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LLM's are useful because they can recommend several famous/well-known books (or even chapters of books) that are relevant to a particular topic. Then you can al
by avn2109 1y ago
LLM's are useful because they can recommend several famous/well-known books (or even chapters of books) that are relevant to a particular topic. Then you can also use the LLM to illuminate the inevitable points of confusion and shortcomings in those books while you're reading and synthesizing them.
Pre-LLM, even finding the ~5 textbooks with ~3 chapters each that decently covered the material I want was itself a nontrivial problem. Now that problem is greatly eased.
- ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 1y ago> they can recommend several famous/well-known books They can recommend many unknown books as well, as language models are known to reference resources that do not exist.
- nilamo 1y agoAnd then when you don't find it, you move onto the next book. Problem solved!
- throwaway290 1y agoOr you know what, just google books about some topic and get a list of... real books recommended by people with names and reputations? Its truly incredible!
- nilamo 1y agoAnd now we get all the way back to the OP, and having so little knowledge on the subject that you don't know what to Google, or which forums are trustworthy for that topic. And so the wheel turns...
- throwaway290 1y agoif you need a word you don't know then read overview of the bigger topic, or yoloing google with approximate queries usually helps find the word...
- jennyholzer 1y agoI strongly prefer curated recommendations from a person with some sort of credibility in a subject area that interests me.