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Re: Show HN: I wished for a site with a growing list of math problems, I built it

#41
>At its core, it is a math PDF extraction engine. The engine has some machine learning going on behind the scenes to extract math problems in LaTeX from any image or document.

I would like more to see curated hand picked math problems instead of mass imported problems from various sources. Along with solutions and detailed explanations and links to the theory needed to understand and solve the problem.

Re: Show HN: I wished for a site with a growing list of math problems, I built it

#43
post #40

I awkwardly typed a solution on my phone, and submitted. Then it told me I needed to log in. Wasted effort. Should tell you sooner (when you start typing?) or not require login.

yeah that must have been a bad experience. will fix this.

Re: Show HN: I wished for a site with a growing list of math problems, I built it

#48

>At its core, it is a math PDF extraction engine. The engine has some machine learning going on behind the scenes to extract math problems in LaTeX from any image or document. I would like more to see curated hand picked math problems instead of mass imported problems from various sources. Along with solutions and detailed explanations and links to the theory needed to understand and solve the problem.

thank you for the feedback, i will see if some sort of curation as a feature is possible.

Re: Show HN: I wished for a site with a growing list of math problems, I built it

#49

Why don't you actually put effort into actually writing out the problems? I'm not going to do your work for you and I'm not going to pat you on the back for scraping good content in a sloppy way. So here's a really good example of the problem with what you're doing. https://teachyourselfmath.app/problem?id=18 I really hope to see this improve because the idea is good. The execution is not

I see that he's getting downvoted, but there are minor errors indeed. Problem 31 ( https://teachyourselfmath.app/problem?id=31 ) doesn't list the problem inputs, for example.

an update: this is fixed
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