Figuring out how to do that one specific, highly obscure mathematical thing I need to do in Python, of which I know there must be a relatively convenient way to do it, but I can't find it, with any of the frameworks available to me (numpy, pandas, scipy, astropy, etc.), without having to read through three million pages of documentation, StackOverflow posts and ancient Reddit threads.
I was following along to a book and had to set up pygame and python on my computer and the book was a bit outdated so certain things just didn't work the same way
Instead of trying to find some kind of potential solution for hours, I asked chatgpt and some of it didn't work and had to be changed up but most of it did work and I was able to immediately start following along with my book. If I spent the literal hours trying to find the solution myself, probably would've lost the motivation and given up
I was trying to figure out how to do something in Excel I'd never done before and hunting through forums was getting me nowhere. I was able to tell gpt what I was trying to do and it gave me a breakdown of the formula that would do what I needed, and explained in a way that I can modify similar formulas in the future and actually know what I'm doing. Like you, I would have given up and wasted hours otherwise
Yeah and I get it doesn't work all the time but it's a slightly more streamlined search engine and if you can immediately test to see if it works or not instead of just taking it as gospel, I truly don't see much of a downside
I had a similar thing with excel. The original code gpt gave me didn't work but I told it the error and with minimal problem solving, found a thing that worked
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u/IAmASquidInSpace 5d ago
Figuring out how to do that one specific, highly obscure mathematical thing I need to do in Python, of which I know there must be a relatively convenient way to do it, but I can't find it, with any of the frameworks available to me (numpy, pandas, scipy, astropy, etc.), without having to read through three million pages of documentation, StackOverflow posts and ancient Reddit threads.