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> we're not even coding anymore, AIs will take the fun of it. Or... Writing a compiler from a large language test suite is already an LLM sweet spot. Writing code which is atypical…

Oh my... Braided stacking of a global pedagogic exploration supply chain? Conceptually a repo with long-term ngss and gaokao forks, and a third neutral space (IB schools?) integrat…

Yes, teaching and assessment of estimation can get quite dreadful. Wish I'd saved a video I saw years ago, intended as an exemplar of best practices in early primary, where it was …

Nod. A random TIL from Friday, courtesy to qwen.ai: In contrast to USA educational estimation, which emphasizes point estimates, China reportedly emphasizes directional estimation …

A kindergarten science education person suggested their kids have a human right to understand their world then , rather than a lifetime (for them) later. So atoms, etc. I think tha…

Like [1]. But for an "oh, that's cute", here's [2] Launching mass from the Moon helped by lunar gravity anomalies (2024). The Moon's gravity field has lumps (mascons), so low lunar…

Perhaps not when it's a failure to consider groupthink in others ? I don't often see something very vaguely like "Financial folks are anticipating X, but as a community they don't …

I played with XR UX years back. Three quick thoughts. I liked a hierarchy of context switching devices. Open tabs, windows, workspaces, for me are distracting clutter, scaled by so…

> right about everything else I suggest people greatly underestimate how localized expertise is. How very rapidly someone's expertise deteriorates as you move away from some focus,…

UX report: On desktop chromium, clicked on a "14 restaurants nearby" restaurant item, and... nothing changed on the map. Little idea where it is. Got address from popup and... map …

> unfortunately, WebXR restrictions make AR passthrough and the camera feed mutually exclusive It looks like Chromium-based browsers might be doable?[1][2] Meta: About a decade ago…

> [local, but for] extremely niche or higher intelligence tasks Access to a centralized copy of the web/literature/media, scraped and indexed/integrated, seems another non-local ce…

>> I consider the colormap choice to be completely arbitrary though > Arguing about colormap choice seems very strange to be – this is such a common practice in astronomy (and othe…

Similar issues arose with automated learning companions for XR. Mismatches between a learner's mental model of the companion, and its actual capabilities and limitations, can cause…

> the hidden state for different layers carry meaningful self-awareness signal for various situations. Is it plausible to wonder if some developer judgement feels, like maybe "the …

I'm not oriented, but am puzzled by the diagonal avenue - it's like a mirrored Broadway?

> Reach out (email in my profile), Meta thought: Having recently learned of WeChat Groups in China, I'm now repeatedly noticing situations where familiar alternatives are higher fr…

> What might it look like to lower the barriers AI as salonnière. It's not enough to get lots of interesting people in a room (as at a meetup). That merely gets you to "there are s…

> To build the dataset, we keep only sketches that have been recognized by the neural network in the QuickDraw game. To prevent imbalance from overly represented countries (e.g., t…

>> children figure out what they want to do and the learning comes along with it; the model views adults wanting children to learn something specific as generally counterproductive…

Yes, it's easy to forget context. Especially the time component. Several 100 k children will be born tomorrow. 100+ M in the coming year. Then in six years, almost all of them will…

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> What happens when the low-hanging fruit is gone? Depends on why it's gone? For example, before the shocker of Facebook buying Oculus, there was an active community of side-gig bu…

paper: https://arxiv.org/html/2602.03315v2 , Appendix Case Studies: https://arxiv.org/html/2602.03315v2#A5 , Prompts: https://arxiv.org/html/2602.03315v2#A1