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Why not look it up? It means crazy.


I googled "bananas heavy" but I didn't get much


Perfect use case for chatgpt or other llm


Are you serious? It's the primary use for a dictionary. And did you try ChatGPT? It suggested bananas heavy meant bananas are physically heavy because they are ripe.


Yet, when I put "What's the meaning of "bananas heavy"?" in perplexity, it explains it perfectly well.

One of the easiest things for a LLM to "memorize" is the dictionary. And it makes for a much more flexible one.

It even suggest additional queries where it explains why "bananas" is used on that phrase. The only problem I found on the query is that perplexity seems to be de-emphasizing its sources, what IMO is bananas. It just pushes the site into direct competition with ChatGPT and removes most of its value.


dictionaries do not provide much context that would un-confuse someone who has not come into contact with a colloquialism.


The context is bananas means crazy. Dictionaries provide this context.


It would not have helped me in this situation. My assumption was "bananas heavy" was a phrase I was unfamiliar with, so I was trying to look that up. "Bananas heavy" is not in the dictionary,

I fully understood that bananas can mean crazy, but what I do not understand is the sentence and the context. I never would have used the word with that meaning like this.

Who would say something like this? I still don't understand why a person would say "bananas heavy" to mean "YouTube embeds are bloated". It just sounds so awkward and bizarre.


bananas == crazy; (x heavy) == crazy heavy


Yes I'm serious. Here's the prompt I would use: "what does bananas mean in this sentence: YouTube embeds are bananas heavy and it’s fixable"

Put it in google, and it doesn't give anything useful

Put it in an LLM, and you get a correct answer because LLMs can understand full sentences


LLMs don't actually "understand" anything. They're just better at parsing and manipulating language.




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