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This makes total sense. I have also been very careful to not let LinkedIn get access to my email or contacts - precisely cause I don't trust what they will do with that data on my …

DragonBox is one of my favorites to teach basic algebra to my eight year old nephew: http://www.dragonboxapp.com/ . It came out of a research project at U of Washington. I also lov…

You definitely have the right perspective. If I put my kid's hat on, it definitely would be fun. Doing the simplest things with my nieces and nephews are extremely fun :)

Ha totally agree. The loops and vicious turns are central to a roller coaster (and being tied to the track). Without those, sledding is way better cause you can get some serious ai…

Yea I thought the most interesting thing was the very brief mention of "Future models might use one of the gecko-inspired materials that let people climb up walls using Van der Waa…

Yea this is great. As an applied math major in college, modeling was my favorite class with so many variations of ABMs with Monte Carlo randomness. Like you, I was focused on socia…