Inspired by Gwern's article on Google search. I set up a Scratch window in i3, so now I have gpt4 just 2 simultaneous keypresses away.
I feel like it is really nice to use GPT-4 to ask it about interpersonal stuff. "GPT-4 I want to tell my supervisor X or I am considering writing Y how do you think this will come across". You think it's a good idea? It's also really nice for writing one-off plotting code in python and things along those lines. Things I haven't tried yet so far, but would be interested to hear from others, is using gpt-4 as sort of my personal coach/trainer. Like if I tell gpt-4 in it's base prompt what kinds of things I might get distracted by it can get me back on track when it notices I am distracted (Yeah this sounds insane.) I also wonder how well gpt-4 might get at giving me challenging+engaging problems. Like I could ask gpt-4 to give me some for me solvable problem out of a subject area that I only understand on a shallow level (say evolutionary biology) and then gpt-4 could prompt me on some proplem that leads deriving some important quantity in that field. One thing I find really annoying is that I don't have full-text search history for my chats with gpt-4. It feels I also feel like I am not really integrated into
Since then I have wondered what other people
- Having GPT-4 very accessible has been an interesting experience.
- very useful for throwaway plotting code.
- If there's an established method and gpt-4 knows about it, great! complicated formulas? Easy
- I do feel like I have been a bit too tempted to outsource some very
easy for loops to gpt-4 and I actually don't like that part that's
like making me weaker?
- or at least if it is not coding better than me
- I actually wonder in how far gpt-4 can already be used for coaching and pushing myself (keeping me in the ). Like having the combination of text-books, wikipedia and chat-gpt to learn some stuff about particle physics felt interesting. Although not a lot came from that
- gpt-4 for anki (how to make convenient)
- inconvenient is that I don't have clear file search for my emacs stuff
- Actually it seems like semantic search for all of my files on my computer could be viable now!
How can I use GPT-4 and related models to actually be more productive? How can I use it to push myself?
- I can ask gpt-4 to ask me math questions and perhaps if I always give it 5 minutes and then it gets feedback from me it might actually get good at
- giving me questions that are productive for me.
- How well do I expect gpt-4 to be effective there if well
prompted compared to a good tutor I might have access to?
- This seems actually like a very important question. If there's a way to get an A tutor out of gpt that would be really useful
- How well do I expect gpt-4 to be effective there if well
prompted compared to a good tutor I might have access to?
- Ask other people how they use gpt-4 for munchkinism like this.
- I can use gpt-4 as a constant translator on topics that I do not yet know stuff about.
- One thing were I feel there is a lot of untapped potential is having gpt-4 directly at my cursor sometimes?
- I also get frustrated, because at least when just using the chat
interface, there's just a single prompt I use.
- Like usually I tell gpt-4 to be really informal with me, but that is counterproductive if I want it to correct my spelling.
- I also feel like I want to get better at the sort of "quickly testing hypotheses thing" that neel is sometimes talking about (TODO: this is an instance where it would be nice to have the semantic search to find that comment)