1. Find big scary equation that's hard to parse 2. Latex OCR it with Mathpix 3. Ask ChatGPT to break it down into heavily commented Python

Jun 26, 2023 · 12:39 PM UTC

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Replying to @Sirupsen
Simon I think you just made reading papers 100x easier for me 🤯 TIL of MathPix
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There's at least one open-source one that's just a pip package, but MathPix was super easy and free for 10/month
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Replying to @Sirupsen
how do you know it’s right? Especially when you didn’t understand the equation at first glance?
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You don't, but in my short experience it's been good! If you implement something based on the output, you'll notice it soon enough. Overall I'd judge the accuracy as better than my own, e.g. I'd be pretty likely to miss the F in the subscript for the X - HC there
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Replying to @Sirupsen
Not to be toxic but should probably just learn to read it? This is not a time efficient solution. The efficient solution is to learn.
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Replying to @Sirupsen @karpathy
What is the OCR tool and what is the output of the OCR?
Replying to @Sirupsen
Yep! Extremely helpful pipeline. You can also of course ask it to return a breakdown of everything *in latex*, which can be really nice. You can effectively use it to write a baby version of some paper you are trying to understand :)
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Replying to @Sirupsen @karpathy
😁👍. Made me smile
Replying to @Sirupsen
😏when they told me there were to many tabs and my response, well I guess I'm stupid to proof the work but you're right you will probably never need to parse AND cherry pick your solutions again. LMFAO .
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