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Is asking and getting answers how to learn?

Think about most of the stuff you have really learnt over the course of your life, was it from sitting in a classroom with information being spoon-fed to you, from reading a Wikipedia article?

Or was it because you had to search hard for the information, try and fail before you succeeded?

My bet is that your learning comes from the lather not the former.

Good teachers that I have had would point you in a direction and then give guidance or even question you instead of just telling you the answer.



The most effective learning is when you try it yourself, but can also get immediate feedback and explanation.

It’s doing the problem set, but also being able to check the key. Basically a private tutor or TA available at all times.

Without that you can’t get a tight feedback loop.

The most effective use of these systems will not be copying the answer, it’ll be trying to do it and then asking when stuck.


The khan academy approach is right imo. You just tell the models that they should help you through the problem rather than answer it for you.




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