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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 bibli
by 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 agoThat'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?