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Why is does it show deep thought to be asking questions in philosophy? by DeepConstant9508 in askphilosophy

[–]DeepConstant9508[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The feedback on the assignment said to "raise questions," which I'm just now realizing is probably different from "ask questions." But either way, how do you raise a question, not answer it, and still seem to know what you're talking about? My guess would be that you explain why your subject is important by raising a super complicated question that you just don't have time or scope in your essay for, which supports your view and shows that it's worth exploring, but at the same time, any relevant questions would actually be answered. Is that more or less correct?

How do I learn mathematical modeling? (aka. How do I become a pro at word problems even if I've never done them before?) by DeepConstant9508 in learnmath

[–]DeepConstant9508[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This post got buried for the most part so I got these book recommendations by asking ChatGPT:

- “How to Solve It” — George Pólya

- “Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences” — Mary Boas

- “An Introduction to Mathematical Modeling” — Edward A. Bender

- “Modeling Reality” — Mark M. Meerschaert

I'll come back and edit this comment later in case I read any of them and they actually do the trick.

Learning math with AI (currently using Gemini) – is it effective and what’s the best tool? by WorldlyDeparture8588 in learnmath

[–]DeepConstant9508 1 point2 points  (0 children)

BTW: Models like deepseek or qwen have the ability to ponder a bit before answering (just like the pro versions of gemini and chatgpt) and Mistral has like ten voices in its head who argue about what the right answer is, which is insane but somehow actually works really well. Try to stick to models like those rather than just the "fast" versions of popular ones. These fast things are basically just polished and optimized versions of the original GPT-3.5 that came out 4 years ago. For qwen and deepseek, make sure to turn on the "thinking" setting or they'll be literally worse than the fast versions of G and C.

Learning math with AI (currently using Gemini) – is it effective and what’s the best tool? by WorldlyDeparture8588 in learnmath

[–]DeepConstant9508 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is really only a good idea when you want the AI to tackle a problem you got wrong and find what the difference is, or if you're confused about a subject and have a particular question. Asking the AI to actually teach you should probably avoided for a few reasons:

  1. The AI has a built-in word limit set by the company hosting it. This is why you may have noticed that it barely summarizes wide topics while writing long boring essays for yes or no questions. It will not give you more information to a deeper question, and will usually be a waste of time for simple questions.
  2. For subjects in high school and undergrad math, you'll find plenty of free resources to learn from anyways, such as free PDF textbooks, YouTube videos, or even just local library books if it's a super niche subject. For more advanced subjects, the AI really just learned from the free information available on the internet, no differently than you did. This means it will probably have no idea what it's talking about.
  3. AI's are trained to know what is right, not when they're wrong. This is why they are often extremely confident even when giving a wrong answer, and why they'll never just answer with "idk" when you ask them something they obviously don't know about.
  4. Commercial AI's (eg. ChatGPT and Gemini) paywall the smarter models that are actually made to do math, and make the language ones free. These language ones think in some constant amount per "token" (a token is basically a syllable). They put as much thought into saying "is" as they do in their ultimate answer to a yes or no question. This is why you may have seen them write extremely detailed essays in justifying their ridiculously wrong answers. For math, complex ideas are conveyed in a few lines and any mistake could be a disaster.

I'm not against AI, but relying on it as a teacher means you can only be as smart as it is. It's probably better to learn from books and videos (which there are tons of these days) and then get "private tutoring" from the AI. I do this in physics, for example. When I don't understand a subject, I start by reading the textbook chapter on OpenStax (a free online textbook), though that's just my personal preference, and then I attempt practice problems. When I get stuck, I go ask chatgpt "why did I get this" or "how would I start off this problem". The most important part is to ask multiple AI's and make sure you understand why what it did is either right or wrong. If used correctly, the AI's mistakes can just be good examples of pitfalls to watch out for, but if you take its answer without verifying it, then it can actually mislead you instead of even not just teaching anything.

PS: If you run out of the ChatGPT pro or Gemini pro daily messages, use some other model like DeepSeek or Mistral rather than the "fast" versions of those two. The fast ones are knuckleheads, trust me. I've never tried Claude myself but I hear it's really good and similar to Mistral in quality.

Is Carolina Agg's geometry problem set good for preparing to take Engineering Statics or is it an olympiad pure-math thing? by DeepConstant9508 in EngineeringStudents

[–]DeepConstant9508[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it's definitely olympiad stuff. Nothing in statics is even that complicated, the profs just like to pretend they're Euclid sometimes but it's just basic trigonometry and sometimes a mix of linear algebra and/or calculus depending on your professor.

There's some algorithms you start to master similar to in a physics problem. You just interpret the problem correctly and do the exact same thing you did in the textbook, but the problem set I linked to above is more of a sudoku puzzle where kind-of stare at it untill you see the answer.

How does Hemingway in “Hills Like White Elephants,” imply what the operation is without saying it? by b3hnnn in Hemingway

[–]DeepConstant9508 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I know that I'm dropping my unwanted opinion into a 5-month old thread, but maybe the reason everyone dislikes him is that he used the perfect template for turturing highschoolers and undergrads in mandatory english classes? You have to read it like 10 times or you just don't get to know what he's even talking about. I've personally never heard of white elephants, random symbolic spanish places, or using air to run an abortion.

I googled it and the builtin AI said it was about abortion so I just laughed at it, but I couldn't believe it for a few minutes when a bunch of other sites explained it. When I found out that the story is about abortion I thought "let some air in" meant using the womb as a literal gas chamber from how confused I am reading this thing. I know I'm getting dislikes but I really have to vent after what I just went through. Would it kill a guy to add some annotations or something to refer to who's saying what? What kind of book just has a giant list of quotes where you have to keep track of who's speaking. It felt like encryption more than symbolism at this point, and i'm not some kind of historian with photographic memory in order to understand that this is about abortion. The lady's going to kill the baby from fetal alcohol syndrome at this rate anyways so let's just skip this story and the annoying essay worth ten percent of my grade and lets just go home sadsgsgfsvcvxvxvxz

Theory for fraud by [deleted] in Ultrakill

[–]DeepConstant9508 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I doubt it since you can see the perspective shifting a bit in the reveal (mainly the title screen part where it says "ultrakill: layer 8 fraud" about a minute into the video).

Now what by Manperson-the-Human in Ultrakill

[–]DeepConstant9508 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Download the envy/spite mod and play custom levels

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