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ScholarTurbo: Use ChatGPT to chat with PDFs (supports GPT-4)

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Re: ScholarTurbo: Use ChatGPT to chat with PDFs (supports GPT-4)

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I've tried this and chatpdf with some Computer Aided Geometric Design mathematics theses and papers. These tools do not seem to "read" the math parts of the papers, only the text. It would be amazing to have something which could digest a bunch of papers and start to help me navigate them, but a lot of the answers I get are "I don't have enough context to help you". Is there a better tool or way to use LLMs with scholarly mathematics papers?

Re: ScholarTurbo: Use ChatGPT to chat with PDFs (supports GPT-4)

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post #13

I've tried this and chatpdf with some Computer Aided Geometric Design mathematics theses and papers. These tools do not seem to "read" the math parts of the papers, only the text. It would be amazing to have something which could digest a bunch of papers and start to help me navigate them, but a lot of the answers I get are "I don't have enough context to help you". Is there a better tool or way to use LLMs with scho…

It’s because embedding math equations and data requires a different paradigm

Re: ScholarTurbo: Use ChatGPT to chat with PDFs (supports GPT-4)

#16

Finally, I can have a conversation with Pepsi Gravitational Field[1] by Arnell Group, and Chicken Chicken[2]. 1. https://archive.org/details/pepsi_gravitational_field/mode/2... 2. https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf

The chicken one speaks for itself, but any context on wtf is the origin story on the Pepsi one?

Re: ScholarTurbo: Use ChatGPT to chat with PDFs (supports GPT-4)

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post #13

I've tried this and chatpdf with some Computer Aided Geometric Design mathematics theses and papers. These tools do not seem to "read" the math parts of the papers, only the text. It would be amazing to have something which could digest a bunch of papers and start to help me navigate them, but a lot of the answers I get are "I don't have enough context to help you". Is there a better tool or way to use LLMs with scho…

It's not always great, but try explainpaper [1].

I have nothing to do with it, but to me it's the best, they seem to put some real effort on it since day one.

[1] explainpaper.com

Re: ScholarTurbo: Use ChatGPT to chat with PDFs (supports GPT-4)

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If you are a ChatGPT Plus user you can also use ChatGPT 4 with the AskYourPDF plugin. The advantage is that you can just feed the PDF through your own URL and don't have to upload it to a third party.

I mean I'm assuming the plugin would still download the PDF from your url to process it and create embeddings, right? I don't see how it's any different from uploading it.
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