
Newstart
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Newstart
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MAXP is new credit. AI is cheap, show me your XP.




every time I simplified a complex problem to this bad boy over there I won

A couple of weeks ago, I discovered that two of the five students from @justinskycak's first Eurisko class (CS/ML variant of our high-school Math Academy program), which he taught remotely as an experiment during the pandemic year, will be starting PhD programs in quantum computing this fall: Eli at Michigan and Riley at UCLA. I emailed them both after discovering this (one is the son of a good friend from college), and after getting in touch with each other, they realized that they're researching almost the exact same topic! Quantum entanglement, I guess. 😀










Believe in the Hail Mary. Watch the final trailer for Project Hail Mary — only in theaters and IMAX, March 20.


Role of Teachers in the Math Academy Classroom New @_MathAcademy_ podcast episode with @exojason & @ninja_maths, posted here and everywhere else (see comment) 00:00 - Introduction 02:56 - What is the teacher’s role alongside Math Academy? 05:37 - Math Academy frees up teachers to do the human parts of teaching 07:03 - Projects are great if students have the prerequisite skills 07:42 - Drills without context are boring 08:43 - Games without skills are inefficient 11:14 - Build fun activities on top of a solid foundation of skills 12:15 - Teachers can tailor the class to the students’ preferences 13:28 - Implementing mastery learning is too much work for a single teacher 15:27 - Doing projects without prerequisites is frustrating 16:57 - True empowerment is giving kids the skills they need to succeed 19:30 - Missing skills compound in hierarchical skill trees 24:06: Lack of automaticity in lower level skills slows down higher level tasks 27:14 - The MA team builds and improves courses through experience 29:21 - The MA team targets tasks with low pass rates for additional scaffolding 31:03 - Alex built knowledge graph intuition through years of experience 37:40 - Social media enforces hyper-accountability 39:19 - Differential equations courses are often a hodgepodge of disjointed techniques 43:20 - Math Academy university courses are a superset of elite university content 45:18 - Differential equations is a highly branching subject 49:21 - The breadth of Differential Equations makes it often poorly taught












