Florian Haas6d ago

When you learn something by reading, does it help you to also have a rephrased version of what you're reading at your disposal?

A — Yes, reading something restated in different words always helps me.
B — It might help me get a better understanding, but only if it actually qualifies as a summary (i.e. highlights main takeaways and is significantly shorter than the main text).
C — No, doesn't help at all.
D — Something else (add comment).

Boosts for reach appreciated!

A
20%
B
50%
C
15%
D
15%
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Show threadMartin Seeger
@xahteiwi If I don’t get it, usually some context is missing for me. That is why using AI to explain things based on the original docs helps me a lot: my question guides it to find the context/ connection I am missing. A different phrasing just bores me.
Mar 18 at 9:26pmWeb
Show threadFlorian Haas6d ago
@masek Okay, but do I understand correctly that for it to be useful to you, you have to be able to ask a model questions of your own? As in, a "summarize this" button that invokes a prefabricated prompt wouldn't help you at all?
Show threadMartin Seeger6d ago

@xahteiwi Yes, the new "phrasing" has to be build on a prompt / question of my own. I can usually point to a part where my problem is.

Usually it is not that I did not understand what was said but can't puzzle it together in a way that in my head it fits.

Usually it turns out in the manual there was something that was assumed / implied and just wasn't there in my case.

It is not about summarizing but context.

I try to keep my eye out for an example in the near future to explain it better.