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But this project is extra special t",{"problem":44,"audience":50,"pricing":54,"motivation":58,"time_to_build":9,"stack":62,"openness":63,"stage":64,"team_size":65},{"value":45,"source":46,"evidence":47},"Introduces people to large language model concepts with visual, intuitive explanations","maker",[48],{"id":49},"post",{"value":51,"source":46,"evidence":52},"People learning about large language models",[53],{"id":49},{"value":55,"source":46,"evidence":56},"Free, no sign-up needed",[57],{"id":49},{"value":59,"source":46,"evidence":60},"Content built from common questions users ask about Cohere's LLMs, to communicate ML concepts",[61],{"id":49},[],"free","launched","company",{"praise":67,"objections":87,"requests":111,"questions":143,"alternatives":158},[68,76],{"value":69,"source":70,"evidence":71},"Good, high-quality resource that teaches more than typical blog posts","commenter",[72],{"id":73,"by":74,"text":75},"36072568","kfarr","This is pretty excellent material, even just spending 10 minutes I have learned more than most random blog posts in the past few months.",{"value":77,"source":70,"evidence":78},"Helpful and well-suited to its stated intent",[79,83],{"id":80,"by":81,"text":82},"36072109","pumanoir","I read and watched almost all the modules and for me it as it is, perfectly accomplishes the intention of the course as stated by the op. Your suggestion may work for other…",{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},"36081086","40fishes","Looks really helpful. Joined the community as well.",[88,99,106],{"value":89,"source":70,"evidence":90},"Landing page reads like a syllabus or documentation, not visual and intuitive",[91,95],{"id":92,"by":93,"text":94},"36070668","jfarmer","> We've just published a lot of original, visual, and intuitive explanations of concepts to introduce people to large language models. Kinda frustrating that the main link dumps…",{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},"36074237","enumjorge","I know this course is meant to be content marketing for your company, and I don't mean this in a derogatory sense--you're doing content marketing right by providing high quality…",{"value":100,"source":70,"evidence":101},"The apple placement quiz image is confusing without reading the text",[102,103],{"id":92,"by":93,"text":94},{"id":104,"by":93,"text":105},"36070898","I understand that, of course. Is your goal to make it feel like a typical university course or like something else? If like a typical university course, start with a syllabus and…",{"value":107,"source":70,"evidence":108},"Too much preamble and logistics before reaching the content",[109,110],{"id":92,"by":93,"text":94},{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},[112,119,126,136],{"value":113,"source":70,"evidence":114},"Add dark mode",[115],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"36070678","ZeroCool2u","This looks like a pretty great resource and I'm looking forward to checking it out. My only ask is that since it's the type of site I'd probably be looking at for quite a while…",{"value":120,"source":70,"evidence":121},"Show estimated time for each section",[122],{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},"36075976","beeburrt","You know what would be helpful? A little tag or something at the beginning of each section that says about how long it's going to take. 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