csmeyerLLMs are the ultimate demoware
https://blog.charliemeyer.co/llms-are-the-ultimate-demoware/
It's wild to me that, of all the things to call LLMs out for, this piece has chosen to include math tutoring. I've been doing Math Academy for a bit over 6 months now, going from (essentially) Algebra II through Calc II (integration by parts, arc lengths, Taylor expansions) and LLMs have been a huge part of what has made that effective:
* Clear explanation of concepts that respond to questions and reformulate when things bounce
* Step-by-step verification of solutions, spotting exactly where calculations have gone
* Instantaneously generating new problem sets to reinforce concepts
LLMs are probably not going to live up to all sorts of claims their proponents make. But I don't think you can ever have tried to use an LLM in a math course and reach the conclusion that it's "demoware" for that application. At what point, over 6 months of continuous work, does it stop being a "demo"?
This https://www.mathacademy.com/ ? Interesting, hadn't seen that before. I've been thinking I'd like to brush up on a bunch of those topics.
Wholeheartedly recommend it, just remember we're not the core market for it (that's high school students, though the curricula goes all the way through the normal college math sequence).
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In case I've spooked anyone, they have an adult course series (Foundations I, II, and III) that's accelerated by trimming out all the material their authors believe are important only for things like school placement exams; the modal adult Math Academy person is doing I, II, and III as a leadup to their Math for Machine Learning course, which is linear algebra and multivariable calc.
I think it's one of the three most mindblowing learning resources I've ever used. One of the other three: Lingua Latina Familia Romana. In both cases, I have the uncanny certainty that I am operating at the limit of my ability to acquire and retain new information, which is a fun place to be.