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4d9h
Are you interested in using https://vector-graph.com/ to add math diagrams? I created it exactly for this kind of websites and I'd be happy to waiver the fee for your site!
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4d8h
Nice work. Out of curiosity, how is the difficulty determined? I notice that some of the "hard" questions (inverting a 2x2 matrices or differentiating common functions) are much easier than others (proving that no natural number has Euler totient equal to 14).
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4d8h
hi! right now, it is manually assigned after parsing the problems. i am figuring out a relative system for assigning difficulty automatically.
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4d8h
I don't envy you the task! You've probably thought about it a lot more than me, but I was wondering if you could add a "very hard" or "advanced" category. Or perhaps users could submit difficulty ratings as a percentage and you take the average.
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4d7h
you are right, user-submitted content can help too. but that would imply a difficulty setting based on all users who have participated instead of a globally agreeable difficulty value. if the smart ones find a hard problem to be easy and they are the only ones to attempt that problem, that problem would be marked as easy.
on the "very hard"/"advanced" bit, feedback taken.
thank you for writing your thoughts!
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4d5h
I feel like the obvious answer is to let people vote on it, like an upvotes/downvotes system.
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4d7h
IMO, I think in the grand scheme of things proofs are always tricky so it generally would be in a higher difficulty no matter the problem. However in the category of number theory, that would be say an easier proof than some others.
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4d9h
This looks fantastic, getting better at maths is something I have always wanted to do.
Also, some of the commenters have posted python code but it is not formatted/styled.
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4d9h
hi! glad you like the site.
i have introduced a markdown editor in this release. that should fix the code formatting issues going forward.
thanks!
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4d6h
To stay in touch with math, the annually publicized math problems from the German Abitur[0] are great! The problems are already separated into three difficulties, making it suitable to include in your website (although they might need translating).
[0] https://www.iqb.hu-berlin.de/abitur/pools2023/mathematik/erh...
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4d6h
this seems very interesting! thanks, i will check it out!
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4d8h
congrats on launching Vivek! Followed you on Twitter
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4d8h
thank you naman!
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4d10h
I like the HN like design. Great web app.
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4d10h
hi, glad you liked it! thank you!
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4d9h
As someone who has struggled with learning maths, this looks really great. I've set up an account and look forward to giving it a try
And yes, the Hacker News minimal style of the website is very much appreciated! well done
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4d9h
glad you liked it! you can also check out the telegram community i am building - https://t.me/teachyourselfmath
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4d9h
This is awesome!
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4d9h
thank you :)
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4d5h
I love this. Great job. Bought you some coffee.
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3d9h
hi, thank you so much, means a lot to me :))))
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4d5h
I remember when you first posted this and it is a project I think upon very frequently! It's nice to see you have made further progress — and that there are comments with attempts at solving! Great job.
I still find some problems with the navigation of the problems, but I am not even sure where to go to fix that. It has to do with the difficulty of each problem, but also with how large each topic is: algebra encompasses both linear algebra and linear equation solving, which is a very wide bracket.
But you're making progress. That's great! Congratulations on that, and I'll be sure to keep visiting the website.
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4d4h
this comment has my heart, thank you!
i understand that the difficulty metric right now does not do justice to the problem's representation - i will come up with a better solution for this.
on the point of topic granularity - i understand that it feels vague right now but i also wonder what the depth should be. i will do some research on how to solve this better.
lastly, if you are interested, there's also a small community i am making around this - https://t.me/teachyourselfmath
thank you for all the feedback!
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4d8h
cool.
highly recommend to implement the review exercise style of https://www.executeprogram.com/!, both the UI, albeit with better theming (https://monkeytype.com/), and the spaced repition feature, all while keeping the hn styled comment section, although i'd let none-related comments run horizontally to click through different approaches/explanation(-styles).
you got a startup there. keep it affordable. 5 bucks a month after u get a propper UI and spaced repetition with different numbers integrated.
great, simple, idea! let the copycat-wars begin :D
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4d7h
hahaha thanks! it is easy to put up a paywall but like you rightly pointed out, i'd love to make something worth paying for. until then, i don't know what direction this project will be taking. i'll keep iterating.
thanks for writing in!
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4d7h
Maybe you can mention it on r/learnmath? A lot of people would be interested.
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4d7h
i posted here previously - https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmath/comments/19e8awk/i_wished...
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4d7h
Looks good, one quick thing: Maybe hide the comments behind a button? Now they are giving away the answer, as some have already posted it there in the first comments.
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4d7h
valid feedback. thanks, will add this!
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4d6h
Hey OP,
Love the headline. Very confident ;-)
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4d5h
Cool website! But I hope titles like these don't become common on HN - I really appreciate the 'no clickbait' policy here.
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4d4h
Cool, but all I see are comments and attempts at solutions. Are the actual correct solutions available somewhere in the app that I'm not seeing?
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4d5h
The font size is a little small on mobile and the layout breaks if you increase it.
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3d14h
Small nitpick, instead of having a "back to home" button on the left, maybe just make the logo in the navbar a link to the homepage.
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4d6h
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39113879 (92 Comments)
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4d2h
I love it! I also built a math focused website. Schools can use it to host Math-A-Thons, which is a type of fundraiser where students answer math problems online and solicit donations to support their school. I made all the math problems available to play for free outside of the platform, as well as guides that help the students answer the problems:
https://www.forourschool.org/math-games https://www.forourschool.org/math-guides
Yay Math!!
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4d6h
Hmm what about the UX/UI. I don't feel it
This looks really cool. Possible to connect with you to see how we can also use this for https://books.innings2.com/demo.
This is a free website for math content from grade 6-10th. This fits with our design philosophy. Want to see if we can make something interactive with vector-graph
That looks very cool! One piece of feedback if I may: I tried the section for “similar triangles” and I got through a few questions (love the content), but then it ends like this:
With no button to move forward, and no obvious conclusion text. At the bottom it says “1 of 3”. I’m not sure of there should have been some button letting me continue or if I’m supposed to press the menu button and just go to a different section because I’m done.
Hope this feedback is useful. The site looks great otherwise, and explained very clearly!
Hey. Thanks for trying it out and for taking the pains to share your feedback. Have seen some places where the content mismatch is happening and the continuation is missing. What we have realized is that getting the content creators(math educators) and the site creators(developers) to synch up is the biggest problem in this :)
We have done one round of content cleaning, hope to have most of the content with no issues by this month end.
Re: the X x Y x Z = 44 prime factorization problem.
If I started with 11 it gave an initial incorrect. It must be best practice to start with the lowest primes then for this sort of problem?
Yes. The component has this rule in place as thats how the educator decided to add the rule. But we are updating the component to include other options also.
so beautiful :) how much time did it take to build?
Thanks! I made it 2-3 years ago and IIRC it took me few months of weekend work; the things is that it was "easy" in the beginning, but for each combination of "feature" + "drawing type" things got a lot more complex, specially later on. e.g. when adding the option to shift the grid, or scale it, then I needed to change all of the drawing methods; or when I add a new drawing method, then it needs to work with all the other configs. So a lot of the code is basically dealings with these cases.
It also has a lot of logic trying to position things so that they look nice, specially around the axis arrows/numbers (since any overflow off the SVG would be cut off).
How many licenses have you sold?
Unfortunately none. Once I finished the library I realized I was barking at the wrong tree, meaning this would probably be better for high-value high integration business (B2B) rather than to sell to small blogs that have maths in them at B2C prices. But then I also got a job and so while the library works just fine, I haven't put the energy into selling it.
wow! this seems amazing. let me chalk out the roadmap for this site and reach out to you accordingly. thank you for your interest!
Oh that looks cool! I have a static page with some math content, could use this!
There's also Asymptote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptote_%28vector_graphics_l...
Are the diagrams interactive?
Also consider https://cortexjs.io/mathlive/ in case you need LaTeX WYSIWYG ordinary people can understand
I’m building a STEM tutor (https://withmarble.io). Right now it works for programming, but next is Math. I’ll test out your library and if it suits, I’ll buy a license. Thanks for sharing!
This is good work. Are there examples of sites that have used your library? There weren't any links on your website.