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EagnaIonat 4 hours ago

> 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.

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pllbnk 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Qwen 3.6 27B will do that for you, or any other model with a few billion parameters. I don't see any value there other than nice UI on top of an LLM.

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BloondAndDoom an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I started learn linear algebra and some mid-level math stuff couple of years back. While I really wanted to learn I still struggled to find a good learning path and use a product similar to Duolingo for math.

Eventually I learned some, then stopped using it and then forgotten all of it.

But my point is despite if me really want to learn I found it quite challenging to find learning path that I trusted to be good start for me.

I also need to make the point; I didn’t have 5 hours a day, so this 30-90 minutes in a good day endeavor.

There are still tons of things to solve in this area, how to cross to chasm, a learning path that’s right for you and how can you be sure of that. Learning something in one good 60m instead of 5 different videos and 5 hours. Etc. I think these problems are far from solved.

I also want to get fit but that doesn’t mean I’ll show up in my gym to workout everyday. So even when you really really want to learn you still need to stay motivated.

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EagnaIonat an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> While I really wanted to learn I still struggled to find a good learning path

For that 3Blue1Brown is very good for this.

https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown

Better Explained as well, but focuses more on how to understand the concept so you can start to learn.

https://betterexplained.com/articles/linear-algebra-guide/

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iLoveOncall an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

What you're looking for is not something to help your with your goals, it's something that sells you the idea that you can achieve your goals while seemingly be unwilling to put the necessary effort in.

What if it's simply impossible to learn linear algebra and mid-level math stuff by spending only 30 minutes a day? What if you can't get fit if you don't go to the gym?

	▲	sanswork 33 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It sounds like what they are looking for is a pathway. Khan used to have a really good one with the world of math pathway where you could go for 2 + 2 to Calculus in a set sequence of steps each building on the next. I've tried Khan a few times since they got rid of it and it just feels like you're all over the place and regularly missing skills it expects you to have. They aren't trying to get fit by not going to the gym they are looking for a progressive overload program for math.

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hahahaa an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

AI isn't that general purpose. If There is a chef course curated / tested with Jamie Oliver I'll buy that over a Claude chat. And by "I" I mean regular folk who are most of the market every SaaS and AI wants to capture.

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anvuong 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, I think people who really want to learn will very quickly grow out of this.

This is for people who don't want to learn but actually have to for some reasons.

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ajpaulson 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What do you mean by “learning systems?”

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EagnaIonat 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I was referring to systems that are designed to teach people.

SCORM for example.

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j45 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Scorm is a zip file with html files to structure content any way you want with a minimal amount of mandatory standards.

It was never meant for assessment, nor is it secure. The creator of scorm said to not use it learning had to be secured.

It’s not a system or a framework in any meaningful or standardized sense, and more of a format for compiling content that can be copied between different places.

	▲	EagnaIonat an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That's an oversimplification of what SCORM is, but point taken. My comment was about LMS.

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cyclopeanutopia 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Totally agree that the missing ingredient is making people want to learn. Which seems like something that gets harder every day.

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ndr42 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A very cynical way to put it: "Why should I learn something when AI could do for me?"

	▲	LunaSea 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In a world where most people learn to get a job, its less of a cynical question and more a practical question.

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fluoridation 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Is it? People want to learn things they think they need. Is there a growing disconnection between what they think they need and what they actually need?

	▲	cyclopeanutopia 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There is a growing lack of motivation.

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kovek 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think learning from another human being live who can understand your confusingly articulated questions and who can adjust their answers for you, another human being, that's great.

	▲	b473a 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I agree, at least in that we need more human contact, not less. But I will say Gemini / Claude have both been surprisingly good at understanding my half-assed attempts to put a complicated question into a coherent sentence.
	▲	thedevilslawyer 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Too costly. Now its viable with AI to do it cheaply.

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j45 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They are solving the bloom sigma problem from where I see it.

It’s far from solved.

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bryanrasmussen 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean "People who want to learn will gravitate to learning systems." means that this is the obvious target market for a learning system. Since there are lots of those out there you win on execution.

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

Most companies try to address a known market and not create one.

At any rate you have two types of people who don't want to learn:

1. people who don't want to learn and have to anyway, for some reason (generally work related)

2. people who don't want to learn and have nothing forcing them.

Number 1 is a potential market, number 2 seems hopeless.