{"slug": "ask-hn-how-are-you-using-ai-to-learn", "title": "Ask HN: How are you using AI to learn?", "summary": "A Hacker News user asked the community how they use AI to learn, citing the 'Socratic skills' method of generating questions from content and planning to study the 'Attention is all you need' paper. The post, which received 3 points, seeks diverse approaches beyond this technique.", "body_md": "| ||||||||||||\n3 points by |\nIt's time to start learning advanced topics again and I thought it'd be at least interesting to take advantage of LLM's to help me learn better or faster. I've read here that some of you are using \"socratic skills\" where you give the LLM some content and then you get a series of questions in order to learn but I don't think it's the only approach to this. I'll start tackling the \"Attention is all you need\" paper and then I want to go deeper. What's your approach? | |||||||||||\nApplications are open till July 27. |", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-are-you-using-ai-to-learn", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138466", "published_at": "2026-08-01 21:03:58+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-01 21:22:35.980685+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Hacker News", "Attention is all you need"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-are-you-using-ai-to-learn", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-are-you-using-ai-to-learn.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-are-you-using-ai-to-learn.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-are-you-using-ai-to-learn.jsonld"}}