This is from an excellent Psmith review of Alexander Zvonkin’s Math from Three to Seven: The Story of a Mathematical Circle for Preschoolers – The… Read More »John Psmith on learning from neutered exercises vs real problems, red in tooth and claw
Attentive readers of the article I shared yesterday will have noticed Ted Chiang’s mention of a 2019 experiment in which “researchers taught rats how to… Read More »The Great Rodent Driving Experiment; or, Maserati
Many novelists have had the experience of being approached by someone convinced that they have a great idea for a novel, which they are willing… Read More »Ted Chiang: AI ain’t art
At its core, accounting is about keeping track of countable things over time. Some of the oldest documents archelogists have found register quantities in old… Read More »Recommendation: Matheus Portela on Double Entry Bookkeeping
Pelaksanaan – Indonesian – the process, method or action of doing something. Implementation. Execution. “Carrying out.” “The green is in the grey” (hat tip JR)… Read More »The Green is in the Grey; or, Pelaksanaan
Neutrinos… nicknamed ghost particles because of their uncanny properties… are the most abundant particles in the Universe — around 100 trillion pass harmlessly through your… Read More »Neutrino Bombshell
So, there aren’t really any incentives to teach well [as an economics professor]. No one really cares how you teach. But what I quickly learned… Read More »Steve Levitt on teaching, learning and having fun
… the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. Edward Gibbon – The History… Read More »Edward Gibbon and Zhuang Zi on teaching, learning and tacit knowledge
This is from an amazing explanation of the airfoil by Bartosz Ciechanowski – one of many physics / engineering demonstrations on his (highly recommended) website.… Read More »God’s own latency