Comment by tayo42
1 year ago
Rephrasing can be beneficial. It can make things clearer to understand and learn from. Like in math something like khan academy or the 3blue 1 brown YouTube channel isn't presenting anything new, just rephrasing math in a different way that makes it easier for some to understand.
If llms could take the giant overwhelming manual in my car and get out the answer to what oil to use, that woukd be useful and not new information
I have to protest. A lot of 3b1b is new. Not the math itself, but the animated graphical presentation is. That's where the value from his channel comes in. He provides a lot of tools to visualize problems in ways that haven't been done before.
I guess the way I think of the visualizations and video as a whole as a type of rephrasing. He's not the first person to try to visualize math concepts
>If llms could take the giant overwhelming manual in my car and get out the answer to what oil to use, that woukd be useful and not new information
You can literally just google that or use the appendix that's probably at the back of the manual. It's also probably stamped on the engine oil cap. It also probably doesn't matter and you can just use 10w40.
Illustrative examples are illustrative, not literal.
I'm just reusing the example in the comment I responded to. Fill in something else then...