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Now I Get It, with Dr. AndyAuthor: Andrew Winkler
Im Andrew Winkler, a former Stanford and Columbia math professor. Well explore the most interesting insights Ive come across, ranging across the mental landscape: math, science, personality, how we think and feel, and how we love or feel unloved. Well give answers to all the most confusing questions everyone has, have new books and authors, and reach new understandings. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Language: en Genres: Mathematics, Relationships, Science, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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AI Math Tutoring That Won’t Do Your Homework, Plus an App That Maps Your Muscles
Episode 55
Thursday, 22 October, 2026
I’ve been building apps with AI programming tools, and I’ve seen them do some remarkably clever things and some remarkably stupid ones. In this episode I talk about two of the projects. The first is a math tutoring app. You take a picture of your homework page and tell it which exercise you’re stuck on. It reads the nearby problems too, so it understands what you’re being taught. It won’t solve the problem for you. It gives you similar problems and walks you through them, then goes looking for the shaky piece from last month or last year that’s making everything else fall apart. Math is a house of cards, and that missing foundation is usually what trips people up. I was a math professor at Columbia and Stanford, and even I hit a point where I had to stop sailing through and dig in.The second project is Muscle Map, an app where you pick a specific muscle and find out what will strengthen it, and where you’ll start to hurt if you neglect it. I’m working on it with KK, who I met when she was about 10. She floundered at softball, found volleyball, and became a setter so good that she played on a college scholarship and then professionally in Iceland and France. Today she’s a doctor of physical therapy who works with neurological conditions. Her mantra, “movement is medicine,” has changed how I handle my own aches and pains. All of my apps are free right now, and I’d love your feedback. Complain loudly if something isn’t working the way it should.In this episode you will learn:(00:00) How my AI tutoring app turns a photo of your homework into guided practice, without doing the work for you(04:13) Why math is a house of cards, and how the app finds the foundation you missed(04:43) What Muscle Map shows about building a muscle and where weakness will cause pain(05:36) KK’s path from struggling at softball to pro volleyball and then physical therapy, plus why “movement is medicine”(09:34) Where to find my free apps, and how early adopters get grandfathered inLet’s connect!linktr.ee/drprandyRead, with computer assistance, the best literature the world has ever producedandrew-winkler-reading-room.overskill.appLove Quotient: Stop Dying of Thirst in an Ocean of Love Kickstarterhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amwphd/love-quotient Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
