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Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI

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Imnimo ◴[18 Sep 25 19:05 UTC] No.45293673[source]▶
I looked at the example for computer science basics for a 7th grader interested in food. Explanations include:

"a list can be used for a recipe"

"a set can be used to list all the unique ingredients you need to buy for a week's meals"

"a map can be used for a cookbook"

"a priority queue can be used to manage orders in a busy restaurant kitchen"

"a food-pairing graph can show which ingredients taste good together"

Maybe I'm over-estimating the taste of 7th graders, but I feel like I would get sick of this really quickly.

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1. miki123211 ◴[18 Sep 25 23:01 UTC] No.45296066[source]▶
Gemini is extremely fond of this writing style.

If you ask it to explain some complex algorithm, it'll go "imagine a football field..." If you tell it you're a college-educated software engineer in the system prompt and ask it a non-cs question, it will go "imagine a variable..." instead.