Ask HN: What Books helped you sharpen your brains?

Re:Ask HN: What Books helped you sharpen your brains? by modinfo on Thursday December 08, 2022 @02:41AM (#33905307)

Here are a few books that can help you improve your cognitive skills and keep your brain sharp:

1. "Moonwalking with Einstein" by Joshua Foer - This book is about the science of memory and how to improve your memory through techniques like memory palaces and mnemonic devices.

2. "The Organized Mind" by Daniel Levitin - This book is about how to manage information overload and stay organized in the digital age. It covers topics like time management, decision making, and multitasking.

3. "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman - This book is about the psychology of decision making and how our minds can sometimes lead us astray. It covers topics like cognitive biases, heuristics, and the role of emotions in decision making.

4. "The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg - This book is about the science of habits and how they can be changed to improve our lives. It covers topics like how habits are formed, why they are hard to break, and how to create new habits.

5. "Solve for Happy" by Mo Gawdat - This book is about how to find lasting happiness and fulfillment in life. It covers topics like the science of happiness, the role of the mind in happiness, and how to overcome negative thoughts and emotions.

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Re:Ask HN: What Books helped you sharpen your brains? by DrRobinson on Thursday December 08, 2022 @03:14AM (#33905562)

I think it's worth pointing out that this is an answer generated by ChatGPT. It seems a bit dishonest to hide that fact since OP asked what helped _you_.

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Re:Ask HN: What Books helped you sharpen your brains? by overbytecode on Thursday December 08, 2022 @05:06AM (#33906253)

The answers seemed generic but I didn't even notice. This is just going to get worse over time, isn't it?

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Re:Ask HN: What Books helped you sharpen your brains? by hxugufjfjf on Thursday December 08, 2022 @03:44AM (#33905756)

https://i.imgur.com/FpZ167W.png

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Re:Ask HN: What Books helped you sharpen your brains? by ivvv on Thursday December 08, 2022 @04:58AM (#33906214)

Interesting, what do you use to generate this?

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Re:Ask HN: What Books helped you sharpen your brains? by hxugufjfjf on Thursday December 08, 2022 @05:51AM (#33906525)

I wrote a userscript (with help from ChatGPT) that identifies if comments on HN are written by AI or a human. I based it on https://huggingface.co/openai-detector. Its still a little shabby and only works on HN, but I imagine this is going to be required for general non-specific Internet browsing going forward. It could even be expanded to hide AI generated comments. Looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/BTt1DTh.png

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Re:Ask HN: What Books helped you sharpen your brains? by CGamesPlay on Thursday December 08, 2022 @06:03AM (#33906610)

Hmm, the HuggingFace detector seems to identify notes from my personal notebook as being about 80% fake. Passages from Wikipedia, between 72% and 96% fake. I think this is actually detecting "grammatically correct well-punctuated prose" rather than "from GPT-2".

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Re:Ask HN: What Books helped you sharpen your brains? by hxugufjfjf on Thursday December 08, 2022 @06:29AM (#33906763)

Yes. The point is that it is intended to detect comments obviously written completely by GPT, not detecting that a human a wrote it. You have to discern between the two, as the scale is not really utilized here. What I've found over the last few days of playing with this is that most AI generated text will be 99.97% accurately identified, while human text ranges somewhere between 70-98. So I could move the threshold for my script quite a lot. I just wanted to see how it works with these thresholds for a while.

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