Comment by TrackerFF

Back in the day, when I first tried college, I simply could not comprehend higher level math. We had one professor, and a couple of TAs - but it was impenetrable for me. They just said to me Go to the library and try some different books", or "Try to find some students and discuss the topics". Tried that, but to no avail.

I was a poor math student in HS, but I loved electronics, so that's why I decided to pursue electrical engineering. Seeing that I simply could not handle the math, I dropped out after the first year, and started working as an electricians apprentice.

Some years later YouTube had really taken off, and I decided to check out some of the math tutors there. Found Khan Academy, and over the course of a week, everything just fell into place. I stared from the absolute beginning, and binged/worked myself up to HS pre-calc math. His style of short-from teaching just worked, and he's a phenomenal educator on top.

Spent the summer studying math, and enrolled college again in the fall. Got A's and B's in all my engineering math classes. If I ever got stuck, or couldn't grok something, I trawled youtube for math vids / tutors until I found someone that could explain it in a way I could understand.

These days I use LLMs in the way you do, and I sort of view it as an extension of the the way I learned things before: infinite number of tutors.

Of course, one problem is that one doesn't know what one doesn't know. Is the model lying to you? Well, luckily there are many different models, and you can compare to see what they say.