And this is how I personally.
Learn.
Using LLMs.
Without my brain rotting away.
Give me a worked example,.
I.e.
Steps.
Breaking down.
Worked.
Like a math problem or LeetCode.
And then we you can just type a random number here, 137.
So,.
If you just tell the LLM.
Give me the solution.
To LeetCode 137,.
It will give you something.
And you won't understand it at all.
But if you ask for a worked example,.
This is the hack.
It will tell you step by step.
How to come to this conclusion.
So, you're not just getting the final thing,.
You are getting.
A series of steps.
Which you can go through.
And each step is small in terms of cognitive requirement.
And you'll actually be able to learn, remember, and retain that information and that step.
And your brain will remember in a chain.
So that you might remember.
Four out of the five.
But then remembering the other four.
Forces your brain to recall the fifth one.
Because your brain likes to associate.
This thing's related with this thing.
It links patterns in that way.
So, I I actually think that LLMs are.
Learning on steroids because now you have access.
To.
A speaking encyclopedia.
That can break down problems for you.
Your own personal tutor.
It is insane, actually.
So, that was a clip from my live stream.
And.
I'm aware of a scientific.
Article.
That actually talks more about this and I wanted to share it.
You can go look it up yourself.
And you can see what this study says.
As well.
The paper is called.
The effect of worked examples on learning solution steps and knowledge transfer.
And in this article they describe.
A method where they took two groups of students.
They gave one group.
The.
Worked example, which is like a series of steps to.
Help the students get to the solution.
And the other group just had to.
Figure it out basically. They had to do problem solving and the problems that they gave them were designed.
In a way that they required.
To fit many things into working memory at a given time.
So very cognitively.
Demanding.
And if I just scroll down to the results cuz it's quite a long paper.
So the results here effectively.
It breaks down the two groups into a table.
Um.
And they measured the cognitive load.
And motivation.
Retention.
And also something called near transfer.
So for cognitive load.
It's predictable.
Expected.
That the worked example group had lower cognitive load.
Of course because they were given a worked example.
They already know.
Some of the steps to solving the problem.
So they were consistently lower in cognitive load.
Now why is that important?
If we look at some of the other results,.
For example, let's just go down to retention.
And we look at the retention.
I don't know what the what unit these numbers are in, but you can see that the worked example group.
Had a 50% increased retention.
Over the students that were just problem-solving.
So, much much.
Better ability to remember how they solved that problem.
And you can see they also scored better on near transfer.
And I'm I believe that means that when given similar problems,.
They are better able to solve those problems as well.
The motivational scale has to do with.
How proud they were of completing.
The the lesson or the challenge.
Also how challenged they felt during that.
As you would expect,.
Um the worked example group.
Didn't feel that it was too challenging for them.
And then for how proud they were of their achievements,.
The worked example group was also.
Slightly more proud of what they did.
Um so, take that for what you will.
But then if we go down to the.
Uh essentially the.
Educational.
Implications,.
It's sort of giving,.
I guess, advice for maybe teachers or professors.
To recommend.
That when you are training.
Or teaching someone who is just new to something, that you should give them worked examples.
And then as they learn more and more, you can maybe peel back a few of the steps so that the worked.
Example have less information and they have to do more problem-solving.
Over time. So, you're doing this gradual.
Increase.
To keep the cognitive load of the student manageable.
Why do you need to do that?
Because when you are cognitively.
Overloaded,.
You cannot remember things.
And especially if you are.
Overloaded by a challenge and you get frustrated,.
You have even less chance.
To remember.
And get and get through that problem.
So, when we are doing things like going to LeetCode.
And jumping into a problem that we have never seen before, you are not cheating.
By looking at worked examples.
The worked example will tell you how to solve it, but you will actually be better solidifying that knowledge in your brain.
And that pattern. Now, a worked example is very different from a completely finished and final solution.
A worked example is the steps.
It is not.
Just the answer. If you just used.
Uh take the answers, you're not going to learn.
But, if you use a worked example,.
You're going to learn.
Better than everyone else who doesn't.
It just seems like a no-brainer for me.
So, when you go through here and you look at solutions, don't look at the solutions because.
They will have.
Uh just a complete solution unless they've written it their their shared solution really well, which most of them don't do that.
So, instead, what you do, you just go to an LLM and ask it to give you a worked example because they've.
All been trained.
On all of LeetCode and everything.
That's it. I will link the study in the description.
Uh go have a read and.
Uh good luck.