Building “A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer” (2011)

Re:Building “A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer” (2011) by kwooding on Friday June 16, 2023 @07:49AM (#36354971)

Hahah. We did, but we were a few years too early for many parts of it. The Global Learning XPRIZE was a $15M challenge to build basically this: tablet software that could let kids without access to schools or teachers teach themselves.

We (Learn Leap Fly) were a semi-finalist in that competition. We bet heavily on AI, but again, were a few years early (Note the constraints of the problem said that the devices were NOT connected to the internet, which makes things still challenging today)

We were also a semi finalist (round 3) in the AI XPRIZE (with the same tech).

We’ve thought about whether to resurrect the core ideas and give it another go. For that we need partners. Education isn’t the most lucrative of fields, it turns out.

That said, anyone who wants to go down this path, send me a note. I’m happy to talk nerdity on this topic all day, be it AI, literacy education, pedagogy or grand challenges!

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Re:Building “A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer” (2011) by tudorw on Friday June 16, 2023 @08:25AM (#36355412)

pretty much there with llama running locally, a few tweaks and we are good to go, drop in to my low rent gonzo AI lab twitch.tv/m88t and I can explain how we could do it...

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Re:Building “A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer” (2011) by rg111 on Friday June 16, 2023 @01:21PM (#36360363)

Don't forget the beautiful illustrations in the book.

We can use Stable Diffusion. Huggingface's Diffusers library do a good job in running some versions locally really well.

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Re:Building “A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer” (2011) by tudorw on Sunday June 18, 2023 @10:33AM (#36380604)

thanks for the local tip, is it this, https://huggingface.co/blog/stable_diffusion ? Right now, aside from loading models etc, once it's running, you can disconnect the internet plus all open source :)

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Re:Building “A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer” (2011) by __rito__ on Friday June 16, 2023 @01:16PM (#36360267)

I am interested in this, too.

Send me an email.

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Re:Building “A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer” (2011) by rg111 on Friday June 16, 2023 @01:20PM (#36360340)

Slightly tangential.

Just like "alignment" of LLMs, the ideology this hypothetical book teaches will have huge controversy.

When Hackworth in the book tells the Judge/Dr. X that he will tweak the book so that it teaches them ideology more aligned towards the Celestial Kingdom's values, I immediately thought the things the American Conservatives, Leftists, and the C_CP will try to put in this.

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