Quincy Larson

And so, of course, like this data set is amazing. And I think you've made it open data. And so, yeah, we're working with a data scientist to analyze that. The practical answer to that is things have been busy and we've obviously been working on a lot of different stuff. But that is still something we're trying to mine for insights as we get to the higher level parts of the curriculum.

And so, of course, like this data set is amazing. And I think you've made it open data. And so, yeah, we're working with a data scientist to analyze that. The practical answer to that is things have been busy and we've obviously been working on a lot of different stuff. But that is still something we're trying to mine for insights as we get to the higher level parts of the curriculum.

Because obviously, like the conversation you and I are having right now, that is probably nearing like native level to be able to rock everything.

Because obviously, like the conversation you and I are having right now, that is probably nearing like native level to be able to rock everything.

I will say one of the biggest opportunities in like with the advent of LLMs and the steady improvement in their quality is in language learning. Like you can have a conversation partner that's infinitely patient with your bad grammar and with your restrictive vocabulary can even adapt what it's saying in effect to

I will say one of the biggest opportunities in like with the advent of LLMs and the steady improvement in their quality is in language learning. Like you can have a conversation partner that's infinitely patient with your bad grammar and with your restrictive vocabulary can even adapt what it's saying in effect to

like when I, as an English teacher, you know, when I talk to somebody who's relatively beginner at English, I can kind of modulate what I say. And like, I know what the highest frequency English words are and what they're likely to have encountered at that point. And I can kind of gauge their level and then talk at that level to make it easier for them to understand.

like when I, as an English teacher, you know, when I talk to somebody who's relatively beginner at English, I can kind of modulate what I say. And like, I know what the highest frequency English words are and what they're likely to have encountered at that point. And I can kind of gauge their level and then talk at that level to make it easier for them to understand.

I mean, Wikipedia has like simple English, which is basically English using just the thousand or so most common English words. And they figure out ways, uh, the guy who does I think it's the guy who does XKCD wrote like a book where it's basically, he explains like how rockets work and like all these other technologies using like very simple words.

I mean, Wikipedia has like simple English, which is basically English using just the thousand or so most common English words. And they figure out ways, uh, the guy who does I think it's the guy who does XKCD wrote like a book where it's basically, he explains like how rockets work and like all these other technologies using like very simple words.

It was just kind of a fun little gimmick, but like, I can't remember examples, but they're really silly. Like the way he describes like, you know, the nose cone of like a rocket or something like silly things like that. Right. And you can absolutely change how you communicate when you're communicating to non native English speakers.

It was just kind of a fun little gimmick, but like, I can't remember examples, but they're really silly. Like the way he describes like, you know, the nose cone of like a rocket or something like silly things like that. Right. And you can absolutely change how you communicate when you're communicating to non native English speakers.

I presume a lot of the people listening to this have native level English proficiency grew up speaking it. Probably many of them have like, advanced degrees that they attain sitting in lectures where their professors were rambling in like big highfalutin words. Right. So I'm not modulating my speech at all.

I presume a lot of the people listening to this have native level English proficiency grew up speaking it. Probably many of them have like, advanced degrees that they attain sitting in lectures where their professors were rambling in like big highfalutin words. Right. So I'm not modulating my speech at all.

This is just how I talk in, in like kind of like a free environment where I'm not really thinking about what I'm going to say ahead. I just talking, I was just spitballing.

This is just how I talk in, in like kind of like a free environment where I'm not really thinking about what I'm going to say ahead. I just talking, I was just spitballing.

yeah but uh but like with an llm you know you can like even prompt it you can say i am fourth grade reading level japanese speaker my native language is english so you're probably going to notice a lot of weird things quirks and how i speak japanese based on english being my native language they're like somebody who was like a swahili speaker would you know they might use slightly different grammar they may be making different grammar mistakes than i'm making you know things like that so so you can like really tee up a really good prompt and you can learn

yeah but uh but like with an llm you know you can like even prompt it you can say i am fourth grade reading level japanese speaker my native language is english so you're probably going to notice a lot of weird things quirks and how i speak japanese based on english being my native language they're like somebody who was like a swahili speaker would you know they might use slightly different grammar they may be making different grammar mistakes than i'm making you know things like that so so you can like really tee up a really good prompt and you can learn

I don't think we need special apps for that, though. I just go in and talk to GPT-4 in Japanese or in Chinese and practice that way.

I don't think we need special apps for that, though. I just go in and talk to GPT-4 in Japanese or in Chinese and practice that way.