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> but what's the alternative if one doesn't have a human instructor available? My point is, there isn't one. Modelling the student's thought processes is essen
by zasdffaa 4y ago
> but what's the alternative if one doesn't have a human instructor available?
My point is, there isn't one. Modelling the student's thought processes is essential. Maybe GPT could be trained to emulate such?
But there are some solutions such as book publishers not uncritically accepting an author's braindump as being the last word, but putting it in front of people to see what how they interpret it and where they get lost etc and feeding that back into the writing process, a few rounds of that and it'll be much better. I really wish they did that, the quality of so many maths books make them little better than lecture notes.
- mindcrime 4y agoMy point is, there isn't one. So a person who's interested in math but doesn't have a teacher handy should just give up?
- zasdffaa 4y agoThe universe won't bend to what a person needs and deliver it. Many people truly deserve better than they have but never get it. Maybe you can find an answer, I can't.
- mindcrime 4y agoIt is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself Maybe if the universe won't bend and deliver us we want/deserve, we need to bend and accept a form of satisficing[1]. Eg, if I want an instructor to learn math (optimal case) but one is not available, then I go buy a stack of books, find some relevant Youtube videos, and find a reddit forum or something similar to ask questions, and dive in and do my best. Is that "as good"? No. But is it "good enough"? Well, maybe. That's obviously a personal choice, but my argument is only that for some people the answer is "yes, teaching yourself from books and other resources is a satisficing choice given the absence of other preferred choices." [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing