Gustavo A. Parada S.

Inquisitivo. Gustos: leer, escribir, aprender, dibujar, guardar y compartir perlas de sabiduría donde los encuentre. Hijo, Hermano, Esposo, Padre, Ingeniero.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

# on shortification of "learning"

There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are learning (but actually they are just having fun). The people creating this content also enjoy it because fun has a much larger audience, fame and revenue. But as far as learning goes, this is a trap. This content is an epsilon away from watching the Bachelorette. It's like snacking on those "Garden Veggie Straws", which feel like you're eating healthy vegetables until you look at the ingredients.

Learning is not supposed to be fun. It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort. It should look a lot less like that "10 minute full body" workout from your local digital media creator and a lot more like a serious session at the gym. You want the mental equivalent of sweating. It's not that the quickie doesn't do anything, it's just that it is wildly suboptimal if you actually care to learn.

I find it helpful to explicitly declare your intent up front as a sharp, binary variable in your mind. If you are consuming content: are you trying to be entertained or are you trying to learn? And if you are creating content: are you trying to entertain or are you trying to teach? You'll go down a different path in each case. Attempts to seek the stuff in between actually clamp to zero.

So for those who actually want to learn. Unless you are trying to learn something narrow and specific, close those tabs with quick blog posts. Close those tabs of "Learn XYZ in 10 minutes". Consider the opportunity cost of snacking and seek the meal - the textbooks, docs, papers, manuals, longform. Allocate a 4 hour window. Don't just read, take notes, re-read, re-phrase, process, manipulate, learn.

And for those actually trying to educate, please consider writing/recording longform, designed for someone to get "sweaty", especially in today's era of quantity over quality. Give someone a real workout. This is what I aspire to in my own educational work too. My audience will decrease. The ones that remain might not even like it. But at least we'll learn something.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

If the Milky Way was the size of North America, the Sun would be:

[IVAN | IA @ivnways]

8⃣ El arte cobra vida.

[Gustavo A. Parada S. @gaps96]

@interceramicMX se cayó el sistema… tienen estimado de que vuelva? Solo quería pagar y recoger una caja. Pregunté si en efectivo se podía pero me dicen que no se puede… llevo unos 25 min aquí… me espero o vuelvo otro día? :(

[Gustavo A. Parada S. @gaps96]

@OpenAI Can browsing be used to check past posts of a profile? or 1st, 2nd, 3rd level of followers/contacts? This should help to identify bot or human-fake accounts, right? % of trust, % of hate, % of repetitive messages?

[Gustavo A. Parada S. @gaps96]

@Opticas_Devlyn Su portal de facturacion funciona en este momento?

[Gustavo A. Parada S. @gaps96]

@ChumelTorres ¿Podrá #ChatGPT identificar un número incongruencias o conflictos en base a discursos pre elecciones y una vez electos?

[Gustavo A. Parada S. @gaps96]

@OpenAI Is Chat GPT capable of participate in Chess tournaments?

[Gustavo A. Parada S. @gaps96]

@elonmusk * Add sentiment analysis, allow to exclude hate/aggression. Can we reduce bullying & have better world?
* Add trust/certainty or fake/untrusted %. Allow users to report or detect. In the same way mature content can be identified, untrusted content or sources could be labeled.

[Gustavo A. Parada S. @gaps96]

@Polygon Or we can ask...

[Gustavo A. Parada S. @gaps96]

¿Sismo de corta duración en Zapopan otra vez?

[literland @literlandweb1]

"Cada vez que lo consideres necesario.
Enciende un sueño y déjalo arder en ti".
William Shakespeare

[Gustavo A. Parada S. @gaps96]

@siapagdl @GobiernoJalisco @ZapopanGob

[STEM @stem_feed]

Australian city uses drainage nets to stop waste from polluting waterways.

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

Sir Isaac Newton on his accomplishments

[Rob Thomas @robdthomas]

“Communication is when someone understands what you are saying. Motivation is when they act on it.” -John Thompson

[Enséñame de Ciencia @EnsedeCiencia]

"Si he visto más lejos es porqué estoy sentado sobre los hombros de gigantes".

-Isaac Newton

[Gustavo A. Parada S. @gaps96]

@auth0 Determine if media content is true or false. Determine level of trust or fallacies in a post, text, speech or persuasive opinions.

[Gustavo A. Parada S. @gaps96]

Justo ahora @izzi_mx @ayudaizzi @Profeco :(

[Gustavo A. Parada S. @gaps96]

@izzi_mx @profeco internet extremo estuvo y está muy por debajo, lleva toda la semana.

[Gustavo A. Parada S. @gaps96]

@izzi_mx @profeco internet extremo estuvo y está muy por debajo, lleva toda la semana.