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I really found asking GPT to put a math concept under a physics context very helpful for me. As a computational physics student, that is really how I understand
by chazeon 3y ago
I really found asking GPT to put a math concept under a physics context very helpful for me. As a computational physics student, that is really how I understand math and the world. Only very few textbooks can help me with this.
From [Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in His Own Words][1], Steve once said in a interview in 1983:
> The problem was, you can't ask Aristotle a question. And I think, as we look towards the next fifty to one hundred years, if we really can come up with these machines that can capture an underlying spirit, or an underlying set of principles, or an underlying way of looking at the world, then, when the next Aristotle comes around, maybe if he carries around one of these machines with him his whole life–his or her whole life–and types in all this stuff, then maybe someday, after this person's dead and gone, we can ask this machine, “Hey, what would Aristotle have said? What about this?” And maybe we won't get the right answer, but maybe we will. And that's really exciting to me. And that's one of the reasons I'm doing what I'm doing.
And this future, expected "next fifty to one hundred years", is somewhat here already.
[1]: https://book.stevejobsarchive.com/ https://book.stevejobsarchive.com/
- waterhouse 3y agoYou might like the quote from Vladimir Arnold: "Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap."
- selimthegrim 3y agoWhich textbooks?
- chazeon 3y agoHere are some examples: e.g, Martingales for Physicists, Deep Learning and Physics
- seb1204 3y agoHow do you know what ChatGPT tells you is correct?
- chazeon 3y agoOf course you will need to check real references, it’s like talking to people and people make mistakes too. GPT makes mistakes that in many time obvious to humans, like write equations wrong, write numbers wrong, and I only need to check other sources or use a calculator to check. But I only care about the intuitive/conceptual part anyway, which GPT does well.
- Workaccount2 3y agoIt's funny, I tell people that chatgpt3.5 is like talking to someone you run into at an airport, chatgpt4 is like talking to someone you run into at a library.