moffers

I was about to be very excited that my bachelors in Philosophy might become relevant on its face for once in my life! But, I’m not sure that flexing that professionally is going to get me at the top of any neat AI projects.

But wouldn’t that be great?

There’s a parallel because Promises in a language like JavaScript are “monad-like”, so they’re similar to the IO Monad here. I am not a functional wizard so I’m sure that was not a fair comparison in some way, but it’s how I have thought of it. They’re both a representation of a side effect and require that effect be respected before you can get to the value inside it

Interesting article for anyone who was enrolled in an academic “Gifted and Talented” program in their school system.

Where are the parents? This is easily addressed with a discussion about the importance of learning for yourself, and some accountability. They’re only 11.

You said it already! “Intuitive”.

I like the idea, but I feel like in the context of an enterprise there can be other non-coder roles to help maintain a mental model for future “generations”. As a Technical Product Manager I don’t help with coding often, but usually will create onboarding documentation centered around the “theory” of the system’s programming to help cut down on churn if we bring in new resources.

I’m really very excited by this. Creating local chatbots/local LLM applications has become such a fun exercise, and SQLite has been my go to for starting projects anyway

I appreciate attempts to disrupt things, but education seems to be one of those verticals that seems to be allergic to disruptive technologies. Education seems like it can either be very specialized, or very generalized, but at the end of the day it should be egalitarian. If this approach to education works, would we be able to have every teacher in every school in America adopt it? I have to imagine the resources needed to train the teachers, distribute the technology, acclimate the parents, and then do this all on a scale such that no one is left out or treated better if you didn’t happen to go to an “AI” school makes for a tough hill to climb.

I think a lot of the real issues with solving problems in education is that they have trouble applying to the larger picture of compulsory education.