Nice, exercises are a good idea, especially for bite-sized things like einsum. It could also give personalized feedback on your solutions to exercises from a textbook.
Randomized flashcards like you’ve described would be really really cool. I’m just dipping my toes in the water with having it generate normal flashcards. It has promise, but I’m not sure on the best way to do it yet. One thing I’ve tried is prompting it with a list of principles the flashcards ought to adhere to, and then having it say for each flashcard which of the principles that card exhibits.
And one more: I’ve been prompting it to teach me things via the Socratic method. So it asks questions and I have to answer them. Most usefully, it’s not just a “yes man”—it actually tells me if I’m wrong.
Nice, exercises are a good idea, especially for bite-sized things like einsum. It could also give personalized feedback on your solutions to exercises from a textbook.
Randomized flashcards like you’ve described would be really really cool. I’m just dipping my toes in the water with having it generate normal flashcards. It has promise, but I’m not sure on the best way to do it yet. One thing I’ve tried is prompting it with a list of principles the flashcards ought to adhere to, and then having it say for each flashcard which of the principles that card exhibits.
And one more: I’ve been prompting it to teach me things via the Socratic method. So it asks questions and I have to answer them. Most usefully, it’s not just a “yes man”—it actually tells me if I’m wrong.