Explain a concept at three levels of depth
Explains one concept for a child, a curious adult and a practitioner, so you can climb from intuition to detail.
Explain {{CONCEPT}} at three levels:
Level 1, for a curious 12-year-old: 3 to 4 sentences, one analogy, no jargon.
Level 2, for a smart adult outside the field: one paragraph with the key mechanism and a concrete example.
Level 3, for a practitioner: the precise definition, how it works step by step, common variants, and a typical mistake practitioners make.
Make sure the three levels are consistent: Level 1 should be a simplified but not wrong version of Level 3.
Example of the depth I want for Level 1: "A vaccine is like a wanted poster for germs. It shows your body what the germ looks like, so it can catch the real one quickly."Example output
Child: Attention is how the computer decides which words matter most for the next word. Adult: Each word gets a score for how relevant every other word is... Expert: Scaled dot-product of queries and keys, softmax, weighted sum of values...
How to use
Read Level 1, then try to explain Level 2 out loud before reading it. Works well for technical topics like how transformers or attention work in AI models.
Why it works
Layered explanations let you build intuition before detail, which makes the hard version easier to absorb. The example sets the tone for Level 1 better than a description would.