Ask a bare LLM to multiply two big numbers and it'll confidently get it wrong. But ask an LLM on the web and it gets it right. What's the difference? In my latest post, I dig further into the harness, what it can do and why it matters: open.substack.com/pub/tidydesi...
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Hadley Wickham
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Your LLM can’t math (and that’s ok) tidydesign.substack.com
Your LLM can’t math (and that’s ok) tidydesign.substack.com
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Ask a bare LLM to multiply two big numbers and it'll confidently get it wrong. But ask an LLM on the web and it gets it right. What's the difference? In my latest post, I dig further into the harness, what it can do and why it matters: open.substack.com/pub/tidydesi...
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I've been thinking that not only did I learn to code before AI, I learned to code before StackOverflow, and even before the internet. Does anyone else remember implementing computer games by typing code out of an Usborne book?
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