"Spaced repetition is a centuries-old psychological technique for efficient memorization & practice of skills where instead of attempting to memorize by ‘cramming’, memorization can be done far more efficiently by instead spacing out each review, with increasing durations as one learns the item, with the scheduling done by software. Because of the greater efficiency of … Continue reading Spaced Repetition for Efficient Learning
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OKIDO Magazine
"OKIDO’s philosophy is a simple one: every child is a creative scientist.The OKIDO world immerses young children in a spectrum of playful activities and media, all intelligently designed by science and education experts. Whether watching the TV show ‘Messy goes to OKIDO’, engaging in family events and school workshops, or reading high quality publications and products, … Continue reading OKIDO Magazine
Noba
"Noba is a free online platform that provides high-quality, flexibly structured textbooks and educational materials. These textbooks and materials are licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License. Users may reuse, redistribute, and remix the content to suit their needs.The goals of Noba are three-fold:* To reduce financial burden on students by providing … Continue reading Noba
The 85% Rule of Learning
"...we learn best when we aim to grasp something just outside the bounds of our existing knowledge. When a challenge is too simple, we don’t learn anything new; likewise, we don’t enhance our knowledge when a challenge is so difficult that we fail entirely or give up. We learn best when we aim to grasp … Continue reading The 85% Rule of Learning
Brahmin Left vs. Merchant Right: Rising Inequality and the Changing Structure of Political Conflict
ConclusionsGlobalisation/migration (domestic vs external inequality) and educational expansion (education vs property inequality) have created new multi-dimensional conflicts about inequality, leading to the collapse of the postwar left-vs-right party system.Why didn’t democracy reduce inequality?Because multi-dimensional coalitions are complicated.Without a strong egalitarian-internationalist platform, it’s difficult to have the low-education, low-income voters from all origins vote for the … Continue reading Brahmin Left vs. Merchant Right: Rising Inequality and the Changing Structure of Political Conflict
Liberatory Education | The Hedgehog Review
"In a psychic context, racial reparations may be less obviously needed, but needed nonetheless, for those of us from white families and communities that practice racial thoughtlessness. We, too, need to study race and racism in order to understand ourselves, because the implicit attitudes about race that we have consciously and unconsciously created and accepted … Continue reading Liberatory Education | The Hedgehog Review
Open Syllabus Project, Visualized
"A new interactive visualization from Open Syllabus turns this trove of data into a color-coded stippling of different-sized dots, each one representing a particular text. Float over each dot and a box appears in the corner of the screen, showing the number of syllabi that have assigned the text, and a link to a profile … Continue reading Open Syllabus Project, Visualized
Goodhart’s Law & The Ivy League
"Two years ago I was at an event in Boston and I happened to sit at a dinner table across from a guy widely recognized to be one of the most brilliant people in the world. We talked mostly about AI but at one point the conversation turned to hiring, and he told me that for … Continue reading Goodhart’s Law & The Ivy League
Adult Language Learning
"If you’re in an English speaking school for 5 hours a day as a kid and your parent is studying the same language for an hour a day while you’re there and the kid learns 5 times faster than the parent, is it fair to then conclude that kids learn better than adults?" —Scott Chacon, … Continue reading Adult Language Learning
AI For Everyone
"AI is not only for engineers. If you want your organization to become better at using AI, this is the course to tell everyone--especially your non-technical colleagues--to take. In this course, you will learn: - The meaning behind common AI terminology, including neural networks, machine learning, deep learning, and data science - What AI realistically … Continue reading AI For Everyone
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