Ananth Preetham

building pomelo 🍊

[Ananth Preetham @ananthp_]

built a course generator that tailors courses to your exact knowledge gap — did a soft launch and now we have 167 people who have built 200+ courses

[Ananth Preetham @ananthp_]

go break it, tell me what's wrong.

[Ananth Preetham @ananthp_]

built a course generator that tailors courses to your exact knowledge gap — did a soft launch and now we have 167 people who have built 200+ courses

[Ananth Preetham @ananthp_]

Still figuring out: the right format for courses, if we need smaller digestible chapters, customizations for different learning styles (diff ppl learn differently).

[Ananth Preetham @ananthp_]

@DanKornas 100%. i think AI would be a good intermediary assistant for that experience. ask you questions about where you're at and what you're trying to achieve and tailor the experience

[Dan Kornas @DanKornas]

@ananthp_ I have the same concern. Big lists are useful as maps, but they’re not a learning path.

The better version would filter by your current level and the system you’re trying to build.

[Ananth Preetham @ananthp_]

@neuralbroker 100% agree with this.

i also like to have the AI ask me questions to gauge my understanding before diving into a topic. If I'm trying to learn about mechanistic interpretabilityI don't want it to teach me how transformers work since I've been working with them for a while now

[Ananth Preetham @ananthp_]

@alex_prompter I also highly recommend Andrej's GPT from scratch video. really well put together and easy to understand if you have a basic ML background

[Ananth Preetham @ananthp_]

4/
it’s free and you don’t need an account to generate a course
https://t.co/PGAmtHZzRy
tell me what topic breaks it, genuinely want to know

[Ananth Preetham @ananthp_]

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spent years bouncing between two ways to learn online:
•courses that spend 6 hours on stuff i already know
•chatgpt tutoring with no structure, no sequence, no memory of where i was
so i built the middle thing

[Ananth Preetham @ananthp_]

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chapters render like real course material, not chat text. tables, code, actual LaTeX math. each chapter has its own chat so your questions don’t derail the course

[Ananth Preetham @ananthp_]

4/
it's free and you don't need an account to generate a course

https://t.co/PGAmtHZzRy

tell me what topic breaks it, genuinely want to know

[Ananth Preetham @ananthp_]

3/
chapters render like real course material, not chat text. tables, code, actual LaTeX math. each chapter has its own chat so your questions don't derail the course

[Ananth Preetham @ananthp_]

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it asks you ~5 questions to figure out what you actually know. the questions adapt to your answers — a doctor learning ML gets asked different things than a data engineer

then it generates a full course around your specific gap. chapters, sequence, progress tracking

[Andi @andi_search]

1/🧵 The new Andi is out now! It's time to make search fun and factual again ⭐️ 🔍

Andi is search for the next generation using generative AI - visual, conversational and factually accurate.

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[Ananth Preetham @ananthp_]

A sort of hidden feature that I love is the code generation -- I personally like it much more than ChatGPT's and it generates like a tutorial blog instead of code with a few vague comments

[Ananth Preetham @ananthp_]

There's been a ton of AI search engines out there but these guys have been building it before it got cool and with a focus on privacy

Congrats on the new look and the incredible new AI @MiamiAngela and @jedwhite!

They just launched on YC, check em out!

https://t.co/WhBIoaPZAg