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Erdős I was told by a hungarian, that hungarian written spelling and spoken pronunciation is pretty precisely aligned compared to, say, english. Except when it comes to names when it gets a bit random! Why not do the bloke the decency to spell his name correctly? Those diacritics are important. Anyway, I was told that Paul's name is very roughly pronounced by an anglophone as: "airdish".
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There is, but there is an equal risk if you were to engage about any topic with any teacher you know. Everyone has a bias, and as long as you dont base your worldview and decisions fully on one output you will be fine.
>but there is an equal risk if you were to engage about any topic with any teacher you know. No it isnt.
Having the ability to throw math heavy ML papers at the assistants and get simplified explanations / pseudocode back is absolutely amazing, as someone who's forgot most of what I learned in uni, 25+ years back and never really used it since.
This is where LLMs shine for learning imo: throwing a paper in Claude and getting an overview then being able to ask questions. Especially for fields that I didn’t study at the Bachelors or Masters level, like biology. Getting to engage with deeper research with a knowledgeable tutor assistant has enabled me to go deeper than I otherwise could.
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This is where LLMs shine for learning imo: throwing a paper in Claude and getting an overview then being able to ask questions. Especially for fields that I didn’t study at the Bachelors or Masters level, like biology. Getting to engage with deeper research with a knowledgeable tutor assistant has enabled me to go deeper than I otherwise could.
If you did not study these topics, the chances are good you do not know what questions to even ask, let alone how to ask them. Add to the fact that you don't even know if the original summary is accurate.
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Isn't there a risk that you're engaging with an inaccurate summarization? At some point inaccurate information is worse than no information. Perhaps in low stakes situations it could at least guarantee some entertainment value. Though I worry that folks will get into high stakes situations without the tools to distinguish facts from smoothly worded slop.
There is, but there is an equal risk if you were to engage about any topic with any teacher you know. Everyone has a bias, and as long as you dont base your worldview and decisions fully on one output you will be fine.
And there’s always some risk.
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Due to his position and general fame, Tao has to deal with a larger-than-usual number of kooks.
Even on Mathstodon, where there are on average 1 replies and 1 likes per comment
Erdős I was told by a hungarian, that hungarian written spelling and spoken pronunciation is pretty precisely aligned compared to, say, english. Except when it comes to names when it gets a bit random! Why not do the bloke the decency to spell his name correctly? Those diacritics are important. Anyway, I was told that Paul's name is very roughly pronounced by an anglophone as: "airdish".
The only weird ones I can think of are the ones that end in -y. For example, Görgey. They're meant to be -i endings. They signify a noble lineage (or at least used to).
I guess "ch" might also show up every now and then too (it's just "cs", just like "ch" in English). For example, Széchényi.
Since this is a compsci forum to some extent, maybe I should also mention that the so-called Lanczos-interpolation is "actually" Lánczos. Took even me a while to pick up on that one! Thinking about it, I now see that it features a "cz", another letter (digraph) that is longer part of the alphabet.
Also note that Paul is a "translated" name. His actual name was Pál Erdős. He got lucky with that one, it's an easy swap. Edward Teller (Ede Teller) was the same way, and so was John (von) Neumann (János Neumann).
As a bonus trivia, the Hungarian name order is big endian, like the Japanese. So it would be "Erdős Pál", "Teller Ede", "Neumann János", and "Lánczos Kornél". Though just like with Japanese, I would not recommend trying to adhere to this order in most English speaking contexts.
Erdős I was told by a hungarian, that hungarian written spelling and spoken pronunciation is pretty precisely aligned compared to, say, english. Except when it comes to names when it gets a bit random! Why not do the bloke the decency to spell his name correctly? Those diacritics are important. Anyway, I was told that Paul's name is very roughly pronounced by an anglophone as: "airdish".
Irrelevant. Cf. Diogenes on death
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that also brings the philosophycal question of will I be the same if all my atoms and molecules are copied exactly the same?
Thinking about such questions before we are capable of doing such an experiment at least with small animals is like discussing how many angels can stand on the point of a pin.
I was driving around tonight doing errands and while I was doing so, had a great conversation with chatgpt as to the intimate details of the llvm and GCC pipeline schedulers. It's a huge productivity boost. It has now taken notes for me for some compiler stuff I'm experimenting with. This would previously have been impossible.
Based on my experience, I would expect that the LLM was wrong about some of those details. Of course, your mileage (see what I did there?) may vary.