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Math is full of such steps, moreso than most other endeavors, probably because the main limit is the abstract reasoning itself. That, as well as how long we've been doing it (thous…

I've been admining our family minecraft servers for about 5 years, and just handed off that job to my 12 year old daughter who now knows more than enough of the linux command-line …

I'm still teaching my kids to code. I'm interested to hear if I'm increasingly alone in this, or if others are doing it too. A few years ago I was firmly in the camp who felt progr…

These are pretty terrible, but for me there were at least a few moments where they genuinely became "so bad they're awesome". They actually re-enforced an idea I keep coming back t…

A couple of times I've tried somewhat seriously to build "google docs for ableton" (meaning two people editing the same project on different computers, seeing each other's edits in…

It's nice to see peoples' success stories with diagnoses. I've been suffering from something for more than 20 years now. I was healthy until 2005. Then it seemed like I got sick wi…

My 15 year old is devouring them right now. She pauses dozens of times every day to tell me the best jokes. I love it.

"... though when it tried to animate it the bicycle bounced off into the top and the bicycle got warped." Should be the pelican bounced off.

I read them as a teenager, and now my teenaged daughter has started reading them. They are every bit as good as I remember them being.

A complaint asking what this has to do with hackers or hacking.

A question I enjoy asking myself when I'm wondering about this stuff is "if there are alien mathematicians in a distant galaxy somewhere, do they know about this?" For complex numb…

This is the approach I've settled on. My kids get a very small amount of actual youtube time each week. If they find a new channel they really like, they pitch it to me. If I think…

Imagine buying a tennis racket and being interrupted, as you are playing, to be told to buy something else. Sadly I've come to believe the pendulum is going to have to swing about …

It’s your brain working as intended. As intended by whom?

Sure, but I think there's plenty of room for people to say "I found this pattern that looks really interesting!" without analyzing it further themselves.

It's just "turtle": https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html

I started my kids on turtle graphics. There's a good implementation that comes with python that's very easy to get up-and-running, to the point where it quite reminds me of BASIC o…

Honestly my first reaction to seeing these photos was to wonder if they were AI-generated (I'm not suggesting they are, I just have that response quite often now).

It's been a long time since I've been a regular reader of any newspaper, but when I was (admittedly at least 20 years ago!) I don't remember it being that way at all. Can you sugge…

Yes, and all of these dates would be considered "young" by most mathematicians!

Congrats on your progress! Over the past few years, while homeschooling my daughters, I've come to see the way math is usually taught as horribly pathological. In the US, where we …