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Re:The Illustrated Transformer by throw310822 on Monday December 22, 2025 @03:35PM (#46358724)
Have you tried asking e.g. Claude to explain it to you? None of the usual resources worked for me, until I had a discussion with Claude where I could ask questions about everything that I didn't get.
Re:The Illustrated Transformer by sakesun on Monday December 22, 2025 @06:55PM (#46360726)
Perhaps we have already reached ASI. :)
Re:The Illustrated Transformer by throw310822 on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @02:42AM (#46363280)
In some respects, yes. There is no single human being with a general knowledge as vast as that of a SOTA LLM, or able to speak as many languages. Claude knows about transformers more than enough to explain them to a layperson, elucidating specific points and resolving doubts. As someone who learns more easily by prodding other people's knowledge rather than from static explanations, I find LLMs extremely useful.