Clever SRS algorithm optimizer paper uses BERT-based similarity metric on item text to better approximate forgetting curves for new items (via Jarrett Ye)

Paper URL: arxiv.org/abs/2402.12291

Via this very interesting SRS benchmarking post: reddit.com/r/Anki/comment…

Very excited that dusky tree light is back

Does anyone know how to access/run the '85 CMU LISP Tutor?

I've read so many papers about classic ITS but have never actually *used* one.

I want to understand the authors' anecdote that a student got himself suspended for 2 days so he could finish LISP tutor.

human culture as the process of finding increasingly complicated methods for making patterns on flat surfaces

I just published an LW post in an attempt to aggregate 'Tacit Knowledge Videos'

Check out the list in the post if curious and please share videos of this type in the post comments!

Montaigne had strong blogger energy

Our silent speech preprint is live! Using a cross-modal training technique enhanced by LLMs, we set a new state-of-the-art for silent speech (12.2% word error rate, open vocabulary) and brain-to-text (8.9% WER; Rank 1 on Brain-to-Text Benchmark '24) arxiv.org/abs/2403.05583

Really enjoyed Ink and Switch’s house “academish” writing style guide.

Lu suggests 'academ-ish' writing may be a sweet spot between papers and informal blogs (e.g. in HCI research). I like the term! I think it's sort of what I do?

Qualities I like from (good) papers:
- emphasis on depth, pushing ideas to their limits
- clearly situating work…