I was reading the papers listed at https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall22/cos597G/ to learn about LLMs. My background’s in physics, not ml/cs, so while I able to understand the mathematics for the most part, I was getting hung up on the jargon at times. I found myself repeatedly taking screenshots of a page and uploading it on gemini, asking it to simplify the language. Doing that so many times manually sucks for more than one reason, so I ended up writing something which does that automatically for every page. It turned out to be more useful than I expected: for example reading this paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.02080 would normally have taken me about 2-3hr, but now I was able to go through it in ~20min, mostly by clicking the next and return keys on my keyboard. Just putting it here in case someone else finds it useful too. https://eli5app.net/ (use on your laptop it’s barely functional right now and be gentle already way over supabase’s free tier limits)PS: Also unexpectedly useful for reading philosophy works which are unnecessarily verbose, usually full of unclear fancy language: https://eli5app.net/pirate/Western%20Philosophy. never expected reading plato’s apology would be this fun. also found it useful for reading abstract math stuff like vakil’s rising sea which I always wanted to read. It somehow becomes more fun,‘easier’(grounded?) when reading it along w the eli5 summaries.
PS: Was also able to read all of pg essays pretty quickly this way too entirely by clicking return,return,”ah I see”,cmd+back on repeat.