Congrats Paras, really happy for you!

Not a full spreadsheet, but I have a passion project that can support units:

https://instacalc.com/56734

I wanted a quick, shareable "back of the envelope" tool.

I've been meaning to brush up on Spanish and the app worked great to just hop in! The best part about using GPT is being able to talk about whatever is on your mind.

I noticed the transcription APIs clean up my mistakes (which is good for the transcript) but I wonder if there is a way to show the raw and corrected transcript to help guide corrections? Either way, it's already useful as is, looking forward to using it more.

Thanks for the comment and glad it's useful! Agreed - I love the flexibility to talk to it like it's almost just another human, but with vast knowledge. Okay - that makes sense - I can look into adding some more of the raw transcript. Thanks for the feedback.

Happy to help! To give some context: there was a GPT prompt which was something like "Act as a language tutor. I'll have a conversation with you, and you reply back. If I make a grammar mistake, keep the conversation going, but put the correction in a parenthetical statement."

I was using that for a bit, but typing in another language was enough friction (vs. speaking) that I didn't use it that much.

For this, audio is perfect -- all I need is the gentle reminders about what to fix, and why. GPT could probably have a parenthetical part in the official transcript too.

Anyway, hope that helps give context.

Agreed. There's a huge chasm between being able to read/write and being able to speak. Speaking is just more fun as well imo. I'll have a think about ways that it could provide some qualitative feedback. Thanks again

I'll second wishing I could see the raw transcript vs the cleaned up version (perhaps vertically over one another in different colors?), and also how fantastically magical it is at allowing me to come right in and converse naturally.

Great job!

You could do something two pass and collect forced alignment confidence scores similar to what is fine with whisperx. The OP would need to incorporate that into the app but it’s a pretty standard approach.

Thanks - I'll look into this

You probably understand logs intuitively. Don’t worry about notation, here’s the idea: sometimes we count digits, not values.

When we say someone has a 6 figure salary, we are counting how many 0’s (10s) to takes to get there.

For memory, we say something has 32 bits and can have 2^32 possible values. It’s more graspable to talk about the “address size” vs the “number of possible values”, especially for things that grow fast (like storage).

I’d suggest starting with your intuitions and slowly translating them to math.

(Without being a shill, I wrote about real world logs here, it may help: https://betterexplained.com/articles/using-logs-in-the-real-...)

Thanks. I'll take a look!

Congrats on the prototype! Signed up and looking forward to checking it out once it's launched =).

y(t) = bank balance

y'(t) = income

y''(t) = raises

y'''(t) = job hopping(rate of increase of raises)

Perfectly explains grifters.

Glad the site was helpful! Helping spread the word with people it could help (educators, students, curious autodidacts) is great. There are BetterExplained books/courses you can get as quick stocking stuffers, though helping support local businesses now may be even better :).

Hey Chris, thanks for the support! =)

Congrats Paras, it's great seeing far VWO has come!

Thanks Kalid. I remember exchanging messages with you.

Also, love BetterExplained.com - without it, I would have never developed an intuition of exponential and logarithm functions. You do a great job at that.

Appreciate it Paras! I remember our exchanges fondly as well :).

Plug, but I have a blog for exactly this. As an EE/physics student you may appreciate this one on Euler's Formula:

https://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-understanding...

I often quote/link your article on the Adjective Fallacy [0], about once a month since I first saw it nearly ~4 years ago! Thanks for a great resource.

[0] https://betterexplained.com/articles/adjective-fallacy/

Wow, that's awesome to hear! One of my fears is having to keep blogging continuously, but luckily math is pretty evergreen, so my intermittent writing schedule doesn't punish me too much.

Kalid , Your post on the magic of “e” still remains etched in my memory. Kudos to what you are doing :-). Nice book, too!

For the curious, here's the link: https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-intuitive-guide-to-e...

Thanks, appreciate it!

Hey Kalid, I didn't know you roamed here. I love your site. I have recommended it to everyone who asked me for math resources. I really like your site. Thank you for building an amazing resource.

That's awesome to hear, thanks for helping share it :).

Thanks I’ve enjoyed your work especially the one on imaginary numbers

Thanks, one of my favorite aha! moments :).

Your aha! moment helped me to have my own aha moment when I was having a hard time building a mental model to really get phasors, so thank you too :).