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This course was wonderful when I took it a few years ago. Just heard the next offering starts in April, so I'm curious to see how it's evolved. From the creators: Learning Creative…

Fun read. Haha I also love the idea of being a mathematical braid. Arrival is a great film, but my favorite fictional take on this kind of thinking is still Slaughterhouse-Five. Li…

I took one of the group's courses, Linear Algebra: Foundations to Frontiers, for fun at the beginning of COVID lockdown and loved it. Here's the course that teaches their basic app…

This is the first time I've "seen" Shinjuku Station. What a beautiful introduction. I first read about the station in Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage and alway…

And here I was feeling cheeky. In all seriousness, I just learned about Sandstorm and think it could be a great fit for a local co-op I’m building. It’s a shame about the startup, …

I found this helpful in getting started with Sandstorm: https://youtu.be/y6120QOlsfU

Yep. For a bit more context, here’s the Wikipedia article on climate justice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_justice The “Disproportionality between causality and burden” se…

Thanks! And big thanks to martinRenou1 for his work on ipycanvas!! He did most of the heavy lifting.

JupyterLite is great! I use it heavily with my middle school math students — wonderful to have NumPy, matplotlib, and friends available without needing to set up accounts. I create…

Agreed except for the dig at Mark Jacobson. He was my undergrad and grad advisor, and I only knew him to be driven by data and a deep concern for the welfare of people and the plan…

Great question! The studies do consider the spatio-temporal distribution of generation and demand. Here's a recent paper [1] that develops roadmaps for 145 countries and has infogr…

Really glad to see this discussion! My former advisor, Mark Jacobson, is one of the authors of the paper cited in the article. His book "100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage fo…

Some robots made a cool musical about this: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nZZjkBu_E4olFSb5Ey...

Love that paper. Wickham also made his ggplot2 book freely available: https://ggplot2-book.org/

You could take Strang’s follow-up course on learning from data. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-065-matrix-methods-in-data-an...

Shameless plug for my mentee: p5.teach aims to be a beginner-friendly version of manim that runs in the browser. https://github.com/two-ticks/p5.teach.js https://medium.com/process…

Shameless plug: I recently mentored a GSoC student who built a beginner-friendly graphing library on top of p5.js. His aim is to make it easier for educators to create manim-qualit…

Shameless plug: I’m mentoring a student who is building a beginner-friendly version of manim on top of p5.js for his Google Summer of Code Project - check it out! https://two-ticks…

OpenStax books are a great resource! I reference them in the high school math classes I teach.

I'm taking a refresher course on linear algebra from UT Austin and love their approach - good mix of algorithms, proofs, exercises, and coding assignments. http://ulaff.net/

Taiga is another option that you can host yourself. https://taiga.io

It's definitely possible but the Scratch Blocks [1] wiki [2] is indeed a little sparse. VEXcode Blocks [3] seem to be a successful product, so somebody must have figured it out. [1…

This is great work! I’m a fan of blockp5.js’ approach to the problem: take a beginner-friendly JavaScript environment (p5.js) and add a blocks. https://github.com/ycatch/blockp5.js…