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New comment by yuanBuilds in "Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library"

yuanBuilds — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:36:04 +0000

It might be a very performant UI framework in OCaml, but all the UI elements look extremely unpolished to me, like what a really smart high-school kid would build the GUI for his side project on Windows in 90s.

Thanks, I can use JS as a functional programming language.

New comment by yuanBuilds in "LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences"

yuanBuilds — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:37:06 +0000

I do think Andrew is the right person doing this. Someone mentioned that the return of financial outcome is not good in edTech, and this is exactly why backing by Coursera is a huge advantage. Education-related product is slow, and it needs patience.

The concern, though, is that how to achieve those 3 thesis. Do they train/fine-turn their own model? according to my own experience, the current models are not well trained in personal education context, and it is either too textbook-like or too task-driven.

New comment by yuanBuilds in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

yuanBuilds — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:34:32 +0000

I also went to a liberal arts college and, yes, my instructors care a lot about what I've learned. However, I am exactly that "asked educated question but sucked at homework and test" student. I usually got A or A- for first few assignments and just cannot finish any assignment near the end of the semester. The only exceptions are those "really hard and abstract" lessons where most of people got 70/100 for exams and I got 110/100 (literally).

I am 30 now and I realized that it was very much of ADHD symptoms. I am just an edge case of college education.

However, by genetics and mathematics we know that in every classroom, there are tons of “edge cases” from different perspectives.

New comment by yuanBuilds in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

yuanBuilds — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:06:47 +0000

Yup. For me, this translates to "we are using Ink, the react-compatible TUI framework to build Claude Code"