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

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Post by rahimnathwani »

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?

If you spend 30 mins/day studying math then that's $3.30 per hour.

If it improves your learning efficiency by just 10% then it's worth it.

(My son uses math academy 3-5 hours per week.)

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

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Post by personjerry »

mrtobo wrote: post #162
personjerry wrote: post #28

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Coursera, the company providing the funding, also belongs to Andrew Ng

He's on the board, at least - "belongs to" isn't correct.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coursera

> Coursera was founded in 2012 by Stanford University computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller.

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

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Post by mrtobo »

personjerry wrote: post #172
mrtobo wrote: post #162

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He's on the board, at least - "belongs to" isn't correct.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coursera > Coursera was founded in 2012 by Stanford University computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller.

founded by and belongs to aren't the same thing

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

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Post by sn9 »

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?

Yes if you can afford it, then it's absolutely worth it. Nothing better at the moment.

This review lays out how you should think about the costs and benefits: https://jonathanwhitmore.com/posts/2024-09-10-mathacademy/in...

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

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Post by sn9 »

westurner wrote: post #37
westurner wrote: post #17

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Khanmigo specifies the Socratic method as well. These look like system and agent prompts and agent instructions: "Academic Assistant Pro.md", "Code Tutor" https://github.com/linexjlin/GPTs/blob/main/prompts/ Gemini Notebook does flashcards, study guides: https://edu.google.com/ai-gemini-notebook/ Spaced Repetition flashcards or flashquestions to progress through a game might be good; configure Anki decks to surface c…

Resources for teaching ml and ai? So I Ctrl-F'd for "Linear algebra" resources in my research log and found: "Interactive Linear Algebra (2019)" (2021) re: Manim https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28173565 Latest Manim developments; interactive WebGL in browser: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093210

Math Academy has a Math for Machine Learning course: https://www.mathacademy.com/courses/mathematics-for-machine-...

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Post by westurner »

sn9 wrote: post #175
westurner wrote: post #37

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Resources for teaching ml and ai? So I Ctrl-F'd for "Linear algebra" resources in my research log and found: "Interactive Linear Algebra (2019)" (2021) re: Manim https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28173565 Latest Manim developments; interactive WebGL in browser: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093210

Math Academy has a Math for Machine Learning course: https://www.mathacademy.com/courses/mathematics-for-machine-...

Kaggle Learn has courses in ML, Deep Learning, ML Explainability, Python, Pandas,: https://Kaggle.com/learn

This is the Dockerfile that they install Python packages with on Kaggle Kernels, which is the Jupyter notebook product that Kaggle Learn is built on: https://GitHub.com/Kaggle/docker-python

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

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Post by LtWorf »

xxwink wrote: post #164
LtWorf wrote: post #91

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I have a feeling you've not been around a group of teenagers for a while.

I'm a father of two teenage boys. Both of them could've used "customized learning". What makes you think otherwise ?

2 and 20 aren't really the same at all.

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

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Post by Gathering6678 »

hmokiguess wrote: post #149
Gathering6678 wrote: post #9

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May I ask why? If by "not the same" you meant: AI is not at the level of a good human educator, it is a fair argument - but not many humans can afford to have a one-to-one human educator either. Perhaps I am a bit more optimistic, but if AI could give me, let's say, 90% of an average lecturer's capability, at 10% of the price or even less, that is probably extremely valuable. (For one, I would certainly be interested…

I just fundamentally believe that AI cannot replace the human aspect of connection. A teacher does more than just teach, they also connect with the students and form relationships. You could argue we may end up with some form of “AI” connection though if that’s a good thing and what is its long term effects on us as a society we are yet to see. Regardless, what I mean to say is I don’t think AI to Human can replace H…

I didn't have "replace" in my mind. I 100% agree with you that AI cannot replace human educators, but I am hopeful that as a supplementary tool, AI can achieve a lot.

On your point of MOOCs and YouTube lectures: I agree that the latter is sufficient for me, but there's nothing stopping AI from creating something similar, or even better: lectures tailored to my specific interests and needs. MOOC failed for me exactly because it wasn't "for me" - I might as well try and find a YouTube playlist.

These are all tangential, of course. I don't know how this specific thing would turn out.

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

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Post by epolanski »

JeremyNT wrote: post #145
epolanski wrote: post #130

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

I'm not super familiar with this approach, but couldn't you just respond with an elaboration on how you don't understand a concept when you encounter it and guide the model in the correct direction?

That requires you, the student, to easily identify why you're not understanding and what concept among multiple ones is the primary or secondary blocker.

It's not easy.

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