Are you feeling dumb too?

Honestly, I’ve been feeling pretty dumb lately.

Transformers, Context, Auto-encoders, Self-attention, Latent space.

I mean, read this tweet and tell me you don’t feel dumb.

It feels like we are living through the most important time in history, and I’m too thick to follow it. Don’t get me wrong, I try. I’ll ChatGPT a term, ask follow-up questions, and *think* I understand it.

But a month goes by, and I’ve completely forgotten it. I’m not memorising that knowledge in any meaningful way. In some ways, it feels like AI has made my memory worse?

So I decided to do something about it.

I built a new tool.

Drop a PDF or a question into it and get a clean deck of spaced-repetition cards back. They can be as specific or none specific as you like. You could upload the “Attention Is All You Need” paper or ask it “How do I order a coffee in Spanish?“ and get back a small set of cards you can practice with.

You can’t trick yourself, you either click the card and know you knew the answer, or you don’t (and you can try again). Its an old solution with a modern twist.

I know this isn’t the next facebook or instagram. It’s not going to make you rich and successful. It’s not going to make a million dollars. But it might just help you and I understand something we didn’t understand yesterday.

And perhaps that’s enough.

I hope you’ll give it a try and let me know what you think.

Thank you very much friends 🙏