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Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'

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__MatrixMan__ · 1790308813 · focus · HN ↗
The way to use AI to learn is not to ask it for the answers. Read a book, make notes about how the things you learn in that book relate to other things you know. Describe those connections as if you were teaching the topic to an interested friend and ask an AI to critique the descriptions. That'll tell you which parts of your textbook to reread, or which other books to read. It'll also give you the confidence to teach the topic to an interested friend, if you have one.
It has to be a second step, a critic. If it's the first step you don't end up with any way to know when it's being crazy.
1. rdedev · 1790309053 · focus · HN ↗
  This worked for me. I was debugging a DL model and asking it a lot of questions. At the end I asked the llm to tell me what I lacked and it gave me a good explanation and pointed me to a bunch of resources i could learn from
  1. __MatrixMan__ · 1790340901 · focus · HN ↗
    Claude an I go in hard SciFi circles around my biochemistry textbook. I'm making a lot more connections to thermodynamics than I expected to.

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