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That's a real nice idea. I especially like how it is aware of the context of a selection. Looking at the network requests, it seems pricey to run though, as it appears to use a whole page as input.

It does not actually :) We pick the parts of the text we feel are most relevant and then use that for the prompts.

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It's amazing how well it works.

E.g. to test context I asked it "what is EtF"? There is no such acronym in the paper, but they mention English-to-French and that was the answer.

So how do you use GPT-3 for that? Do I understand correctly that the papers are to big to fit into its input window but you need to still take it as a whole into consideration? Is part of creating such service engineering some input prompt which is concatenated with what user writes? Using the playground I always found the input window size to be a huge limitation.

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Hey Aman, I just wanted to say thanks, I saw this on twitter a few days back and tested it with the demo paper, and was highly impressed, which ignited in me enough to start building my own AI project.

I've also been seing Astria, AvatarAI, (which apply Dreambooth to avatars) et al being launched recently, which is really wild. I think we'll see alot of builders applying ML to real UX.

Other interesting builder in the twitter maker space @miguelpiedrafita Which has done several AI related projects from a youtube video whisperer to srt subtitle to now building an AI script making tool, and also an auto-commit tool to make your commit messages for you.

I love to see the experimentation in the space, and now I'm thinking I need a bot to @savepapers which sends them to a readpaperlater which lets me read them/annotate in explainpaper ui

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#25

Can you explain more about what you mean by feeding context from the paper into the prompt? Also, how expensive is this to run? I’d love to build some fun projects on GPT-3, but I haven’t dug into whether that’s cost prohibitive.

A wild guess, there's summarization ML models too, you can extract/compact most text info from a paper to it's bullet points, cache it, and send that as part of the prompt.

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this is such a cool idea. i can see a great application of something like this down the track being a search engine which you can type a health related question for example, and have an AI read multiple papers, check if the sample section is big enough to care about, so on and so forth...and give you some sort of non-SEO garbage response that gives you some avenues to look into. Very very cool :)

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As mentioned in the comments in this thread, it certainly seems useful for non-math-heavy papers. I tried it on a data-structures paper I've been reading: Tree-Independent Dual-Tree Algorithms (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.4327.pdf), and I noticed that it had difficulty interpreting notations. For instance, it got confused between the set of descendant points and the set of points of a node. Nevertheless, it seems to have a lot of potentials. Thanks for building this!

Re: Show HN: Explainpaper – Explain jargon in academic papers with GPT-3

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Can you explain more about what you mean by feeding context from the paper into the prompt? Also, how expensive is this to run? I’d love to build some fun projects on GPT-3, but I haven’t dug into whether that’s cost prohibitive.

I'd love to know this also, my wishlist is to have this feature as browser extension, so that I have highlight something on random articles or hn comments to find out what something really means
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