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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 complex areas of the topic. Something something Socratic method.” Works great.

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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.

https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools/blob/main/pl...

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 cards from when for example the user jumps to crush a bonus block.

"Ask HN: How can I learn to read mathematical notation?" (2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18511718

"[Feature Request]: flashcards to advance in the game and learning mode" Issue #3054 ; SuperTux/supertux https://github.com/SuperTux/supertux/issues/3054

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

https://github.com/bevibing/socrates-skill

I recently used this to prep for interviews - I got the job :)

I've made an entire platform based on Socratic AI Agents that co-work with a person as method acting assistants in an office suite. https://midombot.com/b1/home

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.

Would you care to share them?

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.

That's super interesting - will have to take a look into this!

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