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Sue
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Everyone is a math personNike: Everyone is an athlete Apple: Everyone is an artist Shopify: Everyone is an entrepreneur Cursor: Everyone is a developer Cluly: Everyone cheats What's about your company?- How learning products give feedback: “Incorrect. You pressed the jump button too early.” Super Mario: Fall into the pit and die. 1/ Since Brilliant’s early days, we’ve been chasing that same visceral learning experience – the kind where understanding clicks through doing, not
- Replying to @akothariI believe most people do want to work on more pressing problems. It will require a big shift in personal and collective values to escape the current attractor. It’s a trite observation now, but we’ve raised our best to be averse to risk and real possibility of failure.
- Replying to @cjcAnother childhood SNAP recipient here. Food assistance makes a huge difference. My family went from poverty to both children becoming founders and job creators. You’re much more likely to pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have enough to eat.
- This definitely works. She was 3 at the time, we did 10 mins/day of reading. Now 4 and reads chapter books. She also likes watching TV, which I suspect is likely net-good in reasonable doses. In early childhood, reading ability is gated by oral/aural ability. High listening
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02:331. This spring I've been working on a guide for teaching very early reading outside of school. It's simpler than some might think (fun progress video attached). The first steps are *finally* published today. - A beautiful essay on the future of learning online, based on interactive play and the 4 freedoms of play.We need to talk about how important interactive play is in learning. An essay. pcho.medium.com/the-key-to-lea…
- Things mathematicians do, that LLMs still struggle to do: 1/ Mapping a problem to a simpler, isomorphic problem; having novel insights about what problems are isomorphic 2/ Reducing the complexity of the problem to be solved by solving a special case of it first 3/ Checking the
- I think about this a lot. How much the best scientist on Earth 400 years ago would have given to know what a competent 15 year old knows today. How this knowledge on its own doesn’t make us better scientists and truth seekers. How today, LLMs can explain all human knowledge on
- Thought of the perfect name for a venture fund founded by the super team of @SBF_FTX @ElizabethHolmes @MartinShkreli: Conviction Capital
- Incredible that, 17 years in, @salkhanacademy is still plugging away at making YouTube teaching videos. He uploaded 28 in the past week. Most of them accumulate <200 views in the first few days, then slowly compound over time. This is schlep blindness at its finest. I suspect
