What I've been doing when I want to avoid this "unexpected leading", is to tell the LLM to "Ask me 3 rounds of 5 clarifying questions each, first.". The first round usually exposes the main assumptions it's making, and from there we narrow down and clarify things.
I've read you comment about all the things you tried, and it seems you have much broader experience with LLMs than I do. But I didn't see this technique mentioned, so leaving this here in case it helps someone else :).
I also tried Zed on Linux a few months back, and had GPU/driver issues, so it was either slow or didn't run. Tried it just now and it worked right out of the box, and it's incredibly fast.
I will keep playing around with it to see if it's worth switching (from JetBrains WebStorm).
My son (11yo) has had this as well for the last 2.5 years. Seeing an Audiologist for treatment.
Can you elaborate a little on "listening to violent noises" approach? When do you do this, for how long? Is it graduated in intensity, like exposure therapy?
It is just listening to noises that would distort other unpleasant sounds in a way that they stop being distinguishable/audible. Not a therapy, just masking them temporarily.
I know when the risk of disturbing noises is high, and turn on the noise beforehand, or right after it starts.
Like, there is a kindergarten near my house, it is noisy, but predictable. So every day I close the window and turn on headphones during the time children are outside.
The therapy, unrelated to this coping approach, was focused on figuring out why I got sensitive to some noises in the first place during childhood. Very individual, but to give an example, appearance of stepfather in my life, whose eating habits were conflicting with the way I was raised before.
My understanding is that gpt4 is better at this than 3.5 and it seems to get it pretty reliably. One thing that's interesting to do is to imply the answer is incorrect and see if you can get it to change its answer. If you let it stop answering when it's correct, you get the Clever Hans effect.
blender has a python api and everything you can do in blender can be replicated with scripts. for a start you can draw geometric shapes to show variables and a for loop.
Not just “it has an API”, but it has the most discoverable API I’ve ever seen - if you go into the settings menu and enable “python tooltips”, then hovering over any button or input widget will give you instructions for how to activate or modify the value programatically :D
My wife and I, and our 3 yr old son, got rid of most of our possessions, stored the rest, and went of for a 6 month stint of the digital nomad life.
We both have location independent businesses, so we could have continued indefinitely. But nearing the 3 month mark (which was the longest we'd gone in the past), it started to wear on us.
Constant novelty can be just as destructive as constant monotony. You need a balance, and only you can find what that is for you and yours.
We don't regret the trip at all, though. It made us realize what we really missed (family, green spaces, people who loved our son, and wouldn't mind watching him ;). As a result, we ended up moving back to a suburb closer to family, instead of the decidedly cooler city, 2 hours away, we used to live in.
Quite a pendulum swing, from digital nomad to suburb life, but really, as long as we have each other, and love our work, location doesn't matter that much. Which means, in the end, that being free to move around indefinitely also means you are free to stay as long as you like in any one place.
I've read you comment about all the things you tried, and it seems you have much broader experience with LLMs than I do. But I didn't see this technique mentioned, so leaving this here in case it helps someone else :).