--- title: How to Actually Understand Dense Machine Learning Papers... description: Using Yann LeCun's LeJEPA paper as an example, Jonno Whittaker walks through his process for how to read an academic paper with an LLM. He sets up the needed... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-actually-understand-dense-machine-learning-papers---solveit-free-lesson-xodbofjoj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to Actually Understand Dense Machine Learning Papers - Solveit free lesson | daily.dev og:description: Using Yann LeCun's LeJEPA paper as an example, Jonno Whittaker walks through his process for how to read an academic paper with an LLM. He sets up the needed... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-actually-understand-dense-machine-learning-papers---solveit-free-lesson-xodbofjoj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/xOdbOfJoj.png og:image:alt: How to Actually Understand Dense Machine Learning Papers - Solveit free lesson og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to Actually Understand Dense Machine Learning Papers - Solveit free lesson **[Jeremy Howard](https://daily.dev/sources/howardjeremyp)** · 17 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Using Yann LeCun's LeJEPA paper as an example, Jonno Whittaker walks through his process for how to read an academic paper with an LLM. He sets up the needed context, loads the paper, and then asks for summaries and explanations. Tools allow him to explore the source code repo from within the LLM environment. He concludes by building a simple interactive demo in order to develop intuition for the ideas in the paper. 00:00 - Set up context 00:44 - Background on the paper 09:56 - Ask for summaries and targeted explanations 11:19 - Try the code from the paper 13:44 - Use file tools to explore the source repo 15:06 - Build a minimal interactive demo to develop intuition 17:00 - Iterate This was part of a lesson in the How to Solve It With Code fast.ai course. Find out more here: https://solve.it.com/ ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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