Why llms are suprisingly good at math, and what it means to process language.
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Are they good at math, though? I can get ChatGPT to add numbers. But every division and other operation seems to give a wrong result almost every time.
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So, a few weeks ago I was cooking and needed 3 liters of water. My largest measuring cup is 500ml and I couldn’t be bothered to fill it 6 times so I had the brilliant idea of asking chatgpt how high should I fill a pot that’s 22cm in diameter to get 3 liters because I thought it’d be faster than doing the math myself. It told me 7 meters.
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Lol. I hope you took that as an invitation to excercise your brain. I mean not everyone needs to know this... But it's fairly simple maths. A cylinder has a volume of πr²h. So it's 3000/(3.141111) or bit less than 8cm.
The smart method is to use your kitchen scale and just weigh stuff. That's usually easier and qucker with most ingredients. And you generalky get less measuring cups dirty. Kinda depends on who wrote your recipes, though. Mine usually come with measurings in weight. Whereas very old recipe books and American people often measure in volume. And the kitchen scale won't really help there, unless you memorize the density of flour and butter 😅
And I got pots with a liter scale engraved inside. That's also very nice to have.
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I did end up doing it myself. Only tried chatgpt because that’s where I got the recipe I was following and thought it’d save me some time. I didn’t expect it to screw up a simple division. Weighting the water seems awfully cumbersome, though.
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More importantly, what was the recipe and was it any good?
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It was good but unfortunately I didn’t save it because I had no intention of eating it again. Nothing to do with the quality of the recipe, I just had to get rid of 300g of fettuccine and half a kilo of ground pork and I don’t think I’ll be in that situation again. It basically told me to season the pork with Italian seasoning, chop onion, garlic and tomatoes, throw everything in a pan with the pasta and top with mozarella.
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Thanks for the answer! I hadn’t thought about asking for recipes based on the specific ingredients you have left.
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