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Show HN: Create mind maps to learn new things using AI

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169 points arthurtakeda | 4 comments | 20 Oct 24 20:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source

Enter a topic and get a learning mind map generated by an LLM with links to learn more about each subtopic.

You can use it with local models (through Ollama) or external models.

If you have any feedback, please share it! Hope it's useful

Demo: https://youtu.be/Y-9He-tG3aM

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ainiriand ◴[21 Oct 24 08:08 UTC] No.41901796[source]▶
That is really cool. I am very much into learning with the support of AI.

Last month I started to learn Rust and I used this prompt to help me:

'I am an experienced software engineer who wants to learn Rust, design a learning path for 3 months, with daily goals. Try to have a good balance of learning and working exercises using available resources like Rustlings or Learn rust by example. Output this path in markdown and add space to gather my learnings in a note at the end of each week.'

Maybe with some tweaks can be useful to someone else!

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1. aquariusDue ◴[21 Oct 24 08:27 UTC] No.41901904[source]▶
I'd also recommend the wonderful 100 Exercises to Learn Rust authored by Luca Palmieri who also wrote Zero To Production in Rust. I'm halfway through the exercises and I find them to complement Rustlings and The Book perfectly.

So yeah, 100 Exercises to Learn Rust is what finally made traits (especially From and Into), impls and trait bounds finally click for me and I can't recommend it enough.

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2. ainiriand ◴[21 Oct 24 08:30 UTC] No.41901922[source]▶
I did that! https://github.com/sh4ka/100-exercises-to-learn-rust
3. chamomeal ◴[21 Oct 24 11:59 UTC] No.41903177[source]▶
How do they compare to “the book” (I forget the exact title).

I tried to get through it a couple times, but I have no background in C and the lifetimes part confused the hell outta me. Combined with all the other new things, my interest just sorta fizzled.

Love those enums, though!!

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4. ainiriand ◴[22 Oct 24 05:51 UTC] No.41911547[source]▶
For me the 100 exercises were a gentler introduction to the language for some topics, making the exercises was a bit difficult without having read the book first.

But I would give it a try, I did that and then the book was much more accessible.