I hate to say it, but proofschool is a really bad name for this.
Thinking back to being a kid, I would not like to tell my peer group that I was going to proofschool, as the obvious mockery available from that name would be merciless.
Proof School
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#12Sorry, but this is the worst designed website I've been forced through for a while. Takes forever to load. Unreadable until loaded. Once loaded there is very little content per page. Except the one giving bios, which is unreadable because all of the usual methods of scrolling jump to the following page rather than scrolling smoothly. Any technical parents with kids in the right age are simply not going to read this.…
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The pressing back multiple times issue appears to be an iPad only bug. Something to look more into!
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#13This looks like a wonderful initiative. I hope they succeed, I always have hope that we it is possible to offer some alternative to our mainstream education, which can be painful if you fall outside of the mainstream.
As a side note it's also really lovely to read something uplifting here on HN. I am not asking to stop featuring PRISM stories etc., they are very important. But it seems easy to forget that there are bunches of smart curious people around who yearn to learn and to teach interesting things. Thank god for them :)
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#14Sorry, but this is the worst designed website I've been forced through for a while. Takes forever to load. Unreadable until loaded. Once loaded there is very little content per page. Except the one giving bios, which is unreadable because all of the usual methods of scrolling jump to the following page rather than scrolling smoothly. Any technical parents with kids in the right age are simply not going to read this.…
Agreed on the worst usability for a web-site I've used in a long time. Flash restaurant web-sites are easier than this. Just awful.
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#15I hate to say it, but proofschool is a really bad name for this. Thinking back to being a kid, I would not like to tell my peer group that I was going to proofschool, as the obvious mockery available from that name would be merciless.
I don't think there is a way to tell your 7th grade peers you are going to a math camp for the summer that wouldn't end in mockery.
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#16Bit of a stretch, but when I read the title, I thought it was going to be a satire about how the main functions of schools now days seems to be social proof and nothing else (PROOF school!).
Pretty much anything you learn in school, you can learn on your own or with a much cheaper tutor. We only go to school so that we can say we have a 'background' on a subject, when really, we went to class hungover or slept through the passionless lectures. The real learning happened in the library when we read the textbooks ourselves.
Kind of what the Soylent guy is going through. He probably knows a lot about biology and human physiology from self-teaching, but because he 'doesn't have a background' (i.e. didn't sit through 4 years of ineffective lectures), society doesn't give him any credibility. I wonder if there is another way we can scale 'proof' without having to go through that waste of time we call college.
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#17Sorry, but this is the worst designed website I've been forced through for a while. Takes forever to load. Unreadable until loaded. Once loaded there is very little content per page. Except the one giving bios, which is unreadable because all of the usual methods of scrolling jump to the following page rather than scrolling smoothly. Any technical parents with kids in the right age are simply not going to read this.…
At the bottom of the page, the link[1] says "powered by Strikingly." I'm not sure that this is good advertising for SaaS that promises "gorgeous, mobile-optimized sites in minutes."
The founders of the school include mathematics teachers I know, and I think they are the real deal. I have had long conversations with one of those mathematicians at MathPath[2], which was a very good program for my oldest son, now a hacker.
[1] https://www.strikingly.com/?ref=logo&permalink=proofschool
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#18I hate to say it, but proofschool is a really bad name for this. Thinking back to being a kid, I would not like to tell my peer group that I was going to proofschool, as the obvious mockery available from that name would be merciless.
I don't think there is a way to tell your 7th grade peers you are going to a math camp for the summer that wouldn't end in mockery.
I know counterexamples. Indeed, I know counterexamples for even younger children.
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#19"DOWNTOWN SF. 2015. QED." As far as I know, this isn't an appropriate use of QED.
And among actual mathematicians the Halmos tombstone is more popular nowadays, anyway. It feels less haughty.
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#20Sorry, but this is the worst designed website I've been forced through for a while. Takes forever to load. Unreadable until loaded. Once loaded there is very little content per page. Except the one giving bios, which is unreadable because all of the usual methods of scrolling jump to the following page rather than scrolling smoothly. Any technical parents with kids in the right age are simply not going to read this.…
It loaded pretty quickly for me, but it is probably not under heavy load any more.
The page is smoothly scrolling now.