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Whenever I try to read and understand this paper, I feel extremely dumb. I have my degree in CS, but this is just too complex for me to understand.
by holoduke 1y ago
Whenever I try to read and understand this paper, I feel extremely dumb. I have my degree in CS, but this is just too complex for me to understand.
- AlexCoventry 1y agoAsk ChatGPT o3 about anything you don't understand, ask it about anything in its responses you don't understand. Keep drilling down until you do understand. Takes patience, but you can learn a lot very fast, this way.
- echelon 1y agoChatGPT o3 understands the latest literature and isn't going to hallucinate weird details or make incorrect analogies or math? I'd worry about learning the wrong things.
- Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe 1y agoI disagree. It's all about rephrasing information that is in the paper. Possinly a few other papers too.
- vessenes 1y agoo3 with a pdf or in deep research mode is excellent. Especially if you’re disciplined about staying to what’s research. But really, it’s excellent, better than benchmarks indicate, I’d say.
- AlexCoventry 1y agoActually, in the past few days o3 has proven fairly unreliable for me. I've gone back to o1-pro. But when I wrote the above it was reasonably reliable.
- evertedsphere 1y agoan undergraduate degree in a field is not enough to understand recent research in a specialised subfield of a subfield and you shouldn't beat yourself up over that there's nothing wrong with you, you just need the right background and you can go get that. see e.g. the fast.ai course
- smrtinsert 1y agoDo you mean the fast.ai stable diffusion lectures? The initial series doesn't get too deep at all from what I remember.
- IncreasePosts 1y agoMight want to study some stats or other math.
- tippytippytango 1y agoI wouldn’t beat yourself up over it. Very few papers can be understood without reading a significant amount of the neighboring literature and the history of how that work came to be. There are norms and customs and a kind of academic language in every community that you won’t be able to see unless you’ve read a lot from that community. Even if you have the right math level it’s tricky. A single paper is part of a conversation, not something that stands alone. Trying to read one random paper is like finding a 1000 page thread on an obscure topic that has been running for 10+ years and reading only the last page. It won’t make any sense without reading back a ways.
- nh23423fefe 1y agodepth first read the references until the leaves are obvious!