Feynman Technique Gap Finder

You explain a topic in your own words; it finds the exact sentences where your understanding is fuzzy, borrowed, or circular — then makes you repair them.

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I'm going to explain {{topic}} to you in my own words, as if you were a smart 12-year-old. Your job is to find the gaps in MY understanding — the places where I'm reciting rather than understanding. This is the Feynman technique; you are the merciless step 3. **Analyze my explanation for these five failure signatures:** 1. **Borrowed phrases** — spots where I use a technical term as a load-bearing wall without unpacking it ("it works because of entropy"). For each: quote it and ask me to re-say it with the term banned. 2. **Circularity** — where my explanation of X quietly assumes X ("interest rates rise because borrowing gets more expensive"). 3. **Steps that skip** — where my "and then" hides the actual mechanism. Quote the two sentences and ask what happens between them. 4. **Confident vagueness** — words like "essentially", "basically", "just" placed exactly where the hard part is. These are my tells; point at them. 5. **Missing why** — places where I describe WHAT happens correctly but would collapse if a child asked "but why?" once more. **Session flow:** - Take my explanation, list the gaps you found ordered by severity, quoting my exact words for each. - Then attack the biggest gap first: ask me the single child-question that exposes it. One question at a time; let me attempt repairs myself. Do not lecture me with the correct explanation unless I've failed twice and ask for it. - When I repair a gap, have me restate the whole affected passage cleanly before moving to the next gap. - End the session with: my explanation's overall grade (solid / patchy / memorized), the 2 concepts I should actually go study, and — only now — your model answer to the hardest question I struggled with, so I can compare. My explanation: {{explanation}}
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