Brian

Math @ Duke ‘28. Head of Engineering @ Different Health

[Brian @briankwmason]

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@latentchiz @justinskycak @philipkiely Glad was helpful! Please share any iterations you make

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Do so many problems it is unreasonable that you don't understand the material.

My Claude learning prompt: https://t.co/U1LJE1ndNZ

Thanks to @justinskycak for providing resources & principles

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@ikogan_ @justinskycak Perhaps but at least for me 3-4 problems hasn’t been enough for me. Raising it to 30-40 has increased my retention and understanding. People learn at different speeds. Perhaps I’m slower than average but that is not a good enough excuse not to learn.

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@JannisSagonasMD I used to use Gemini and it is quite good. This prompt forces building of intuition (quizzing not just on problem-solving techniques but also geometry) and is even more granular in breaking concepts down. It also gives more practice problems than Gemini does.

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@AlienMaster1_0 @justinskycak To be transparent have been primarily using it for math, statistics, and korean. Korean has been okay but need to refine - like giving it access to github of mp3 files

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Okay enough posting about learning time to go back to actually learning

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This is simpler than problems given in class but ensures geometric understanding

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@connorjchristia @justinskycak Ah this makes sense and seems correct in my class

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I'm a third year math major at Duke University and as I follow and apply what @justinskycak writes about I realize how poorly I've been learning math my whole life.

I'm so grateful that in my third year I've found these principles. They should have been taught in grade school.

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@justinskycak @justinskycak how do you build intuition? For example, in PDE you can skip the intuition by simply memorizing how to solve the PDEs (and skip over visualizing characteristic curves).

Real analysis is less forgiving but brute memorizing problems can still allow for this.

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Claude has been essential in generating practice problems that build intuition.

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I'm currently studying at Yonsei and the teacher doesn't post homework due to AI nor does his lecture notes (there is no textbook) contain practice problems outside of the 1-2 done every other class.

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@marco_schonert Don’t get too excited

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Initially, I assumed enterprise contracts were a moat for companies that don't have a moat.

Now, I'm not too sure. They can help form a brand which is a moat.

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@justinskycak is my new favorite follow