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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 vnchr »

jordanscales wrote: post #148

Ed-tech alumni here. You'd have significantly better outcomes if that 100M investment went towards free breakfast and lunch for students.

That would cover school breakfast and lunches for NYC Public Schools for only 3 weeks. Personally, I'd rather see investment in technologies that can give more than just one large school district a temporary improvement.

Sophisticated personalized education for the masses is finally within reach. Andrew Ng is one of the most significant leaders in ed-tech. I'm grateful that he's pursuing this venture and hopeful for the impact it could have on my family and many others.

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

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Post by genghisjahn »

ismailmaj wrote: post #136
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…

While the model itself is great at hiding the answer, the AI summary keeps giving it away, it's so annoying and AFAIK it cannot be disabled.

If you are using Claude code, disable recaps.

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

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Post by TheqO »

To help anyone else who hadn't also previously heard of Andrew

    Andrew Yan-Tak Ng is a ...computer scientist and technology entrepreneur focusing on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI)... Ng was a cofounder and head of Google Brain and was the former Chief Scientist at Baidu.

    Ng is an adjunct professor at Stanford University... Ng has also worked in online education, cofounding Coursera and DeepLearning.AI...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Ng

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

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Post by genghisjahn »

d4rkp4ttern wrote: post #126
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.

Yeah. That was it. I remembered it wrong (you use chatGPT which I admit, has better voice interaction). I use claude code and type it all. Most of the time for walks/runs I just let my thoughts go whenever. But that's just me. I do really appreciate your post though. I wouldn't have the claude skill without it.

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

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Post by HarHarVeryFunny »

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…

Yes, Andrew Ng is a great educator, well positioned with Coursera to deliver this, and personalized education (with exercises and feedback) is an excellent potential use of AI.

I guess the real challenge would be initial and continual assessment of each student in order to select the next instruction that they are ready for, but with "LLM as judge" that doesn't seem such a problem, and student feedback can be used to continuously improve these recommendations/selections.

Presumably you would still want to have a human designed curriculum, with the AI being used as the teacher - assessing how each individual student is doing and what they need to be taught next.

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

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Post by LogicFailsMe »

leafmeal wrote: post #82
senor_digimon wrote: post #56

I think this is a great space because almost any AI educational product can be measured and evaluated by the end user. For example, does the user improve from using your product and do they also believe they do, and do they also LIKE your product? If not, then they have every right to seek out the perfect AI educational product, of which, I expect a variety of. Personally, I believe the last 40 years or so of academi…

> It is not bold at at all to say K-12 will be eradicated. Higher Ed not so much because many were always buying the status of higher education anyway, so the status in itself still has value as a product. It’s funny because I believe the opposite for both of these. Living with a teacher, I’ve learned that the most important objectives of k-12 education are teaching kids how to act like adults in society and behave a…

Oh it will be even better than humans some day. Not any time soon, and definitely not when the sort of people training these things range from incredibly awkward around people to downright psychotic in public. But the infinite patience and persistence of coding agents in the form of a teacher for other things than code would be pretty amazing, but we're nowhere close to that.

Case in point, I would love to know who thought deploying a figuratively "demilitarized" sexbot as a teacher in NY town in 2026 was a good idea. And I say that as someone who loved the movie Weird Science. And I'm evil enough to admit that Van Halen's Hot For Teacher was the first thing that slipped into my mind reading the article below. But really? Who?

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/29/g-s1-136072/ai-robot-teacher

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

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Post by jplusequalt »

thedevilslawyer wrote: post #85
kovek wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think learning from another human being live who can understand your confusingly articulated questions and who can adjust their answers for you, another human being, that's great.

Too costly. Now its viable with AI to do it cheaply.

>Too costly. Now its viable with AI to do it cheaply.

Where is the data that shows this sort of technology beats normal pedagogy?

From a study I read that came out last year, AI tutors are at best no better than a teacher, and whats worse is that AI tutor use caused many students to become dependent on them. These students could not recall information or perform nearly as well without them.

This is just another example of a long line of behavior from software engineers thinking they are god's gifted people, who can waltz into any industry and revolutionize it overnight with an application.

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

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Post by root-parent »

This looks like another investor play to save Coursera and somehow have a vector (pun intended) to help raise its valuation.

Coursera and Udemy already offer AI learning tools, so why create a separate company and commit $100 million? It looks like the product, commercial relationship, ownership structure, IP rights are still unclear.

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