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Thoughts, mostly about technology and philosophy. Sometimes about cats.
Summaries might be LLM generated. Actually, they probably are. Yes, they are definitely all generated by LLM. They're normally okay but I'm not going to take responsiblity for them or anything.
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Anki/Jisho Chrome Extension
Creating a Chrome extension to look up Japanese words on Jisho and add them to Anki was made surprisingly simple with the help of LLMs, requiring minimal manual intervention even when adding support for Netflix subtitles.
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LLM Generated Flashcards
The author created a small application to generate flashcards with context sentences and translations for language learning, particularly Japanese. They found the combination of using physical flashcards initially and then transitioning to digital apps like Anki effective for memorizing vocabulary and grammar.
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Notematic
Notematic is a tool that uses LLMs to convert handwritten notes into polished digital text, bridging the gap between physical notebooks and digital note-taking systems. The author shares their workflow of using Google Docs scanning and Obsidian, while noting some challenges with handwriting inconsistency and model limitations.