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Surprised to see this here.

Perhaps for HN audience our blog posts about building this would be more interesting: https://blog.brilliant.org/a-world-class-tutor-in-every-home... and https://blog.brilliant.org/when-almost-right-is-catastrophic....

Happy to answer any questions or absorb any justified skepticism :)

In light of the LLM break throughs in the last couple of years, I've been returning his speculative essay about the source of symbolic thought every few months: https://nautil.us/the-kekul-problem-236574/

Since arikfr is on this thread – thank you so much for Redash. Our internal instance is at query ID 8500+ and everyone on the team relies on it for querying and alerting. Can't wait to see what happens with the resources to take on some of your more ambitious ideas!

Athos gear (https://www.liveathos.com/) is able to do live form feedback.

It gives me great pain to hear this.

Please do email me silas [at] brilliant.org, so I can figure out which failure mode you hit and evaluate if it has improved at all since you quit.

In addition, as others have noted, our courses have no community aspect to them at all.

Our site (brilliant.org) is designed for your use-case, among others.

This has been known for sometime, and is the reason we’ve built brilliant.org the way we have.

I’m sorry for the self-promotion, but it is extremely relevant in this case.

Not sure why this is being downvoted, it is at least a top two explanation for this phenomenon.

We (Brilliant) do have an introductory course on quantum mechanics as well. It goes into more of the phenomena (like spin, photons, etc.) than this computing course that mostly focuses on information. Let us know what you think: https://brilliant.org/courses/quantum-objects/

If Brilliant isn't your cup of tea – check out mcintyre's spin-first treatment. Generally speaking avoid any textbooks with cats on the cover (ie. Griffith's is popular but only so-so IMO). That being said, we went with a cat on our course ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Hi – it has been possible to delete your Brilliant account for several years. You can do so here: https://brilliant.org/account/social/connections/

Neat!

We have in the past! And we'd love to in the future. However, Grant doesn't need sponsors any longer since his Patreon is healthy, which is awesome.

If you're excited to actually do some problems by the end of the video, we just released our diff. eq. problem solving course: https://brilliant.org/courses/differential-equations/

$100M is still big money.

To cover pre-high school through undergrad: https://brilliant.org

If you like PE, you might love: https://brilliant.org/discussions/thread/forest-fires/ (includes in-browser Python runner, too).

Another good data source that I've used is https://www.farmmatch.com/.

Honestly, it only gets richer in the context of this comment from Kahneman. The core of the book (parts III and IV) don't rely on priming or other small N studies.

Similar in intention and scope to Keybase file sharing scheme.

Thunderbolt Cinema Displays required two cables to the machine -- data and power. So, not quite, right?

Sorry, bad link, but I can't edit my original post: https://keybase.io/warp

This part felt particularly applicable to the intellectual (and emotional) environment of young companies and the products they bring forth:

Many an idea or concept not only looks, but /is/ good in its infancy, yet turns destructive later in life. Scaling and maturation are not the obvious processes they appear to be because they take so much time that the accumulated effort is easy to overlook. To be successful, they must also be very carefully guided by people who can envision the end result, but that makes it appear to many as if it merely "happens".

The idea and the people that carry it out are intertwined because neither are static or even have any "essential" material whatsoever.

Worth reading just to have that thought articulated so well (once again).

<blog> changes per the referring publication, eg. try clicking through to edulender from here (http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/08/edulender-raises-1-million-...) will get you "welcome, techcrunch readers!".

live links: http://www.edulender.com/march8 and http://www.edulender.com/