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Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by dougmwne on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:16AM (#35629204)
I had a similar experience recently having GPT-4 teach me double entry bookkeeping for a project I am ramping up on. I understood it in a vague sense from some Google, but wouldn’t be able to talk to a room full of accountants in an intelligent way. I was feeling like I needed to read a book or take a class, but tried using GPT-4 as an interactive tutor instead.

After about an hour of delving into details, examples, history and analogies, I get it on a deep level that would have normally taken many days to develop. Most of the material I found before took an approach of “just memorize this” while I was able to get more parsimonious core concepts that were hidden behind 500 years of practice.

Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by quonn on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:35AM (#35629492)
Teach yourself French in 10 days. It includes 3 audio books which make it really easy, too.
Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by Animats on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @01:25PM (#35630824)
That's a good case. There's a huge amount of material available on double-entry bookkeeping, and there's a consensus on how it works. So a LLM can handle that.
Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by drc500free on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @08:18PM (#35634907)
That's great! I didn't really grok accrual accounting until I realized that non cash "accounts" are explanations for why there is extra cash or missing cash.

When I stopped thinking about an asset as "a truck" and started thinking of it as "an explanation that cash is missing because we bought a truck" it all clicked.

Before that I thought of assets and revenues as good, and liabilities and expenses as bad. I couldn't make sense of why an asset turns into a liability instead of into a revenue. It's similar to learning intro physics and trying to understand how anything moves if every force generates an opposite force.