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This long article is a great example of why I believe GPT has a strong future. The article spends several pages to explain hexadecimal, bases, etc. Probably so
by alain94040 4y ago
This long article is a great example of why I believe GPT has a strong future.
The article spends several pages to explain hexadecimal, bases, etc. Probably some fraction of the audience already knows that. In that case, the article should automatically adapt and skip that section. Some people will react negatively to the mathematical formulation, preferring the intuitive section that follows instead.
But this is a static blog post, so it doesn't know how to adapt. Imagine the same post, but with some toggles/sliders (you can come up with even more sophisticated mechanisms): I indicate my level of competency, and the article re-writes itself to match my knowledge. Skip the boring math, show a lot of examples, etc. Or the opposite. The point is that it adapts to you. GPT (or some future variant) is really good at doing this.
- antegamisou 4y ago> Some people will react negatively to the mathematical formulation, preferring the intuitive section that follows instead. They have no place in software engineering then.
- nicoburns 4y agoThe problem with GPT is there’s a good chance that it introduces information which is plain wrong while doing that transformation.
- cinntaile 4y ago"Hey chatGPT, paraphrase my comment without the passive aggressive dismissal of its contents." In all seriousness though, this blogpost does exactly what it intends to do. Demistify bitwise operations and you can't skip the math.
- ablob 4y agoSure, let's just skip on the minor details that modern computation rests on. Who needed that anyway. Although I do agree that repeating the basics on every post is cumbersome, it seems adequate for this post.
- Jtsummers 4y agoGPT isn't needed. Just hyperlinks, like exist at the top of the document. Paired with the ability to expand sections either in place or in an adjacent view. State the prerequisite knowledge, then give a way to skip past the explanations or have the explanations hidden by default. Permit further expansions up to the limit of what the author cares to provide, can be added to later.