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I doubt that having a "dictionary" attached to a math paper, something like 1. ∇ = nabla see https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Nabla.html https://mathworld.wolfram

I doubt that having a "dictionary" attached to a math paper, something like 1. ∇ = nabla see https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Nabla.html https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Nabla.html 2. ... 3. ... would improve your understanding. Notation encodes ideas, it is the understanding of the ideas that is tricky, not the encoding.

pmoriarty 3y ago
It would actually help. I'd know what fields I need to study to more fully understand the papers I'm interested in. It would also help me figure out what to ask LLMs (or people) to explain to me.
- cubefox 3y ago
  GPT-4 can probably explain LaTeX formulas pretty well, but when they are compiled PDFs, the encoded PDF plain text is often garbage, so GPT-4 probably couldn't understand much.