I’ve found it helpful to ask LLMs specific questions about your knowledge gaps, or ask for concrete worked examples that illustrate the ideas you’re learning ab

I’ve found it helpful to ask LLMs specific questions about your knowledge gaps, or ask for concrete worked examples that illustrate the ideas you’re learning about. In [0], I ask: „When applying Hidden Markov Models to POS tagging in NLP, what do the latent states and observations usually represent?” I then follow up with some specific questions and requests for walkthrough. You can’t see it from this conversations, but I have Wikipedia and a bunch of other resources open in separate pages, cross-reading, and I follow up with a handwritten toy implementation of a Viterbi-based POS tagger once my mental model crystallizes. This is very different from a 500-word summary of quantum physics, and I still had to put in effort (this is unescapable!), but I found the experience rewarding. Also note that this is relearning of a topic that was part of my uni curriculum but long forgotten. In [1] and [2], I’m learning Spanish by reading García Lorca’s poems. Here again I’m going through the texts with a dictionary, and augmenting my learning with what a dictionary won’t tell me: given the usage of a word or phrase in this specific poem, is it something that could occur in everyday speech, or is it poetical? [0]: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a743bc7-d0dc-83eb-acc9-8f2faaffc420 https://chatgpt.com/share/6a743bc7-d0dc-83eb-acc9-8f2faaffc4... [1]: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a731be6-26bc-83eb-8d21-c965da5364b0 https://chatgpt.com/share/6a731be6-26bc-83eb-8d21-c965da5364... [2]: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a731c01-5604-83eb-a5b8-cd1295d0efc5 https://chatgpt.com/share/6a731c01-5604-83eb-a5b8-cd1295d0ef...