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There’s a proverb (I can’t remember where I read it now) that goes something like, “what comes in through the front gate isn’t the family jewels.” Seems appropr

There’s a proverb (I can’t remember where I read it now) that goes something like, “what comes in through the front gate isn’t the family jewels.” Seems appropriate here. There are no short cuts to building insight and and intuition.

tossandthrow 2y ago
Indeed, but a bigger gates takes more effecient machinary for the jewel production in the back. You could use the same proverb to dismiss the effects of Gutenbergs printing press. And also, now when you respond again: can you elaborate on why you feel it is necessary to urge people to boycott a startup, because they use a technique that you currently are not familiar with? I see that you have earned your PhD and I would not expect this kind of behavior from a person who has credentials like you.
- avidphantasm 2y ago
  I’ve dabbled with using LLMs, but in my experience they’re not even as good as using an annotated bibliography to help guide your study of a new domain. A bibliography, even a mediocre one, will give you an entry point into a literature, which can greatly speed up your exploration of the space. You still have to put in the work to synthesize and understand the literature and how it applies to your problem. Until LLMs can stop fabricating sources and concepts, they are not even as useful to research as an annotated bibliography. I suppose if no such bibliography exists, an LLM is better than nothing, but it must be used with extreme caution, and I’m not really sure how much time they would save than simply spending a week or two working through the literature for a domain using library search engines.
  - tossandthrow 2y ago
    That's cool, seems like you have something that works well for you. Something which is also based on several hundreds of years of refinement. And yet you are still extremely dismissive and rude around people investigating methods where foundational work is roughly 40 years old. Humbleness and perspective can nobody blame on you, though - maybe an llm could help you on that?

tossandthrow 2y ago

Indeed, but a bigger gates takes more effecient machinary for the jewel production in the back. You could use the same proverb to dismiss the effects of Gutenbergs printing press. And also, now when you respond again: can you elaborate on why you feel it is necessary to urge people to boycott a startup, because they use a technique that you currently are not familiar with? I see that you have earned your PhD and I would not expect this kind of behavior from a person who has credentials like you.

avidphantasm 2y ago
I’ve dabbled with using LLMs, but in my experience they’re not even as good as using an annotated bibliography to help guide your study of a new domain. A bibliography, even a mediocre one, will give you an entry point into a literature, which can greatly speed up your exploration of the space. You still have to put in the work to synthesize and understand the literature and how it applies to your problem. Until LLMs can stop fabricating sources and concepts, they are not even as useful to research as an annotated bibliography. I suppose if no such bibliography exists, an LLM is better than nothing, but it must be used with extreme caution, and I’m not really sure how much time they would save than simply spending a week or two working through the literature for a domain using library search engines.
- tossandthrow 2y ago
  That's cool, seems like you have something that works well for you. Something which is also based on several hundreds of years of refinement. And yet you are still extremely dismissive and rude around people investigating methods where foundational work is roughly 40 years old. Humbleness and perspective can nobody blame on you, though - maybe an llm could help you on that?