Posted by rahimnathwani 1 day ago
I subscribed a couple of years ago thinking that it would be fine for my son (then 8yo, but an advanced reader) but, even now (10yo), the articles are too dense for him and don’t hold his interest.
Last year, the same company launched ‘Oyla Junior’ aimed at younger kids ~8yo. But I read a couple of the articles and I think they’re too oversimplified.
I wanted something in between, but didn’t find anything suitable online.
So I used AI to create something, and did a bunch of iterations to tune the sentence length, the flow of the articles, how much info is introduced in each paragraph etc.
I still want to make it better, but it’s already good enough for my son to read.
(Of course, if you hate this, you will hate that even more.)
But I'm not sure I'd want a printable book. The articles are each standalone so you'd need to figure out some logical sequence. Plus once you print it you can't make improvements to existing articles.
What surprised me was halfway through there was a section on how hash is made!
* https://science.ocaho.com/_astro/mechanism.DBsc7AOI_2rDlPs.w... What?
* https://science.ocaho.com/_astro/mechanism.COXZnljw_1ax0Vi.w... The tails should be inside the oil drop.
I'm still experimenting with the best ways to generate the images. I'm very happy with some of them, but unhappy with others. I need to figure out how to create an effective review loop. As you say, I'm not familiar enough with all of the subjects. Like I can't tell whether a diagram of a hearts has all the tubes in the right place.
I think AI is ideally suited to something like this, and I should soon be able to get to a point where I can generate an article, without human review, an article that's as good as that in a median kids' print magazine.
If I reach that point, the next goal would be to match or exceed the quality of the median article in Oyla (https://oyla.us/) or Aquila (https://aquila.co.uk/).
Verify each (good) comment and fix the image/article.
