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That sounds really useful. Can you give an example of what kind of content your are uploading and how the tutoring looks like?

• falcor84 2y ago
  One example is of studying robotics. I started with this course on Coursera [0]. It was ok at the start, but got hard for me early on. A big part of the course is of reading the book that they make available for free [1], so I would upload the relevant chunk of chapters into Claude (the whole book was a bit too much for it), and would then just ask it to explain each topic to me, whereby I'd ask additional questions, and then when, I felt I got it, ask it to check my understanding (which it does quite well, saying "sort of, but note that..." in many appropriate circumstances). As another specific example, in that book and in others, I sometimes struggle with the math, so I would ask Claude to give me the sympy code for the relevant mathematical derivation, and being able to actually see those expressions change in a python notebook really helps my understanding. I'm really impressed with how it usually does well on the first try, even with relatively complex stuff, like expressions involving symbolic matrix exponentiation. Being able to pause on any topic like this, and have the LLM help me dive into it in the way that works best for me, has been amazing, and getting as much time from a knowledgeable human tutor would have probably cost me 1,000x as much. [0] https://coursera.org/specializations/modernrobotics https://coursera.org/specializations/modernrobotics [1] http://hades.mech.northwestern.edu/images/7/7f/MR.pdf http://hades.mech.northwestern.edu/images/7/7f/MR.pdf
  • saati 2y ago
    How do you know the answers are actually useful and not just hallucinations?
    • falcor84 2y ago
      It's not an oracle, and does get things wrong occasionally, but if anything, having to check its responses actually helps me confirm that I'm learning.
  • oculty 2y ago
    got it, very nice usecase! Think I might also try it with an online class!