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Andrew Gelman: "No, I don’t think that this study offers good evidence that installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits." https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/01/09/no-i-dont-... (Adding this older link here for cross reference)

A thread on Gelman's article is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22006595.

Full title: A molecular genetics perspective on the heritability of human behavior and group differences

This essay and "On Thinking for Oneself" are part of his book Parerga and Paralipomena.

Other sources of Water Gun comparisons:

CNET - https://www.cnet.com/home/yard-and-outdoors/best-water-guns/

Wirecutter - https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/what-is-the-best-wat...

Just tested with 7000 books in the want-to-read list so passes the scalability test. Recommendations in decreasing priority: 1. Age > 75 is important, many older but super valuable books didn't show up as a result. Upto 200 years ago is good enough but we'd still miss Aristotle etc. 2. Ratings and Reviews should also have a higher or infinite upper bound, I'm not sure how the front end would look.

Agreed. The uniform thought that school is good and a must for each kid is an issue. Education in the pure sense is a good thing but assuming that schools will find a way to educate each child optimally is tough. There's a lot more nuance and effort needed, especially from parents. I also feel that children's intuition's are mostly correct about things that are wrong with school and should be trusted more.

This is a tough phase. Children do fight hard to find themselves but they get done in by an authoritative and somewhat disingenuous system that puts them into a mimetic compliant attitude rather than the way they used to act when they were 4 or 5 years of age - their golden age of discovery.

My take is that children need more attention than ever when they've kind of disconnected from the world but the attention needs to be extremely competent as well as caring - a really tough combination.

I heard this recently - "For the median student, the education system mostly wants to make the student do things they don't want to do. It's not about helping them achieve their goals more easily or more effectively. For the most part, it's about achieving goals that aren't theirs" https://youtu.be/dmeRQN9z504?si=AWqDy3cHhgh5oa_Q&t=12

Context - https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2024/11/20/a-pla...

Source: https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/81-fundamentals-o...

Original link: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/147253/7/147253.pdf

Early magazines in US - https://daily.jstor.org/reading-aloud-in-the-early-republic/

Thanks for this as a fellow Goodreads power user. Would look forward to a chrome plugin if in your plans that helps sort my book lists.

1979 memo from Jef Raskin - early Apple employee, kicked off the project that would eventually become the Macintosh.

Raskin Remembers "Computers by the Millions" - https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/docs/cbm...

Mindset and leadership (explore other titles by Gerald M. Weinberg as well)

- An Introduction to General Systems Thinking

- Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

So that you have a good answer to "when will it be ready"

- Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art

- Agile Estimating and Planning

People management

- The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

- High Output Management

Besides Mythical Man Month already mentioned in other comments.

Previous discussion (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12441990

Open source project to quantify and track humanity's advancements.

Related link https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/ covers Hypersonics, Beginner's Guide to Kites, Kid's Page explaining how airplanes and jet engines work, Beginner's Guide to Model Rockets, Beginner's Guide to Propulsion, Aerodynamics of Baseball, Aerodynamics of Soccer. It has some repetition with respect to the main link.

New Cities by Adora Cheung - https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/new-cities Related discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11987032

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) had notable contributions in ideas such as Leap of faith, Existential despair, Existential philosophy, Angst, Authenticity etc. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard

Jefferson: "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly bodily powers gave place among the aristoi. But since the invention of gunpowder has armed the weak as well as the strong with missile death, bodily strength, like beauty, good humor, politeness and other accomplishments, has become but an auxiliary ground of distinction. There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents; for with these it would belong to the first class. The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society... May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government? The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendancy."

John Adams: "I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine."

Also covered on Fast Company: https://www.fastcompany.com/90944990/ikeas-radical-innovatio...

A quick way to get up to date with what SPACE10 did is to look at their

- Projects: https://web.archive.org/web/20230130180533/https://space10.c...

- Exhibition Catalogue: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17M3aKA90YmFINIwt0Nf0...

Unified Health Interface (UHI) is a network of open protocols that enable the interoperability in health services - https://uhi.abdm.gov.in/

Original archived article - https://web.archive.org/web/20111122075041/https://msdn.micr...

Couldn't help but nod my head off - absolute truth that applies to so many other things.

What does "Technologically-assured trust" entail, is this related to "Cryptographically-assured trust"?

The precise link is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh#Artistic_brea.... The anchor in the URL got removed while posting.