It feels the way to learn in the age of AI should be totally different. Eg I came across https://github.com/AsyncFuncAI/deepwiki-open and it's amazing at helping you quickly understand a repo. What other tools like this exist for github repos / books / PDFs / whitepapers / etc?
Ask HN: AI tools to help you learn faster (GitHub, books, PDFs)
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Re: Ask HN: AI tools to help you learn faster (GitHub, books, PDFs)
#2It’s not really a specific tool, but I came across another comment on HN where someone used an LLM to generate Anki cards from textbooks. I’ve been doing this with Claude Sonnet 3.7 and it’s been very effective.
Re: Ask HN: AI tools to help you learn faster (GitHub, books, PDFs)
#3You could try my project Plandex (https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex) — you can use it to explore/understand/chat with just about any codebase, including massive ones up to 20M tokens.
Here's an example, chatting with the SQLite codebase to understand how transactions are implemented: https://plandex.ai/_next/static/media/plandex-sqlite.0ee6cb2...
Re: Ask HN: AI tools to help you learn faster (GitHub, books, PDFs)
#4You could try my project Plandex ( https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex ) — you can use it to explore/understand/chat with just about any codebase, including massive ones up to 20M tokens. Here's an example, chatting with the SQLite codebase to understand how transactions are implemented: https://plandex.ai/_next/static/media/plandex-sqlite.0ee6cb2...
very interesting, thanks for sharing
Re: Ask HN: AI tools to help you learn faster (GitHub, books, PDFs)
#5It’s not really a specific tool, but I came across another comment on HN where someone used an LLM to generate Anki cards from textbooks. I’ve been doing this with Claude Sonnet 3.7 and it’s been very effective.
I think Karpathy did that in one of his videos!
Re: Ask HN: AI tools to help you learn faster (GitHub, books, PDFs)
#6I built a free tool https://rockyai.me/ to chat with web pages and it supports pdfs, github code in a PR, long HN threads (like who is hiring, etc). Mostly built this because I was tired of copy pasting content into chat gpt all the time.
Re: Ask HN: AI tools to help you learn faster (GitHub, books, PDFs)
#7Remnote, a note-taking and spaced repetition app, has possibly the best integration and application of AI I've experienced, on par with GitHub Copilot:
I'm a happily paying subscriber. Totally recommend it. They don't use AI simply for its own sake, as a primary selling point, but as a tool to make the base product better -- I'd certainly be using it (and often do) without the AI integration anyway.
Just a few examples in my case:
- I'm studying spanish. During tutoring sessions, I can create a flashcard for a new word or phrase by typing in the editor the spanish word, followed by ==, followed by tab, to generate an english translation; or vice versa, from english to spanish. I can make it double-sided by typing ==- I'm studying ML papers. I can upload a PDF, or just a link to a PDF, and it's stored. I can highlight, annotate, make notes about it. I can generate summaries (if I'd like, though I prefer not to), or ask the integrated AI for more information about parts of the paper, or to explain things I don't understand.
- I make math flashcards for certain concepts and equations. I can write something like "partial derivative of the cross-entropy loss function == $$", then press tab, and it generates and renders a latex representation of the concept. I can very easily create "fill in the blank" (called "cloze deletions") spaces, even in the latex in the equation.
I also recommend the youtube videos as well. The release notes are really well done, and they develop new features extremely quickly and with great quality: https://www.youtube.com/@RemNote
Just an amazing tool perfectly augmented by AI. (I swear Remnote isn't paying me or rewarding me for this -- just a huge supporter.)