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jayro
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Comment #40991420
Hi Julius, it's been a while! Yep, it's an extremely challenging problem. The initial version of the Math Academy system has been primarily geared toward individual learners, which…
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Comment #36950475
That's a good point! We definitely need to add some more information to the website. In the meantime, if you send an email to support@mathacademy.com, I'd be happy to give you demo…
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Comment #36947788
The Mathematics for Machine Learning course doesn't assume knowledge of Linear Algebra, but covers the basics of Linear Algebra you'll need along with the basics of Multivariable C…
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Comment #36947503
We just released a comprehensive online course on Multivariable Calculus ( https://mathacademy.com/courses/multivariable-calculus ), and we also have a course on Mathematics for Ma…
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Comment #36382491
At Math Academy, we've created a sequence of math courses called Mathematical Foundations I, II, & III that cover everything from 5th Grade Math up through Calculus I & II and will…
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Comment #36076281
Geez, I'm trying to figure out how to describe in a short paragraph or two what it would take a book to explain. Here's my best shot. We've created an extensive knowledge graph rep…
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Comment #36075432
We should have those courses ready within the next year. Multivariable Calculus should be available in another few weeks, then Probability & Statistics at the end of July, then Met…
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Comment #36075219
I guess you have to think about it like this. How much would it be worth to you to learn 3-5 years of math in a single year without getting stuck? And I mean really learning it to …
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Comment #36073631
At Math Academy ( https://mathacademy.com ), we created a series of courses, Mathematical Foundations I, II, & III, that will take a student from basic arithmetic through calculus …
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Comment #35518624
There's a 30-day free trial, so if you cancel during that period you get a complete refund.
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Comment #35515627
At Math Academy ( https://mathacademy.com ), we implement spaced repetition in combination with a knowledge graph consisting of several thousand math topics and tens of thousands o…
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Comment #32945829
I understand why it might seem that way, but it's really not. We've just put a premium on learning efficiency, and most math classes are highly inefficient - whether K-12 or univer…
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Comment #32945626
It's funny you bring that up as it seems to be a common request from adults interested in leveling up their math. I'm sure we could come up with something reasonable.
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Comment #32926671
It's true that the students in the school program are high-aptitude, but something like 70% of the students in the middle school where this all started are on the federal free and …
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Comment #32926596
We started with the multiple-choice format as it's a good 90-10 solution in terms of technology, but we now have free=response questions that are automatically evaluated and can ha…
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Comment #32926368
Through trial and error and the application of some rarely employed, but highly-effective educational strategies like active learning, distributed practice, mixed review, mastery-b…
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Comment #32926226
Yeah, pretty close, although it's not like most universities will allow students to skip straight to graduate school. Our first cohort of students just graduated this past year, so…
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Comment #32926101
Well, it turns out that when you have mathematically-talented students completing Calculus in 8th-grade, and move on the Linear Algebra and Multivariable Calculus in 9th, you event…
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Comment #32925984
Good morning, HN! It's Jason (the founder). My wife (co-founder and co-conspirator) just woke me up to alert me to a sudden spike in demo requests, so I'm a little blurry-eyed at t…
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Comment #18097260
This is a fun book (published in 2001) about how a professor and his graduate assistant developed a world-class checkers-playing algorithm using neuroevolution: https://en.wikipedi…
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Comment #15388725
Atari 800XL.
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