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Popular Themes in r/explainlikeimfive
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Pain & Anger
: "ELI5 Why can’t LLM’s like ChatGPT calculate a confidence score when providing an answer to your question and simply reply “I don’t know” instead of hallucinating an answer?"
16 posts
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Advice Requests
: "ELI5: How did they lay the trans-Atlantic cable?"
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#3
Money Talk
: "ELI5: Airline Prices - why is it so expensive within the U.S. vs. so cheap Within Europe"
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Solution Requests
: "ELI5: What engineering breakthrough allowed computers to transition from punchcards to input from a keyboard?"
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Popular Topics in r/explainlikeimfive
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Eli5
: "Eli5: How did a few months of economic shutdown due to COVID cause literally everything to be unaffordable for years?"
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Language
: "ELI5: When talking about Languages, people sometimes say Language A understands Language B but Language B doesn’t understand Language A. How can that be?"
4 posts
#3
Currency
3 posts
#4
Heart
: "ELI5 How can someone have all four Heart arteries completely clogged?"
2 posts
#5
Blood
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#6
Supplements
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Evolution
2 posts
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Thunder
2 posts
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Cheats
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Electricity
1 post
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