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Thanks so much for your response Vanderson! I wish I had known about How to Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Lessons when I was teaching my daughter. I definitely fumbled my way thr…

Hi havercosine, I would love to (my contact info is in my profile).

Hi numeromancer, I am surprised to hear mention of Engelmann and Project Follow Through here on HN :). I would love to connect and learn more about how you discovered DI. FWIW, I a…

Hi Vanderson, I am surprised to hear mention of Engelmann here on HN :). I would love to connect and learn more about how you discovered DI. FWIW, I am a former principal engineer …

In 2018, I took a year-long sabbatical from a FAANG company (FYI, I was principal level and it required VP approval). I had previously taken a few 1-3 month breaks between position…

Thanks so much for your response @sirspacey! > Framing education as lessons presumes that lessons are how people learn To clarify, are you thinking of a lecture instead of a lesson…

FWIW, this framing is the start of an essay I am writing about why the untold number of apps that purport to teach children to read fall far short and what can be done about it.

Before the 1870s, customers were expected to haggle over the price of retail goods. This interaction was not only bad for customers (e.g., image waiting in line while all the custo…

It depends how far down the rabbit hole you want to go :). I highly recommend checking out APM's documentaries on this issue ( https://features.apmreports.org/reading/ ). These are…

> surely the literacy crisis is a socio-economic problem not a technological one. Yes and no. It is, of course, not strictly a technological one, but the argument that it is a soci…

> what have you done so far So far, I am a week into learning ML :). I have spent ~30 hours watching various ML courses and am in the process of testing the hypothesis that teachin…

I would love to! My main goal is to use cognitive modeling to evaluate the efficacy of interventions and inform the personalized "minimum effective dose" for a particular learner. …

Great question! I seem to be in a similar situation as an experienced software engineer who has jumped into the deep end of ML. It seems most resources either abstract away too muc…

Congratulations on launching! I love the combination of an app coupled with physical books. It really demonstrates your understanding of your customers. * I would love to know more…

We are building an early childhood literacy app focused on explicitly and systematically teaching the skills of reading (e.g., phonological awareness, decoding, and sight recogniti…

I truly struggled with writing for the longest time, but three practices helped tremendously. The practices are 1) writing with a piecemeal approach, 2) accumulating notes as fuel …

I have built a proof of concept that demonstrates the core mechanics of the approach. The challenge is that my background is in backend development, and so the UX doesn't make a go…

I can so relate :). I left my position as a principal engineer at a FAANG/MAAMA/etc. company in 2020 with a general direction to try to make a difference in the education space. It…

Hi ultra_nick, >> trying to automate tutoring. >> what's the best way to statistically guage a student's knowledge level? As you have probably already discovered, there is quite a …

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, only 35% of U.S. fourth graders in 2019 could read proficiently [0]. The pandemic has only made this worse [1] [2]. On…

Is there a whitepaper that documents how PrepScholar "automatically learns the strengths and weaknesses of each student and creates an individualized learning program through machi…

It seems you would be far better served by something like Beast Academy [0] or Singapore Math [1]. A gifted and talented program generally just accelerates the core curriculum (i.e…

No, not yet. In brief, some of the key challenges seem to be: 1) Each person's internal representation of knowledge differs (see [0]). Therefore it is difficult to take someone els…

Hi nhatcher, You might be interested in https://github.com/google/mathsteps which is a CAS designed to automatically explain step-by-step a problem so that humans can learn from it…

LOL, I suppose "fiery email domain" could mean outlook/exchange if we think in terms of reliability. I updated it to "Microsoft's not cold email domain acquired in 1997".