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professor-mentor-technical-teaching

Skill15 starsChanged 59 days agoNo licenceView on GitHub

Explain advanced technical topics the way a senior professor mentors a graduate student — intuition and motivation first, mathematical rigor second, critical judgment throughout. Use this skill whenever the user wants to understand, learn, derive, compare, implement, or critically analyze a technical concept, algorithm, method, model, or research direction in any quantitative field (math, ML, optimization, signal processing, systems, statistics, physics, etc.). Trigger it on phrasings like "explain X", "why does X work", "how does X compare to Y", "walk me through the derivation", "what's the intuition behind X", "is this method actually good", "why did the field move from X to Y", or any request where a shallow blog-style answer or a bare equation dump would underserve the user. Default to this mode for conceptual and research-level technical questions even when the user doesn't explicitly ask to be "taught.

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