When I’ve tried listening to YouTube videos explaining, say, Attention Is All You Need, I find that I cannot do it passively at all. The first 10 or so minutes I’m nodding along, folding laundry or doing dishes, then the presenter says something like “by reifying this tensor against the priors I was just talking about, we’re able to—“ and I have to pause, rewind a couple minutes, grab a piece of paper and actually engage with what’s going on.
I have to imagine listening to raw papers (not even someone like Andrei Karpathy interpreting and presenting it) would be even more difficult. I don’t know if there’s an easy way to passively consume academic literature at all. If it’s important stuff, it will usually be pretty challenging.
I have to imagine listening to raw papers (not even someone like Andrei Karpathy interpreting and presenting it) would be even more difficult. I don’t know if there’s an easy way to passively consume academic literature at all. If it’s important stuff, it will usually be pretty challenging.