I use LLMs to understand syntax in classic literature. For example, my brain trips over this sentence: “Auctioneers talk wild, not but what Trumbull has made money”. I can’t interpret the “not but what” part. ChatGPT explained its meaning as close to “I’m not denying that Trumbull has made money”.
That’s a simple example, but I often ask follow up questions to learn some general knowledge.
Without ChatGPT, I would have put middlemarch down (yes I’m reading it lol). Now I’m halfway done. And it’s not like I have to prompt GPT all the time. It only took a few exchanges with ChatGPT before my brain started to make better guesses on its own, and I could read enjoyably without any aide. ChatGPT got me “unstuck”.
Yes to all this! (and blog post coming when I finished Bleak House). In the first couple chapters of Bleak House I was barely holding on and I asked GPT to summarize the chapter I'd just read to make sure I got what it was trying to say. Now, maybe a third of the way through the book, I don't feel the need to do that, but I do think doing it in the early chapters was very beneficial.
Coincidentally, I am also reading Bleak House, and for many of the same reasons described here. Skimpole is already one of the funniest characters I’ve ever read.
Deep in Bleak House myself and surprised at how funny it can be! I'd by lying if I said the sentence structure initially made me feel dumb, but now 250 pages in, I feel like I'm getting better!
I use LLMs to understand syntax in classic literature. For example, my brain trips over this sentence: “Auctioneers talk wild, not but what Trumbull has made money”. I can’t interpret the “not but what” part. ChatGPT explained its meaning as close to “I’m not denying that Trumbull has made money”.
That’s a simple example, but I often ask follow up questions to learn some general knowledge.
Without ChatGPT, I would have put middlemarch down (yes I’m reading it lol). Now I’m halfway done. And it’s not like I have to prompt GPT all the time. It only took a few exchanges with ChatGPT before my brain started to make better guesses on its own, and I could read enjoyably without any aide. ChatGPT got me “unstuck”.
Yes to all this! (and blog post coming when I finished Bleak House). In the first couple chapters of Bleak House I was barely holding on and I asked GPT to summarize the chapter I'd just read to make sure I got what it was trying to say. Now, maybe a third of the way through the book, I don't feel the need to do that, but I do think doing it in the early chapters was very beneficial.
Coincidentally, I am also reading Bleak House, and for many of the same reasons described here. Skimpole is already one of the funniest characters I’ve ever read.
Deep in Bleak House myself and surprised at how funny it can be! I'd by lying if I said the sentence structure initially made me feel dumb, but now 250 pages in, I feel like I'm getting better!
I used to think Bleak House was amazing, but reread it after a few decades and got annoyed by the stereotypes and "characters" and gave up.
I’m digging it so far but the characters are a bit flat.
What poets or poetry collections are you reading?
Currently? None. But I'll be taking on the collected works of Robert Frost at some point this year.