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Show HN: A tool that helps you ask good questions to learn better (chat.ianhsiao.xyz)
2 points by _mad_eye_ 534 days ago
When I encounter a new topic, I often struggle to consistently ask meaningful, in-depth questions, but I enjoy question-driven learning, so I built this with Claude.

The idea behind is that you read the "Guide" to get an initial mental model of the complex subject, so you will feel the urge to ask questions to fill in the gaps of the mental models.

And once you understand the core idea, you read the "summary" to fill in other smaller gaps of the subject.

The chatbot is prompted by default to use things you understand well as analogy/starting point, so the explanations should feel relatable.

This is an very early endeavor to for me to facilitate understandings with AI, feel free to share any feedbacks!

p.s. You can try with papers outside your comfort zone. For me I tried "attention is all you need", and I think it worked quite well.

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You can try the paper "Attention is all you need" too if you want to :)) https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2017/file/3...