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Re: Show HN: I made a cheap alternative to college-level math & physics tutoring

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Post by gfodor »

jsqu99 wrote: post #23

I am 53 and cramming while relearning linear algebra, statistics, and calculus, after a 30 year break from college, in preparation for my first semester at GA Tech's online MS CS program in the fall. I love this! But...before I check it out, I'm going to be surprised if it competes with the already-incredible free help i've gotten from chatgpt-3.5. Recently I asked it the following (where it made a mistake that confu…

Stop whatever you're doing right now and go sign up for $20/mo at claude.ai and use Claude Opus. There's something like 20 or 30 IQ points you can add to your experience by just doing this simple step.

Re: Show HN: I made a cheap alternative to college-level math & physics tutoring

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Post by CamperBob2 »

eddd-ddde wrote: post #57
PheonixPharts wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who has used linear algebra, statistics and calculus as part of my day-to-day work for years, I would be very cautious of relying on ChatGPT as your "tutor". Occasionally I've tried to substitute ChatGPT for the shelf of reference books in my office and nearly always had poor results. The trouble is that the outputs of these models, by their very nature, look convincing . Even as an expert it takes a fair…

What about gpt 4 actually backing up answers with code and executing it? I found that really helps.

It can still fool you, as it did with me the other day when I asked it some gas law-related questions and it failed on some unit conversion issues ( https://chat.openai.com/share/b6c21083-d99c-41f8-aeda-4b2c75... ). When the answer I got was unrealistic, I tried walking it all the way back to the basics, and was able to confront it with its error and 'teach' it where it went wrong. Wrong but still seriously impressive.

When this thing gets 10x better it will be godlike... for better or worse.

Re: Show HN: I made a cheap alternative to college-level math & physics tutoring

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Post by julianh65 »

I'm going to give this a go, I've been self studying linear algebra, and there are certain questions that I can't seem to find good answers or explanations to online that ChatGPT or Claude cannot answer sufficiently. The one concern I have with this, is the async nature of it. One of the reasons I like using ChatGPT or Claude (or a real human if I can find one) to learn is because I can ask clarifying questions and try to relate what they're saying in real time to another concept I'm familiar with. Curious to try it out but I think that an important part of making the videos good is that the student / learning needs to provide a good prompt so that the response can be customized to directly address their area of confusion.

Re: Show HN: I made a cheap alternative to college-level math & physics tutoring

#85

Post by quantxx »

franklin_p_dyer wrote: post #83

I'm curious - do you have any plans for doing "quality control" as more tutors join your site? What will you do if someone joins as a tutor and is giving incorrect/misleading answers to students, and getting paid for it?

Somethings I can immediately think of, but definitely not enough to address the issue.

1. Anonymous student ratings, if the solutions are obviously unclear or unhelpful to the student. A history feature would need to be there so the student can go back and mark a question as unhelpful or wrong even if he realises this after a week.

2. You'd need to separate unclear or unhelpful answers from plain wrong maybe? I don't know what's the line you'd need the draw but if an answer is deemed to be false, the student would be eligible for some in-app credit that he can redeem towards his next question/subscription.

3. Random cross verification of answers? Other teachers would get to judge a random answer from another teacher and provide feedback. Students would be notified automatically if an answer is revised in this way, while also providing the correct solution. Teachers can have an infraction counter or something for the same.

Re: Show HN: I made a cheap alternative to college-level math & physics tutoring

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Post by bibliotekka »

jsqu99 wrote: post #23

I am 53 and cramming while relearning linear algebra, statistics, and calculus, after a 30 year break from college, in preparation for my first semester at GA Tech's online MS CS program in the fall. I love this! But...before I check it out, I'm going to be surprised if it competes with the already-incredible free help i've gotten from chatgpt-3.5. Recently I asked it the following (where it made a mistake that confu…

This is the most inspiring thing I've heard today!

Re: Show HN: I made a cheap alternative to college-level math & physics tutoring

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Post by copperx »

gfodor wrote: post #81
jsqu99 wrote: post #23

I am 53 and cramming while relearning linear algebra, statistics, and calculus, after a 30 year break from college, in preparation for my first semester at GA Tech's online MS CS program in the fall. I love this! But...before I check it out, I'm going to be surprised if it competes with the already-incredible free help i've gotten from chatgpt-3.5. Recently I asked it the following (where it made a mistake that confu…

Stop whatever you're doing right now and go sign up for $20/mo at claude.ai and use Claude Opus. There's something like 20 or 30 IQ points you can add to your experience by just doing this simple step.

Why not ChatGPT 4?

Re: Show HN: I made a cheap alternative to college-level math & physics tutoring

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Post by ykonstant »

SuperHeavy256 wrote: post #44
jsqu99 wrote: post #23

I am 53 and cramming while relearning linear algebra, statistics, and calculus, after a 30 year break from college, in preparation for my first semester at GA Tech's online MS CS program in the fall. I love this! But...before I check it out, I'm going to be surprised if it competes with the already-incredible free help i've gotten from chatgpt-3.5. Recently I asked it the following (where it made a mistake that confu…

I wish there was a Discord community of people who are teaching themselves Mathematics with the help of books, videos, etc.

There are many such people in the biggest math Discord server: https://discord.com/channels/268882317391429632/525440994242...

Re: Show HN: I made a cheap alternative to college-level math & physics tutoring

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Post by cosinetau »

julianh65 wrote: post #84

I'm going to give this a go, I've been self studying linear algebra, and there are certain questions that I can't seem to find good answers or explanations to online that ChatGPT or Claude cannot answer sufficiently. The one concern I have with this, is the async nature of it. One of the reasons I like using ChatGPT or Claude (or a real human if I can find one) to learn is because I can ask clarifying questions and t…

Hi - math student here too. Have you asked any image AIs for graphical representations of these Linear Algebra problems? How did those attempts go?

Asking because visualizing the problem scenarios was something that did not come right away for me, and I had to spend a lot of time in the tutoring center to build it. I believe the right prompt might yield the right thing.

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