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  • Edtech has historically not had amazing venture outcomes compared to saas, ads, rockets, etc.

    Given how much people spend on education, there’s no reason AI education software wont be a huge market.

    And there’s few people better suited than Andrew Ng to execute this

    by isubkhankulov
  • Please, stop destroying human everyday life experience with technology and for your personal wealth.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fun_They_Had

    by hamburgererror
  • Is it only me or the website looks vibe coded ? the output feels like a standard claude template.
    by ashu1461
  • "Conventional wisdom says AI will replace people. I believe the opposite."

    So people will replace AI?

    by sv123
  • I do think Andrew is the right person doing this. Someone mentioned that the return of financial outcome is not good in edTech, and this is exactly why backing by Coursera is a huge advantage. Education-related product is slow, and it needs patience.

    The concern, though, is that how to achieve those 3 thesis. Do they train/fine-turn their own model? according to my own experience, the current models are not well trained in personal education context, and it is either too textbook-like or too task-driven.

    by yuanBuilds
  • As a daily user of Anki and Math Academy, I'm very excited about how software can help us learn.

    Now, with AI, we can really build tools that were not possible before. I built for myself AlgoTutor[1], a CLI tool that teaches Go developers algorithmic skills and concurrency.

    The recent Understanding floating point[2] from Oz Nova is also a type of tutorial I want to see more often.

    [1] https://github.com/zuzuleinen/algotutor

    [2] https://proto.csprimer.com/fp/

    by zuzuleinen
  • > 01 Plans a path with you

    > 02 Adapts to how you learn

    > 03 Patiently stays with you until you've mastered new skills

    1 and 2 any of the big AI companies will do that for you. I have Claude doing this for me for a few learning areas.

    3 to me feels like the Duolingo bird.

    IMHO, they are trying to solve the wrong thing. People who want to learn will gravitate to learning systems.

    If you can find a way to pull in people who don't want to learn, that has value.

    by EagnaIonat
  • 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.
    by genghisjahn

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