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by LovelyButterfly 12 days ago
Yeah that makes sense. I'm a Master's student myself, ironically on Artificial Intelligence. Often I feel overwhelmed by the amount of papers and the mysterious math logic I have to understand when presented with a model.

Accidentally in Google Colab, I've found that there is a "Learn mode" and somehow I managed to access the instructions for it which indeed instructed to ask questions, then I researched a bit more and learned about the socratic method.

So far I'm doing the combo of Zettelkasten + Socratic on Claude on papers + slides or video classes. I'm not sure if it's placebo or not, but I feel much more confident after iterating with each paper or topic this way. Asking the answer to the LLM never felt like I was studying. I read, but I never understood, I was never challenged. Perhaps what we need is the Unis around the globe to come up with a standard, a guideline so that the students can maximise the advantages of having the LLM when a professor or assistant is not available.