David Colarusso on Nostr: I feel like a fun frame for teaching LLMs would be to teach students how slide rules ...
I feel like a fun frame for teaching LLMs would be to teach students how slide rules worked so they can get a feel for what they lost and gained by only ever having calculators. Then compare and contrast this with what they think "AI" will do.
FWIW, here's a very short slide rule explainer:
https://mastodon.social/@Colarusso/109297312998326014Published at
2024-03-29 13:47:41Event JSON
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