Study mode

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Post by meetpateltech » Tue, Jul 29, 2025, 5:01 PM UTC

Re: Study mode

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Post by hahahacorn » Tue, Jul 29, 2025, 5:09 PM UTC

Ah, the advancing of humanity. A bespoke professor-quality instructor in everyone’s pocket (or local library) available 24/7.

Happy Tuesday!

Re: Study mode

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Post by volkk » Tue, Jul 29, 2025, 5:11 PM UTC

Not seeing it on my account, guess the roll out is actively happening (or gradual)?

Re: Study mode

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Post by swader999 » Tue, Jul 29, 2025, 5:12 PM UTC

Why do I still feel like I'll be paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for my children's education when all they're going to do is all learn through AI anyway.

Re: Study mode

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Post by jryio » Tue, Jul 29, 2025, 5:12 PM UTC

I would like to see randomized control group studies using study mode.

Does it offer meaningful benefits to students over self directed study?

Does it out perform students who are "learning how to learn"?

What affect does allowing students to make mistakes have compared to being guided through what to review?

I would hope Study Mode would produce flash card prompts and quantize information for usage in spaced repetition tools like Mochi [1] or Anki.

See Andy's talk here [2]

[1] https://mochi.cards

[2] https://andymatuschak.org/hmwl/

Re: Study mode

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 29, 2025, 5:16 PM UTC

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Re: Study mode

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Post by LeftHandPath » Tue, Jul 29, 2025, 5:16 PM UTC

Interesting. I don’t use GPT for code but I have been using it to grade answers to behavioral and system design interview questions, lately. Sometimes it hallucinates, but the gists are usually correct.

I would not use it if it was for something with a strictly correct answer.

Re: Study mode

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Post by Spivak » Tue, Jul 29, 2025, 5:17 PM UTC

hahahacorn wrote: post #2

Ah, the advancing of humanity. A bespoke professor-quality instructor in everyone’s pocket (or local library) available 24/7. Happy Tuesday!

Professor might be overselling it but lecturer for undergrad and intro graduate courses for sure.

Re: Study mode

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Post by nemomarx » Tue, Jul 29, 2025, 5:18 PM UTC

swader999 wrote: post #4

Why do I still feel like I'll be paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for my children's education when all they're going to do is all learn through AI anyway.

Well, you're generally paying for the 8 hour daycare part before the education, right? That still needs human staff around unless you're doing distance learning

e: if you mean university, fair. that'll be an interesting transition. I guess then you pay for the sports team and amenities?

Re: Study mode

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Post by righthand » Tue, Jul 29, 2025, 5:18 PM UTC

jryio wrote: post #5

I would like to see randomized control group studies using study mode. Does it offer meaningful benefits to students over self directed study? Does it out perform students who are "learning how to learn"? What affect does allowing students to make mistakes have compared to being guided through what to review? I would hope Study Mode would produce flash card prompts and quantize information for usage in spaced repetit…

It doesn’t do any of that, it just captures the student market more.

They want a student to use it and say “I wouldn’t have learned anything without study mode”.

This also allows them to fill their data coffers more with bleeding edge education. “Please input the data you are studying and we will summarize it for you.”