Re:Terence Tao, "Machine Assisted Proof" [video]
by thatguysaguy on Thursday February 15, 2024 @04:09AM
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Reverse dictionary is a great one yeah. I think I've used it for resolving a tip-of-my tongue thing several times. For language learning I'm a bit more wary. A few times I've asked it for help with Chinese, and when I ask one of my native speaker friends they'll tell me it wasn't quite right.
If you wander off of that knowledge sphere, and you are not sufficiently knowledgeable yourself about the topic, it can tell you some really stupid stuff.
Nonetheless, I do use it quite regularly in everyday life, as it is basically the best reverse dictionary (that works for any language) there is. For work (programming), I didn’t find a better use case than sometimes passing it a list of stuff, giving it an example on the first element on what I want, and using it to generate it for the rest of the elements.
But that is <1% of what I do each day.