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Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

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Post by EagnaIonat »

BloondAndDoom wrote: post #89
EagnaIonat wrote: post #54

> 01 Plans a path with you > 02 Adapts to how you learn > 03 Patiently stays with you until you've mastered new skills 1 and 2 any of the big AI companies will do that for you. I have Claude doing this for me for a few learning areas. 3 to me feels like the Duolingo bird. IMHO, they are trying to solve the wrong thing. People who want to learn will gravitate to learning systems. If you can find a way to pull in peopl…

I started learn linear algebra and some mid-level math stuff couple of years back. While I really wanted to learn I still struggled to find a good learning path and use a product similar to Duolingo for math. Eventually I learned some, then stopped using it and then forgotten all of it. But my point is despite if me really want to learn I found it quite challenging to find learning path that I trusted to be good star…

> While I really wanted to learn I still struggled to find a good learning path

For that 3Blue1Brown is very good for this.

https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown

Better Explained as well, but focuses more on how to understand the concept so you can start to learn.

https://betterexplained.com/articles/linear-algebra-guide/

Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

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Post by sanswork »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #98
BloondAndDoom wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I started learn linear algebra and some mid-level math stuff couple of years back. While I really wanted to learn I still struggled to find a good learning path and use a product similar to Duolingo for math. Eventually I learned some, then stopped using it and then forgotten all of it. But my point is despite if me really want to learn I found it quite challenging to find learning path that I trusted to be good star…

What you're looking for is not something to help your with your goals, it's something that sells you the idea that you can achieve your goals while seemingly be unwilling to put the necessary effort in. What if it's simply impossible to learn linear algebra and mid-level math stuff by spending only 30 minutes a day? What if you can't get fit if you don't go to the gym?

It sounds like what they are looking for is a pathway. Khan used to have a really good one with the world of math pathway where you could go for 2 + 2 to Calculus in a set sequence of steps each building on the next. I've tried Khan a few times since they got rid of it and it just feels like you're all over the place and regularly missing skills it expects you to have.

They aren't trying to get fit by not going to the gym they are looking for a progressive overload program for math.

Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

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Post by sanswork »

jbstack wrote: post #97
zuzuleinen wrote: post #75

As a daily user of Anki and Math Academy, I'm very excited about how software can help us learn. Now, with AI, we can really build tools that were not possible before. I built for myself AlgoTutor[1], a CLI tool that teaches Go developers algorithmic skills and concurrency. The recent Understanding floating point[2] from Oz Nova is also a type of tutorial I want to see more often. [1] https://github.com/zuzuleinen/al…

I'd never heard of Math Academy. It seems interesting, but quite expensive ($49/month for software which is in beta). Would you say it's significantly superior to something like Khan Academy (which is free) to justify paying that much?

I tried Math academy twice and I cannot understand the hype but a lot of people seem to love it so maybe it's just not my style of learning. Each topic seemed to contain too little information to actually grasp it. It was like

Trig 1 -> This is a triangle and trig is about triangles.

Quiz 1: blah

Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

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Post by fluoridation »

baq wrote: post #100
fluoridation wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel the exact opposite. I hand-write very slowly, so having to focus on that instead of the material is literally a distraction, compared to just typing out my thoughts. The exception to this is if the focus of the learning is the writing in itself. Right now I'm learning kanji, so I need to draw them to focus on and memorize the shapes. That said, it doesn't have to be on paper. Dragging my finger on a tablet or…

Slow is half the point though! Memory has a very limited bandwidth. The other half: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/15/3/345 and a plethora of others.

>Handwriting activates a broader network of brain regions involved in motor, sensory, and cognitive processing. Typing engages fewer neural circuits, resulting in more passive cognitive engagement.

Yes, that's exactly what I mean. If I'm focusing on what my hands are doing I'm focusing less on the material proper than I'm trying to digest.

Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

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Post by pllbnk »

EagnaIonat wrote: post #54

> 01 Plans a path with you > 02 Adapts to how you learn > 03 Patiently stays with you until you've mastered new skills 1 and 2 any of the big AI companies will do that for you. I have Claude doing this for me for a few learning areas. 3 to me feels like the Duolingo bird. IMHO, they are trying to solve the wrong thing. People who want to learn will gravitate to learning systems. If you can find a way to pull in peopl…

Qwen 3.6 27B will do that for you, or any other model with a few billion parameters. I don't see any value there other than nice UI on top of an LLM.

Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

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Post by orbital-decay »

hamburgererror wrote: post #99

Please, stop destroying human everyday life experience with technology and for your personal wealth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fun_They_Had

This is one of weaker Asimov's works, in my opinion, as it merely projects pre-mass education era teaching into the future. Conflating mass education and socialization is pretty myopic when writing about the future with unlimited intelligent robots. You don't have to be taught in one-size-fits-all way to have shared experiences, it just happens to be done that way due to the scale, out of necessity, and many education systems and experiments since the 90's are trying to combine individualized learning with socialization. Unfortunately many post-WWII sci-fi predictions turned out to be self-fulfilling, because a lot of people got conditioned on them and can't imagine breaking the lore which is now a part of their lives.

Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

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Post by abcd_f »

hamburgererror wrote: post #99

Please, stop destroying human everyday life experience with technology and for your personal wealth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fun_They_Had

If said experience is subpar, e.g. when it happens with 30+ student classes when 80% dgaf, there's no harm in offering an alternative to those who wants it.

And the rest can continue enjoying everyday human life experience.

Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

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Post by lII1lIlI11ll »

hamburgererror wrote: post #99

Please, stop destroying human everyday life experience with technology and for your personal wealth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fun_They_Had

Not sure I would consider public schools a fun experience though. At least not for the majority of pupils.

Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

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Post by zuzuleinen »

jbstack wrote: post #97
zuzuleinen wrote: post #75

As a daily user of Anki and Math Academy, I'm very excited about how software can help us learn. Now, with AI, we can really build tools that were not possible before. I built for myself AlgoTutor[1], a CLI tool that teaches Go developers algorithmic skills and concurrency. The recent Understanding floating point[2] from Oz Nova is also a type of tutorial I want to see more often. [1] https://github.com/zuzuleinen/al…

I'd never heard of Math Academy. It seems interesting, but quite expensive ($49/month for software which is in beta). Would you say it's significantly superior to something like Khan Academy (which is free) to justify paying that much?

It is indeed expensive, especially considering my current location(Romania).

I have a rule of doing 20 XP per day, and I kept that rule for more than half a year. Maybe the price is also a factor, but I never managed to keep that pace for Khan Academy when I tried it. You can check their current courses here: https://www.mathacademy.com/courses

I think the topics and curriculum are more serious, and I would definitely recommend it if you have kids or are in highschool/uni. I'm 37 now and only do it to keep my brain sharp and build my mathematical intuition and I think is great for that due to its focus on practice and spaced reviews.

I think they have a 1-month trial, and you get your money back if you cancel within 30 days if you want to try it.

Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

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Post by baq »

fluoridation wrote: post #104
baq wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slow is half the point though! Memory has a very limited bandwidth. The other half: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/15/3/345 and a plethora of others.

>Handwriting activates a broader network of brain regions involved in motor, sensory, and cognitive processing. Typing engages fewer neural circuits, resulting in more passive cognitive engagement. Yes, that's exactly what I mean. If I'm focusing on what my hands are doing I'm focusing less on the material proper than I'm trying to digest.

The idea is that focus and actually working all of your hand instead of just fingers helps learning the material more efficiently even if your own perception of it does not agree.
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