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brotchietoday at 6:38 PM2 repliesview on HN

GPT 5.6 already is an explainer agent.

Fork Tao’s convo and prompt this (with your own math level described).

GPT did a great job of translating Tao’s questions and concepts (e.g. “pre image”) into a progression I could understand.

“Ok I have a PhD in financial math and undergrad in engineering math. I have almost zero knowledge of polynomial algebra / geometry, I know what a polynomial is and what roots are but not much beyond that. Could you try and explain to my level what questions the user I the conversation has asked and what the agent has responded with, we can probably go user query by user query to build up”


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ValentineCtoday at 8:44 PM

One thing I've repeatedly told people is that chatbots are often the most patient teachers we'll ever get (especially when explaining "stupid" questions) — compared to what we've encountered on StackOverflow or Reddit.

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thechaotoday at 6:43 PM

I want to be able to take a conversation and ask for subconversations as red pen annotations "on the side". The linear nature of the context tends to frustrate this.

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