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This article by the peerless @flowidealism is likely to be very helpful for anybody thinking about their kids' humanities education michaelstrong.substack.com/p/the-value-of…

This is how one student transitioned from a non-technical career as a translator to a demanding engineering specialty (malware analysis) in 2 years, through self study:

Birds flap their arms; bats flap their hands

Funny thing is, children's encyclopedias are better than ever, just organized quite differently (and mostly published by DK)

Seeking founding teacher for a pioneering elementary school on the California coast. Launch rockets, direct movies, build monumental sculpture, figure out how we’re all going to team up with technology to grow high agency, high achievement kids and the future of education. DM me!

My good friend @timolsh recently launched watchpointlabs.com providing security + compliance as a service for early-stage companies. Take a look if you're in the market!

I'm sure this is well intentioned, but how can you look at the US school system's track record with say mathematics and wish to condemn CS and AI to an even worse fate? Better IMHO to support extra curricular programs like FIRST Robotics and @hackclub

If you expect knowledge work to look very different in 20 years, and have reflected on how this should inform K-12 education, I'd be curious to hear your thoughts

Huh, I had no idea that Travis Kalanick is a backgammon nerd. He just bought the best training/analysis program and hopes to push the state of the art. This is bold because backgammon is considered solved, enough that tournament scores are calculated against AI optimality

The meta challenge here is to debug the program based solely on the output!

🧵 My 3rd book is now out! It is on the fascinating history of math. How did people throughout history think about math?What problems did they care about? How did they express them? How were they solved? This book includes a lot of historical math. a.co/d/gsoNKxP

I wrote what I hope is a balanced review of Math Academy. In short it can be very effective at building procedural fluency, but you need to decide for yourself whether that's your core goal.

csprimer was the real gateway drug to lifetime technical learning because it proved to me I could simply - almost mundanely - look under the hood and understand concepts from first principles. I also have a bittersweet feeling because I could have started much earlier if knew.

I feel like my main job as a teacher is to recalibrate students' beliefs about what's even worth learning and doing. So, it's very reassuring to get feedback like this!