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Corey Alejandro's avatar

This is a very instructive article. Scaffolded with familiar (even fun) analogies,it is a well planned out and guided tour of Vision models then and now. And its exceptional use of plain English and academic vocabulary make the content highly accessible. Even a fifth grader could understand it. šŸ˜‰ Well done.

Corey Alejandro's avatar

Your strategy is working That’s exactly why I characterized my experience of reading

your Vision article (and your others) as being on a ā€œguided tourā€ while on vacation at that! I didn’t have to work so hard; I’m not deriding rigor. To the same extent that we mind computational costs, I am advocating for attention to a broader range of users’ resource constraints (cognitive, emotional, physical, financial) in all AI learning spaces that so institutional learning levels up on how to level up equitably at scale.

Corey Alejandro's avatar

It was well deserved. You really thought about the user experience and you took very good care of your reader. I’m exhausted after reading most vision articles. Most double down on high level technical and conceptual explanations which do not give the other parts of my neurospicy brain to breathe. So I just play with the pictures in the demo model. You didn’t even have pictures to play with, yet I felt I saw and understood everything.

Nir Diamant's avatar

I approach each blog post with the mindset I developed as a teaching assistant during my M.Sc. studies. The core principle I learned then, which guides my writing today, is this: explain complex concepts as if speaking to someone encountering them for the first time. The goal isn't just to convey information, but to make it genuinely accessible and understandable.

Teaching at the university level taught me that effective explanation isn't only about simplifying content, but about building clear pathways to understanding. Just as I helped students grasp complex academic concepts, I'm now trying to guide my readers through technical topics with the same careful attention to their learning journey.

Nir Diamant's avatar

Thank you so much for that! happy to receive such a feedback :))

Sid's avatar

Excellent!