daily tool is that it's important to avoid losing ground in a language. By spending a few minutes you're able to avoid dramatic loss of vocabulary that often coincides with not using a language for weeks.
Read more »
June 17, 2023
A small project I'm current working on has started, so I thought I'd make a short blog about it.
Let's say that someone made a deck of flash cards for SRS. Assuming you want to use the SRS, you can load the deck and let the software do the work. But what if you don't want to use the SRS?
Read more »Skipping levels in Duolingo after you've already done the test that places you in the level it thinks you should go is quite easy. With three steps and a bit of skill in the language you're learning (or some cheating) you can increase the difficulty of Duolingo to an absurd level.
Step 1: Scroll down the tree and click "Jump Here?"
