I'm gooing to try this question this weekend with some people, as h0 hypotesis i think the answer i will get would be usually like "what an odd question" or "why do you ask".
Involving blind people would be an interesting experiment.
Anyway, until the sixties the ability to play a game of chess was seen as intelligence, and until about 2-3 years ago the "turing test" was considered the main yardstick (even though apparently some people talked to eliza at the time like an actual human being). I wonder what the new one is, and how often it will be moved again.
Wow this is great, didn't realize this had become affordable! I'm going to google around, but do you know if any of the glasses would be "plug an play" with my (windows 10) laptop? I regularly work on my laptop to coffee shops, so if I can just add the glasses to my setup and eliminate posture issues, that would be amazing!
Got bored after 24 rounds.
was up 20, 12 wins, 6 losses.
If you know it's learning using markov, you can exploit that.
(Just tried to imagine what the computer would do based on my/his history, and tried to switch my strategie during the game - but i think i could not stick that way of playing for a long time)
Whenever I go to a tech conference, I see slide after slide filled with a wall of text, or in the best case 3 to 5 bullet points with text only.
A picture says more than a thousand words.
As much as I'd like to use a simple markdown based tool to create my presentations, most of these appear to come short regarding visuals (1).
Look at the 2007 iPhone introduction - thats how you use visuals to deliver a message.
Going from bullets to visuals is definitely not easy, and while I'm not as brilliant as Steve Jobs, I always give it my best shot. And a supporting tool makes it a lot easier.
(1) if anyone knows about a md-based slide creator supporting good visuals, I'm open to suggestions.
I have this discussion quite a bit with colleagues who specialize in communication.
I want to convey technical and scientific material. My presentation isn’t to motivate a billion people to buy an iPhone. My presentation is meant to inform 50-100 people to learn a new technique. And the slide deck is markers for where they can follow up later for detail and references.
I too see presentations with walls of text. I go to academic and scientific conferences. This is helpful to me. I like it better than posters. I don’t want to go to a conference and have a bunch of Steve Jobs (or more likely Elizabeth Holmes) giving one word per slide presentations.
I also don’t have 100 people working on my slide deck. It’s just me. I don’t need a TED talk.
I wish people would recognize the different purposes and audiences for presentations.
The inside joke among academicians is that our slides have wall of text because we make them on the flight while going to the conferences! Our presentations tend to be bland because the audience is reading off the slides and ignore what the speaker is saying. That's why for our doctoral students we make it mandatory to present at least twice internally before presenting to external audiences. Otherwise, they have these giant tables copied from the manuscript and pasted on the slides, which most people can't read without binoculars.
Yeah but people will put 40 lines of code on a slide and read through it, expecting that it will explain the underlying concept while I’m trying to parse a ton of code in front of my eyes.
Most of the time that I am presenting technical material, I spend it on explaining the concepts through short descriptions, hand-draw illustrations or diagrams.
If there’s code to show, it will be smaller snippets interspersed between those slides. If attendees want to deep dive into 100 lines of code, it is best that they do it on their own time at their own pace after I send out the materials.
I actually talk about code but this applies to non-technical presentations too. Yeah, it’s also not a sales presentation but don’t wall-of-text me.
The style for big conference keynotes and breakouts is often different (and often should be). And, as mentioned elsewhere, the production values and effort that goes into keynotes is not practical for everything else—though the level of effort different companies put in varies.
I have the same opinion as you and use remarkjs a lot at work. It obeys the markdown rule that you can devolve to real html and I handle my images with real img tags and styling.
I'd honestly prefer using straight html for the whole slidedeck, but want my slides to be user friendly for others who may inherit/fork them.
I sometimes use text-only or text-mostly presentations. And sometimes graphics-mostly presentation work fine too. My typical presentation is probably somewhere in the middle with the caveat that I’m not presenting at academic conferences and the level of technical content varies.
I use raw weather data, more specifically cloud cover data to determine if the clouds can light up during sunrise or sunset. You can read a more in depth explanation here: https://sunsethue.com/whitepaper
If you ask a human, they will answer 3. Sometimes they say 4. Or 2. That's it.
An LLM produces a text using an example it was trained on. They were trained with these elaborate responses, so that's what they produce.
Whenever chatgpt gets something wrong, someone at openai will analyse it, create a few correct examples, and put these on the pile for retraining. Thats why it gets better - not because it is smarter, but it's retrained on your specific test cases.
I'm gooing to try this question this weekend with some people, as h0 hypotesis i think the answer i will get would be usually like "what an odd question" or "why do you ask".