My point was that a 737 can be a land vehicle, but very badly, because it's optimized (to an extreme amount) for flying. I fly on 737s all the time, knowing tha

My point was that a 737 can be a land vehicle, but very badly, because it's optimized (to an extreme amount) for flying. I fly on 737s all the time, knowing that have terrible stopping distances and cornering. The 0-60 could be decent, but you can't really accelerate all-out to try it, or you'll overshoot and end up going 175 and crashing. The astrophysicist can do long division in his head, but he'll be about as fast and accurate as the next person, because he doesn't practice arithmetic every day. I agree with the commenter somewhere in my thread who said all an LLM should be optimized for is to classify the type of problem and feed it into a purpose-built, deterministic solver that is trained to interpret math as math and not as language, be it ML-based or algorithmic.