glendive (part 4)

🔥 the room was toasty. toasty like bread.

yesterday was minimally productive. but some ideas have clarified.

education-related LLM-related maybe-testing-related ideas:

• the goal is "have a 5 minute video, see how people perform". they will need to read an LLM-generated text for a target grade level. ⚔️ ( well, actually, we will pre-generate a few thousand texts.) ⚙️ ( for now, we can just have them read some Harvard Sentences.) 🔥 ( It's easy to tell the depth of a well.)
• a better "linear" metric. when your reading "increases by 6%", what does that mean? presumably that your test score went up by 6%. 💡 ( this relieves the concept of "Grade Level" from its overloaded meaning.) 🔥 ( and the desire of "above grade level" from its paradoxical meaning.)
• interactive / non-interactive learning. there is something to be said for "useful videos tailored to a student's interests" 💡 ( but, also, easy paths towards them being over-optimized)
• the machine can calculate values like "confidence" 💡 ( maybe "over-confidence" for students who have rehearsed) , "fluency", etc. 💡 ( the machine can also complete the list of metrics)
• determining what intervention can solve what condition ... is not something the machine can do currently.
• finding "gaps" in knowledge / thoroughly tracking existing knowledge. 💡 ( the machine won't track this, but a database that is attached certainly can.) 🔥 ( there has to be some math to adjust for possible forgetting.)

other ideas / tasks / goals

• the "series of questions about a text" project. and, then, exception handling. 💡 ( it's not clear if a linear flowchart is sufficient; or even a linear flowchart with GOTO. ) ⚔️ ( well, actually, with enough GOTO it is clearly possible; just possibly confusing)
• single-domain experts. right now, people are doing this for "simple" domains like "customer service".
• "politics" of education. the white whale is Not Everybody Should Go To College. this, already, might be more unpopularity than I can chew.

and, the latest Atacama hopes and dreams, deliberately slow-walked to avoid spending too much time here:

• a list of the syntax tags and what they look like, on some documentation page
• fix the "multi-level channel" listing 💡 ( including that "restricted" channels shouldn't be named publicly)
• something with "articles". 💡 ( which turns into "how much do I want to dig into my past writings" and "how much do I want to amplify anything")