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

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

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Post by j45 »

pllbnk wrote: post #105
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.

You don't have to see the value - the learners have to benefit, being the majority, they usually won't be setting it all up like you are implying on their computers.

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

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Post by embedding-shape »

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

Care to enlighten the rest of us how this is at all related to the submission? Is it because it's AI it is "destroying human everyday life experience"? Seems this company is trying to find a healthier (and better) way of using AI, unless I misunderstand something?

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

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Post by j45 »

yuanBuilds wrote: post #12

I do think Andrew is the right person doing this. Someone mentioned that the return of financial outcome is not good in edTech, and this is exactly why backing by Coursera is a huge advantage. Education-related product is slow, and it needs patience. The concern, though, is that how to achieve those 3 thesis. Do they train/fine-turn their own model? according to my own experience, the current models are not well trai…

I remember reading that Education is a trillion dollar market, so i'm not sure about the financial outcome being poor, only the state of how that money is spent and obligated can differ greatly.

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

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Post by Douger »

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…

Massive thank you for the introduction to Math Academy. After a quick look I signed up and it is fantastic - exactly what I wanted.

I'll take a look at AlgoTutor in the future :)

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

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Post by sseagull »

j45 wrote: post #123
yuanBuilds wrote: post #12

I do think Andrew is the right person doing this. Someone mentioned that the return of financial outcome is not good in edTech, and this is exactly why backing by Coursera is a huge advantage. Education-related product is slow, and it needs patience. The concern, though, is that how to achieve those 3 thesis. Do they train/fine-turn their own model? according to my own experience, the current models are not well trai…

I remember reading that Education is a trillion dollar market, so i'm not sure about the financial outcome being poor, only the state of how that money is spent and obligated can differ greatly.

There’s a reason services like GitHub Classroom Replit’s education offerings shut down. Serving educators can be very hands-on. Education can have lots of different requirements (every teacher needs this one little feature), often legal issues (student privacy), and dealing with universities and governments is awful and bureaucratic. Most companies will find it easier to make money elsewhere.

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

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Post by d4rkp4ttern »

genghisjahn wrote: post #8

Somebody here posted about a Socratic method skill for Claude (or whatever your LLM of choice is). I’ve found this to be fantastic. Dropped in a dense PDF about Linear Algebra, Postgres (those are the two I’ve gotten into so far). It’s basically just a skill.md that reads, “Here’s a document, give me an opening statement about the material and ask me a question. As I provide answers, guide me to simpler or more compl…

Probably referring to my post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938375 (100 up votes)

Direct link to the doc page:

https://pchalasani.github.io/claude-code-tools/plugins-detai...

This was in the context of how I use ChatGPT Live to brainstorm/discuss/learn while on a walk, but of course useful in other contexts too.

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

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Post by jkhdigital »

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…

This is exactly right. I started teaching undergrad CS about 18 months ago after 20 years wandering through other careers, and I quickly realized that students do not need better teaching. They need frequent, direct feedback and an environment that more or less requires them to commit to studying until mastery or to quit early and do something else.

Effective learning techniques have been known for decades, but universities have -zero- incentive to improve teaching quality. There is no standardized assessment infrastructure to compare graduates across schools, or to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching interventions at scale. So any effort put into teaching quality is invisible and thus worthless to a university.

Every attempt to make high-quality instruction available for free has been largely irrelevant to the unwashed masses, because universities have a monopoly on credentialing. The self-starters can learn anything for free, but they were never the problem. It’s the middle 50% that we have utterly failed.

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

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Post by baq »

fluoridation wrote: post #113
baq wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Maybe it works for some people, but it certainly doesn't for me. When I'm handwriting, especially in bulk, all I can think about it how much I hate it and how I can get it to end faster. I take fewer notes with more abbreviations that are later harder to decipher. It's different if it's something like mathematical expressions, because those are never easier to type, but just regular sentences? Absolutely not.

Interesting, I can see where you're coming from. Key detail is the notes are actually not supposed to be read later, just written down - the act of writing by hand helps to commit their content to memory.

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

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Post by Diogenesian »

UltraSane wrote: post #120
Diogenesian wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe if you need a human tutor to understand category theory or Lean then you don't have the requiste math/CS background, and a human/LLM tutor won't be able to meaningfully teach you anything. Note I said "meaningfully" - something with LLMs that deeply concerns me is that they provide edutainment, and people actually think they're learning something. One of the comments on this thread mentioned giving a "dense…

" if you need a human tutor to understand category theory or Lean then you don't have the requiste math/CS background and a human/LLM tutor won't be able to meaningfully teach you anything." What an incredibly elitist thing to say.

No, it's an honest thing to say. If you're not able to read a graduate-level textbook and teach yourself category theory then you don't have the mathematical maturity to understand category theory. You need to start smaller: ideally abstract algebra and point-set topology, or set theory and mathematical logic if you just want the CS applications. Likewise with Lean. Of course there is a place for a good human instructor. But mathematical maturity must be developed the hard way.

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

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Post by epolanski »

genghisjahn wrote: post #8

Somebody here posted about a Socratic method skill for Claude (or whatever your LLM of choice is). I’ve found this to be fantastic. Dropped in a dense PDF about Linear Algebra, Postgres (those are the two I’ve gotten into so far). It’s basically just a skill.md that reads, “Here’s a document, give me an opening statement about the material and ask me a question. As I provide answers, guide me to simpler or more compl…

I've never found this to work properly, because AI doesn't have the empathy to understand where you really struggling.
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