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Ask HN: How do you use LLMs for your research?

A Hacker News user asks how others use large language models (LLMs) to support research in unfamiliar domains such as trading and machine learning, seeking methods to find optimal solutions for clearly defined problems.

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| |||||||||||| 1 point by | I'm doing several researches such as trading, ML which are domains that I'm not really familiar for. however, I think problems I want to solve is relatively clear. In these cases, how do you guys use LLMs for them to find kinda "optimal" solution ? | ||||||||||| |

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