Over the last few months, I decided to learn more math and dive deeper into LLMs, RL, and robotics.
I ended up building a personal agent that asks me questions every day, emails me interesting reads in these areas, and helps me progress in my learning.
It started as a web app, but I have just ported it to a Mac desktop app.
It works like Conductor, but for your learning side quests: https://miletus.app
Here in Australia, magpies do something similar but in a bad way. During nesting season they'll swoop you, remember your face, and keep targeting you. My daughter got attacked two weeks ago.
Agreed. An always-on agent focused solely on improving your knowledge/skills could ask you questions daily, build a picture of the gaps in your understanding and learn where to push you next.
I started with a curated backbone across several fields, drafted with frontier models and reviewed by hand. The automatic (and fun) part happens when you pick a goal and a quest gets generated with its own prerequisites, mapped onto that backbone.
It's def not as robust as Math Academy's graph yet, they spent years hand-building and testing it on real students. But I bet a few more iterations of frontier models get there, especially once there's learner data to correct it.
That's a good point, but if you have an always-on agent focused solely on helping you improve your knowledge/skills, it can ask you questions every day and gradually identify gaps in your knowledge and it gets really good at knowing where to push you.
I ended up building a personal agent that asks me questions every day, emails me interesting reads in these areas, and helps me progress in my learning.
It started as a web app, but I have just ported it to a Mac desktop app.
It works like Conductor, but for your learning side quests: https://miletus.app
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