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-: Okay, gonna introduce to you

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the explain it like I'm five concept.

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This is something that comes from Reddit,

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there's a really popular Reddit,

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it's called Explain Like I'm Five, or ELI5,

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and it actually works really well with prompting as well.

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So if you have something that you don't really understand

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and you ask GPT-4 to explain it like you're five,

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it will try and break it down

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into a pretty interesting summary.

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This is something on quantum superposition,

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this is a Wikipedia article,

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and I'm just gonna paste this across,

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so paste that in there and hit Submit,

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and see what it comes up with.

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And sometimes it doesn't quite get the wording,

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so it's not exactly something

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you could explain to a five-year-old,

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but I think generally it takes the understanding

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that you need it in simpler terms.

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And here it's I think doing a good job,

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so imagine you have a magic ball

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that can't be red and blue at the same time, right?

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And then it kind of talks

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about basically quantum entanglement here.

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And so you can see here that we ran out of tokens,

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so you can either just say, you know,

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continue here, and then you'll get some more,

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continue writing it,

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or you could run it again with a larger token length.

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And this works really well for papers,

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it works really well for industry jargon,

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social media like pop culture type stuff.

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It's a super useful technique.

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You also don't have to say explain it like I'm five,

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you could also, you know, say, explain like I'm a teenager,

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explain like I'm a college graduate

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and flex around with whatever it is

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that you're trying to understand.

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And often I find asking it to explain it to you

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in different levels will help you understand

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and piece together the fundamentals.