[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Where to find domain experts for 1:1 tutoring?
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Ask HN: Where to find domain experts for 1:1 tutoring?
I'm looking to get a crash course on a few topics and am hoping to
do that by sitting down with domain experts for intensive 1:1
sessions. Has anyone here approached learning in a similar way, and
if so, how did you go about sourcing experts? Currently looking for
an AI expert.
Author : deeptechdreamer
Score : 13 points
Date : 2024-08-28 21:27 UTC (1 hours ago)
| kcirerick wrote:
| It depends on how much money you have. You could pretty easily
| pay someone on Intro to spend some time with you, but experts can
| be crazy expensive. You could also just do a ton of cold email
| with very specific questions and build your own network of
| mentors. I'm sure posting stuff like this on various forums could
| also end with someone volunteering their time.
|
| The more specific you can be with what you want to learn, the
| better off you'll be though. "AI expert" is still pretty broad.
|
| "Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask"
| beefnugs wrote:
| yeah sadly capitalism is brutal about this. In the past
| mentoring and apprenticeship was based on the fact a business
| owner can get years of cheap labour out of you.
|
| The economics dont really math out with software development,
| because to be a good software developer usually means you are
| smart enough to see when you are being exploited and nope out
| as soon as possible.
|
| Then mentioning AI is an even deeper layer of "nobody wants you
| to know the tricks that is making them scam money"
| brudgers wrote:
| Within reason consultants will usually do what their clients
| request modulo sufficient project budgets. That often includes
| training. Good luck.
| tomashertus wrote:
| Heh, a couple of years ago, I had an idea for an "Uber for
| Experts." It would provide a similar experience to Uber, but
| instead of a ride, you'd get 30 minutes with a domain expert of
| your choosing. I never got around to working on it, but there
| might still be an opportunity for something like this.
| joshdavham wrote:
| Might honestly not be the worst idea!
|
| People could put up basic profiles with their skills listed and
| you could purchase a time slot with them. It'd be relatively
| low commitment for both the experts and also the advice
| seekers.
|
| Some technical problems might be verifying expertise but this
| could be handled with a sort of social proof like how LinkedIn
| allows users to vouch for certain skills. In fact you could
| probably facilitate account creation by pulling from the
| LinkedIn api.
|
| But yeah, good luck if you build it!
| rm_-rf_slash wrote:
| I agree. I'd like to be able to share my knowledge from time
| to time for a small fee and little hassle on my part.
|
| I made some money on Codementor for a time and enjoyed it
| while I was between jobs, but wasn't easy to balance that
| with FTE so I dropped it after a while.
| Apreche wrote:
| I would love to teach these kinds of sessions. But I have to have
| the time, it has to be a subject I know well, and I need to be
| fairly compensated.
|
| Sorry, not an AI expert.
| jononor wrote:
| https://Codementor.io is a platform designed for exactly that. I
| am registered as a mentor there, though not so active. I have not
| used it as a mentee, so cannot vouch for the process or mentor
| pool though.
|
| AI is very broad, what exactly are you wishing to
| learn/build/accomplish and where are you in the process?
|
| I specialize in ML that intersects with time-series, sensor/IoT
| data and audio. Info in profile if anyone is interested.
| rm_-rf_slash wrote:
| You might have better luck at local events for likeminded
| professionals and network from there. Most people who are worth
| their salt won't likely want to teach their craft to a rando on
| the internet. Nothing personal, there's just too much to do.
|
| It would help to know what your objectives are with learning more
| about AI. Otherwise we can only guess at your motivations.
| ilaksh wrote:
| https://www.perplexity.ai/ seriously. Or try just literally
| asking Claude.
|
| I am an "AI expert" in the sense that I have been focused on
| applying generative AI for the last two years, (since we had
| useful general purpose LLMs).
|
| Give me an idea of what you are trying to do and I will give you
| search terms to put in Perplexity or Claude or ChatGPT or
| whatever.
|
| You are not going to find anything close to what you would get as
| far as value for mentoring as you would with LLM tools like I
| mentioned.
| ghotli wrote:
| I have an old boss that calls me from time to time. Maybe I'll
| just call him an old friend at this point. He lives by the
| philosophy that you put in the work and you debug your thinking
| by bouncing the context you've built up off of experts. Sometimes
| he shoots a cool hundred my way thereafter, sometimes he doesn't.
| Most of the time we're just catching up.
|
| This works for him and tbh it works for me too. I guess my advice
| is that the important part is not sourcing the expert it's
| putting in the work to come with enough context to get something
| out of talking to an expert and to leave them without the feeling
| like you've wasted their time. Follow people on the socials, read
| their code, show up at a NeurIPS with actual good questions to
| ask people in person on the hallway track.
|
| Without the _hard work up front to get good questions to ask_
| you're in danger of finding a good expert and them deciding
| you're just another starry eyed kid that doesn't know for just
| how many years longer you wouldn't even pass the screening call
| for an interview.
|
| Just my two cents, hope this helps!
| ghaff wrote:
| That sounds pretty good. Someone I know, calls me for a take,
| maybe offers a dinner, etc, sure. Even sounds like fun. A
| transactional 1:1 domain expert call, less so. I have done them
| from time to time but it's either been as a favor or
| prospecting for future business but isn't really a business
| model in either case.
| keyle wrote:
| Just "start doing it" and quickly you'll run into a wall, ask for
| help with a legitimate question that isn't vague like "teach me
| about x".
|
| Solve that problem and move onto the next. Via a string of
| problem fixes you gain more domain knowledge and you'll retain
| more as you struggled through it and deeply understood it.
| BoredTempo wrote:
| I'm personally using wyzant.com to get some help for a
| certification right now.
|
| I will say the quality of the tutors varies wildly so you may
| have to do some digging depending on the specific domain.
|
| I was able to find someone who currently works at the company the
| certification is through and it has been very helpful.
|
| I will note that the whiteboard on the site is pretty bad so we
| just use something else.
| waveBidder wrote:
| So only applicable for students, but office hours are frequently
| extremely under-utilized, and professors love to talk about their
| subject of interest.
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