DeepSeek

DeepSeek — User Guide

Top-tier Chinese model with strong reasoning; free tier available.

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Strengths
  • Completely free, no need to pay to use the strongest inference model DeepSeek-R1
  • Top-notch mathematics and code reasoning capabilities, comparable to OpenAI o1
  • No need to circumvent the wall, direct domestic access, fast speed
  • Open source model supports local deployment and secondary development
  • Balanced bilingual ability in Chinese and English, especially excellent in understanding Chinese
Best for
  • Mathematics problem solving and proof (college entrance examination, competition, college mathematics)
  • Code generation, debugging and algorithm problem solving
  • Complex logical reasoning and multi-step analysis
  • Paper reading and academic content understanding
  • Daily Chinese writing, summary and translation

Basic dialogue and reasoning

DeepSeek's reasoning mode (R1) will show the complete thinking process and is very suitable for tasks that require rigorous derivation.

Scenario

Use deep thinking mode to solve complex math problems

Prompt example
Please use deep thinking mode to answer the following questions:




Prove: For any positive integer n, n³ - n is divisible by 6.
Output / what to expect

DeepSeek R1 will display the complete inference chain:

  • Factor n³ - n into n(n-1)(n+1)

  • Show that this is the product of three consecutive integers

  • Prove that it must contain multiples of 2 and multiples of 3

  • therefore divisible by 6

The thinking process is transparent and logical.

Tips

Click the "Deep Thinking" button to enable R1 mode, which is suitable for scenarios that require strict reasoning such as mathematical proofs and logical derivation.

Scenario

Comparative analysis of two technical solutions

Prompt example
I need to choose a caching solution for a web application with 100,000
daily users. Please compare and analyze:




Option A: Redis cluster


Option B: Local memory cache (such as Caffeine)




Analyze and give recommendations from the four dimensions of performance, cost,
operation and maintenance complexity, and data consistency.
Output / what to expect

DeepSeek will provide a structured four-dimensional comparative analysis table and comprehensively consider the daily activity scale.

Recommend the Redis cluster solution and explain in which scenarios local caching is more suitable.

Tips

By providing specific business scale and constraints, DeepSeek's analysis will be more targeted.

Code development assistance

DeepSeek excels at code generation and algorithmic questions, and is particularly good at Python, JavaScript, and C++.

Scenario

Solve LeetCode algorithm questions and explain the ideas

Prompt example
Please answer LeetCode question 146 LRU cache, requirements:


1. Give Python implementation


2. Time complexity O(1)


3. Explain in detail the reasons for choosing the data structure


4. Analyze boundary conditions
Output / what to expect

DeepSeek will provide an implementation using OrderedDict or doubly linked list + hash table.

Explain why a combination of these two data structures is needed,

And handle boundary cases such as capacity=0, with detailed code comments.

Tips

Algorithm questions plus the requirements of "explaining ideas" and "analyzing boundary situations" can provide more complete learning materials.

Scenario

Generate SQL queries and optimize

Prompt example
There is the following table structure:


- orders(id, user_id, amount, created_at, status)


- users(id, name, email, created_at)




Please write a SQL query: find the users whose total consumption exceeds 1,000
yuan in the past 30 days.


Sorted in descending order by total consumption, display user name, email address,
number of orders, and total consumption.




At the same time, analyze the performance bottleneck of this query and recommend
how to add indexes.
Output / what to expect

Output complete SQL with JOIN, GROUP BY, HAVING, ORDER BY,

And pointed out that a joint index needs to be built on orders(user_id, created_at, status),

Explain the reasons for index selection.

Tips

Providing a complete table structure, the SQL generated by DeepSeek is more accurate and can also give more targeted optimization suggestions.

Chinese writing and content creation

DeepSeek's Chinese writing capabilities are outstanding among domestic models and are suitable for all types of Chinese content production.

Scenario

Write professional technical blog posts

Prompt example
Please write a technical blog with the title "Understanding Transformer
Attention Mechanism from Scratch" for readers who have basic Python but no deep
learning background.




Requirements:


- Explain the attention mechanism using metaphors from life


- Contains simple explanations of mathematical formulas (just use text descriptions)


- With pseudocode examples


- Approximately 800 words in length


- Markdown format
Output / what to expect

Output a technical blog with a clear structure, and use life metaphors such as “looking up a dictionary” to explain attention.

Contains an intuitive explanation of Q/K/V matrices and simple Python pseudocode,

Suitable for introductory technical readers.

Tips

Clarify the background knowledge level of the target readers, and DeepSeek will automatically adjust the depth of the content.

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