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Microsoft, Khan Academy Partner to Make Khanmigo Teaching Tool Free

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Re: Microsoft, Khan Academy Partner to Make Khanmigo Teaching Tool Free

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free until they have enough training data

They are not using user data for training. It wouldn't be very useful data anyway, as it's all explicitly from people who are learning and highly structured/not freeform due to the input constraints.

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Khan - an English loanword from Middle Mongolian meaning "ruler". Migo - in the works of H.P. Lovecraft, a fundamentally alien race that has mastered neuroscience. Seems a little too much on the noise?

The Great Khans of Fallout, as portrayed by the band Migos

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is this different in effect from teacher resources like Classroom.com? Many websites provide teacher packs; this offering is a hyper-customized, always up-to-date version of the same.

It’s completely different for the reasons you already mentioned. It’s like saying an abacus and a (digital) calculator are the same.

An abacus and a calculator are the same.

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Khan - an English loanword from Middle Mongolian meaning "ruler". Migo - in the works of H.P. Lovecraft, a fundamentally alien race that has mastered neuroscience. Seems a little too much on the noise?

or Conmigo - with me

Re: Microsoft, Khan Academy Partner to Make Khanmigo Teaching Tool Free

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Khan - an English loanword from Middle Mongolian meaning "ruler". Migo - in the works of H.P. Lovecraft, a fundamentally alien race that has mastered neuroscience. Seems a little too much on the noise?

only you are reading that much into it i’m afraid

Re: Microsoft, Khan Academy Partner to Make Khanmigo Teaching Tool Free

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s completely different for the reasons you already mentioned. It’s like saying an abacus and a (digital) calculator are the same.

An abacus and a calculator are the same.

They are not the same. One is far more capable than the other. Can an abacus numerically solve a differential equation in a few seconds?

Re: Microsoft, Khan Academy Partner to Make Khanmigo Teaching Tool Free

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Khan - an English loanword from Middle Mongolian meaning "ruler". Migo - in the works of H.P. Lovecraft, a fundamentally alien race that has mastered neuroscience. Seems a little too much on the noise?

You are thinking too much. Khan is just a name and a very very common one at that. I don’t see any reason to make this attempt at a blending of amigo into khan the founder, who has a good reputation, into something it’s not. If you say the blending just is not good nor is the idea to begin with, I am with you :)

Re: Microsoft, Khan Academy Partner to Make Khanmigo Teaching Tool Free

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Khan - an English loanword from Middle Mongolian meaning "ruler". Migo - in the works of H.P. Lovecraft, a fundamentally alien race that has mastered neuroscience. Seems a little too much on the noise?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal_Khan
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