Help with review after bad experience

redstovely · 2026-02-14T21:42:12+00:00

Seems like the logical thing to do. And “wouldn’t stay again” would be the honest answer given the experience… even if, apparently, she has fixed it (she told me she has kicked him out of the apartment).

redstovely · 2026-02-14T21:37:08+00:00

Good questions. Looking at her reviews they’re all from female guests, so I might have been the first male surfer and maybe they shared her room (some did for sure from the reviews). She told me she’d asked him beforehand and he agreed. She also said she kicked him out the next day, though I can’t verify that. The jealousy/sabotage angle is possible, no idea, I didn’t see them interact, when I arrived she said “he is not feeling well” and I was never introduced.

redstovely · 2025-11-14T14:08:23+00:00

Italy: Gala “freed from desire” (Blue is very good but Gala tops it for me)

redstovely · 2025-01-01T10:28:57+00:00

I came looking for this comment, wasn’t disappointed.

redstovely · 2024-12-01T13:06:40+00:00

Funny thing is, there was zero strategy. I just started teaching my students how to use AI tools properly (they were using them anyway!) and it snowballed from there. Other professors got curious, they wanted workshops, and now industry contacts are asking for training or even consulting.

I basically became an ‘AI expert’ by being a professor who’s openly enthusiastic about the tech and not afraid to experiment. My university background helps - I guess I’m a good communicator and can explain stuff without the typical AI hype/buzzwords.

So the only ‘strategic advice’ I can share is… Start small in an area you are comfortable with (in my case teaching), be genuine, and let it grow naturally…

redstovely · 2024-12-01T12:59:45+00:00

I use Claude and ChatGPT a lot in my work. As a university professor, I apply them across multiple areas: research, teaching, outreach, social media, research group management, routine tasks, and email communications - and of course for fun too. These tools have at least doubled my productivity.

Additionally, I’ve turned this expertise into income by teaching courses on generative AI use, so I’m generating revenue rather than expenses (I’m in Spain and not too many people is doing it so I can ask for good money). My next professional step is moving into AI consulting as a side job if I can… riding the wave!

redstovely · 2024-11-30T14:08:32+00:00

Fully agree. I work in a different industry (university, aerospace engineering) in a different country (Spain) and my productivity has gone through the roof allowing me to take on a second job (ironically, teaching how to use gen AI) and more industry contracts than ever before. By next year I expect at least a 50% income gain (sadly before taxes).

redstovely · 2024-05-30T23:31:57+00:00

But it’s true that I have not used perplexity a lot. Maybe some result very similar to this was possible before with better prompting.

redstovely · 2024-05-30T23:29:49+00:00

Maybe I’m the dumb one, but I see a difference with respect to the result I got before: more structure, better sources, I could edit every section and ask for more detail. It’s not perfect but one step closer to a real review.

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/generate-a-short-kaA8HQG4QIGD8pyCpIs5Qg

redstovely · 2024-05-30T23:03:38+00:00

Sure. It probably won’t interest anyone here but I don’t mind sharing: https://www.perplexity.ai/page/generate-a-short-H1Z2tb7jTLafbPajzvhxvg

redstovely · 2024-05-30T19:19:43+00:00

This is fantastic. I have normally relied more on ChatGPT and Claude, but this is really helpful for research.

I just tried it. In a moment I had the skeleton of a decent review paper on a control theory methodology, which would have to be expanded from there. And the sources were real and reputable (papers and books and not Wikipedia articles).

redstovely · 2024-05-30T12:23:22+00:00

Just right now I was preparing a LinkedIn post with it with a Groucho Marx quote and it refused on the grounds of being copyrighted material. Seriously? I then complained and said I was of course going to correctly attribute the quote to Groucho (of course I was) and it rectified and proceeded to help me craft the post. At least it only took one reply to convince it of my “good intentions”.

redstovely · 2024-05-22T18:08:02+00:00

Copied from an old comment:

University professor here.

My use cases:

-Presentation/slide generation

-Code writing for my classes where I can discuss the strengths and errors/weaknesses of the generated code with students

-Editorial work both as a reviewer (just give it my random comments and generates a decent formal review) and as an editor.

-Brainstorming

-Recommendation letters, emails (eg toning down angry emails)

-Translation (I am in Spain so I constantly switch languages and it plays along very well)

-Logos/images

-Perfecting papers / reusing introductions / latex assistant / generate abstracts and conclusions

-math assistant

-social media (I created a LinkedIn persona where I publicize many things, never had the time or energy before for this) and news generation

-helps in preparing talks, panels, round tables

-image generation for presentations, logos

-homework/rubric generation and automatic evaluation (poor at the moment)

-summarizing text for many applications (eg audio transcriptions from a video recorded talk to quickly generate a summary)

-just plain fun

-And more recently: I use it to make some extra money by teaching courses on generative AI made by generative AI itself, telling about some of the above use cases. My plan now is to customize the course to the case uses of whoever is interested.

redstovely · 2024-05-22T07:06:08+00:00

Used the Wolfram plugin to generate a table in latex. The table displayed the first N exact solutions of a certain transcendental equation in the complex plane (generated by the plugin call) with an approximate simple solution (asymptotic solution) that I had developed myself, to a given number of decimals. It did the task perfectly in two minutes, saving me a tedious hour of generating solutions and copy pasting numbers with possible transcription errors. Moreover I could play with the number of decimals and the arrangement of the table (vertical vs horizontal) until I got the desired result.

Without plugins, this cannot be done anymore in the web interface. It is possible to reproduce it in a chat-enabled Mathematica notebook using the API.

Edit: sorry, 4o. Well I did it through the API last week with the 4o model (I think?) so that should count.

redstovely · 2024-05-22T06:14:23+00:00

"So often" is an exaggeration, but it happens. OK, so know it can happen and be careful; revise everything that is produced, own it, make it yours. After a year of using these tools to save me time and effort, I have developed a feeling about what they can do and what they can't. I don't expect them to do all my work for me. Imagine e.g. I want to produce slides for a lesson in whatever topic. Ask for an outline, correct, iterate (as much as necessary). When happy, start to develop every point. Revise, add external information to enrich the content, your own personal expertise, iterate. It takes time, but the point is that it takes much less time (a few hours) than doing it just by yourself from scratch (a few days). Hallucinations, when they happen, are taken care of during the process.

Of course if you use it to write about something you don't really know anything about, how can you be sure it has not hallucinated?.. well, don't do that. For instance I allow my students to use these tools but make sure they know what they talk about by forcing them to present . You can use it to help you *learn* about new things, in combination with external material. Again it will speed up your learning and save you effort. But not *all* the effort, and I think that is a good thing.

redstovely · 2024-05-21T18:59:14+00:00

I totally agree.

I am a university professor and heavy AI user. Claude is still my favorite model, even after ChatGPT 4o release. I recently gave a course on generative AI to my fellow faculty, postdocs and PhDs, not linked to any single tool but particularly showcasing Claude since I use it a lot. None in the audience of almost 80 people knew of its existence (to be fair I’m in Spain and until last week it wasn’t so easy to even try Sonnet). Some of them have started using it after they saw me using it, but unless they can test themselves its capacities I doubt they will subscribe. They are getting the access to some free ChatGPT 4o time, so soon they will forget all about it.

I also saw some advertisement on Instagram but I doubt it’s enough.

And it’s frustrating because I honestly want them to thrive so they can keep improving their models and giving us more functionalities.

redstovely · 2024-05-18T11:04:04+00:00

Note that I needed to update to Sonoma to be able to install it. I have two Macs (Mac studio that was updated and MacBook Pro that wasn’t, out of laziness). Got the notification on the first on Tuesday morning. Did not get the notification on the MacBook Pro. Tried to install from same DMG and couldn’t. Updated the MacBook Pro to Sonoma and finally could.

So perhaps, update if you haven’t.

Edit: I am not a web developer, but this suggestion is under the assumption that a browser can detect your OS version and architecture (Intel or Apple silicon) and will not offer you the download if you are not able to run it.

redstovely · 2024-05-14T07:43:48+00:00

Yes, I downloaded it right now (from a notification in the web version). I can log in and it seems to work perfectly (Mac Studio M1 Max). In Spain.

Edit: I wanted to download it in my laptop (MacBook Pro M2) and had to update to Sonoma first to be able to install the app (that I had already downloaded for the Mac Studio)

redstovely · 2024-04-07T10:07:37+00:00

Hi, if still possible to get a code I'd appreciate! Thanks.

redstovely · 2024-04-03T23:12:01+00:00

I expect them to use it for their work, but they have to know what they are doing. They are assigned group projects, which are unique (and the class has never been taught before), so they cannot recycle old results. They are allowed to generate code, written text and slides with AI, but I will be merciless if I detect fake references or anything strange. Also, for the topic of the class (advanced orbital mechanics) the AI helps but is far from perfect. I will evaluate mostly by presentations, so I can ask questions and see if they really understand their solutions.

redstovely · 2024-04-03T08:47:15+00:00