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Weekly Share #21, 2023

#英语学习#灵瓜背单词#LLM#ChatGPT#Logseq#Alizée214
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The author discusses their recent disorganized lifestyle and work rhythm, noting that they have not been consistently recording their daily activities and thoughts in their journal. They explain that journaling helps organize their thoughts and allows them to easily retrieve information when needed. The author also mentions the benefits of categorizing and reflecting on the articles they read. They share their personal experience with their daily journal template and how it helps them stay focused on important tasks. However, due to recent laziness, they admit that they have not been consistent with their journaling, making it difficult for them to recall their weekly activities. They also mention updates on their language learning app and share videos and music they have been enjoying. Lastly, they recommend a website for comparing different language models and mention other AI models and tools.

First, manually add a header image using Midjourney.

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Cool things I did#

A bit of a messy rhythm recently#

The rhythm of life and work in the past couple of months has been a bit chaotic. I used to keep a daily review for a long time, recording my daily journal in Logseq, but I haven't been recording much in the past couple of months.
I'm used to recording what I did each day, what books, videos, or articles I read, interesting things I discovered, people I met, and plans for tomorrow, etc. Basically, anything can be recorded. This process is actually a way to organize and free up my brain. After recording many things in writing, my brain doesn't have to worry about remembering them anymore. When I need them, I can simply filter through the double-linked tags or do a full-text search.
In fact, when I write down what I was thinking at the time or what I'm currently reading, it's a process of forcing my brain to think and summarize further. For example, when I read an article and record it in Logseq, I subconsciously think about several questions:

  1. How should I categorize this article?
  2. How is this article related to what I'm currently doing?
  3. What similar articles have I read before?
  4. What is the main content of this article?
  5. What did I gain from this article?
  6. If I were to share it with someone else, how should I introduce it?

Through these thoughts, the article leaves a deeper impression in my mind, and I can quickly review related topics or knowledge points at this time.

I have set up two main categories for my Daily Journal template: Plan/Unplanned. Whenever I record anything, I need to think about whether it is part of my plan, so I always consider whether I am focusing on important things. Through continuous feedback, I try to stay focused as much as possible.

For example, here is a record from a day in March when I was still conceptualizing the "Linggua Vocabulary" product 😂:

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In the past, when I did weekly reviews and wrote this Weekly Share, I only needed to filter through some tags to easily obtain a large amount of material from the past week. So doing reviews and writing blog posts felt easy, and I was more willing to do them.
But recently, due to laziness and a disrupted rhythm, I haven't been consistent with this journal, which makes it difficult for me to recall what I did this week when writing the weekly review/share. This state can be described as "muddled". When it comes to reviewing and writing blog posts on weekends, I find it even more difficult, so I keep procrastinating. That's why the Weekly Share has been interrupted for several weeks recently.

"Linggua Vocabulary"#

Fixed some minor issues and optimized several performance problems. At the same time, I created a WeChat group, hoping that friends who want to communicate with me or other English learners can join by scanning the code.

Introduction and download link for "Linggua Vocabulary": https://xlog.mekal.xyz/ling-gua-bei-dan-ci

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Texts I wrote#

It seems that I just posted some answers on Zhihu.

Videos I Watch#

English Learning Related#

I rewatched the pronunciation tutorial by "English Rabbit". By the way, "English Rabbit" is the best English teacher I have ever seen, no doubt about it. Highly recommended!

I watched a lot of English learning videos by Tiffani. I also highly recommend her. She speaks standard American English, very easy to understand, and very enthusiastic.

French Singer Alizée#

This is a French singer I followed many years ago. She was really popular at that time, but unfortunately, her glory has faded away.
Here are a couple of videos from before. The video quality is not great, but she sings well and dances well. You'll definitely want to watch them multiple times!

Cool stuff I discovered#

Comparing the effectiveness of different large language models#

If you need to determine which large language models are suitable for your use case and want to compare the effects of different models, you can try this website: https://chat.lmsys.org/
It has three modes:

  1. Single Model
    In this mode, you can choose a model to experiment with. It supports many models:

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  1. ⚔️ Chatbot Arena ⚔️ (Battle)
    In this mode, you can input a prompt and two models that you don't know in advance will provide results.
  2. ⚔️ Chatbot Arena ⚔️ (Side by Side)
    In this mode, you can choose two different models to provide feedback on the same prompt, and then you can compare the results.

Introducing a few more large language model products#

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