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May 11, 2025
If you’ve done honest work, you should be able to back it up.
May 6, 2025
When the time comes to get back into the swing of things, it’s a lot easier to speed up a slow wagon that you’re on, than to get back on a wagon that you’ve completely fallen off of.
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Asking a model to extrapolate is like asking a pig to fly.
Apr 18, 2025
… is that it has to be robust to all sorts of behavior arising from the various human emotional experiences associated with learning & intense training.
Apr 6, 2025
We tend to vastly underestimate how much of our problem-solving ability comes down to accumulated domain expertise.
Apr 5, 2025
“Wait, am I… cracked? No way. But I just did this thing that I’ve seen cracked people do and I wasn’t able to that before. Holy shit I’m actually getting cracked.”
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It makes sense when you think about the underlying interests that shape the behavior of students and teachers.
Mar 24, 2025
… is to skip over computational practice and lose touch with the concrete meaning of things.
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A simple but powerful approach to note taking
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During its operation from 2020-23, Eurisko was the most advanced high school math/CS track in the USA. It culminated in high school students doing masters/PhD-level coursework (reproducing academic research papers in artificial intelligence, building everything from scratch in Python). It’s still early and the first cohort hasn’t even graduated from college yet, but there have already been some amazing student outcomes in terms of college admissions, accelerated graduate degrees, research publications, and science fairs.
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Mastery learning – one of the most reliable, largest-effect-size techniques for elevating student learning outcomes – centers on learning prerequisites. In fact, the famous Two-Sigma Problem is centered around the effectiveness of mastery learning.
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You want to peel back layers of weirdness.
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The solution that’s worked best for me is to get learners thinking about where they were a few months ago.
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This might feel obvious, but many learners don’t fully grasp the implications, and as a result, end up not actually learning much.
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You are maximizing a product, not a sum.
Feb 13, 2025
It’s not just that the expert thinks differently from the novice. It’s also that the expert literally perceives information differently to begin with. And the driving force behind this is long-term memory.
Feb 12, 2025
If you don’t practice retrieving information from memory, it dissipates quickly and almost entirely.
Feb 11, 2025
Just like successfully lifting a heavy weight forces your body to adapt to strengthen muscles, successfully recalling a fuzzy memory (lengthy wait) forces your brain to adapt to strengthen memory.
Feb 9, 2025
Bad / insufficient / non-comprehensive training data, inability to fit new data that’s too different from the current representation, lack of compute power, running behaviors/algorithms that make inefficient use of available data / compute power.
Feb 8, 2025
Avoid the vicious cycle of “I only use A because I don’t like B because I can’t remember how to use B because I only use A.”
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And why maximizing learning efficiency is such a big lever in maximizing student potential.
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No. Math Academy’s foundations series that goes from fractions to first-year university is benchmarked about 15,000 XP, about 250 hours of focused work. Of course, there’s plenty of university math to dig your teeth into after that, but that’s the order of magnitude of work we’re talking.
Jan 22, 2025
Learning is a positive change in long-term memory. By creating strategic connections between neurons, the brain can more easily, quickly, accurately, and reliably activate more intricate patterns of neurons. Wiring induces a “domino effect” by which entire patterns of neurons are automatically activated as a result of initially activating a much smaller number of neurons in the pattern.
Jan 20, 2025
Streaks are amazingly effective in just getting people to show up. It’s a measure of habit/consistency, not progress – but when effective training techniques and honest progress metrics are in place, streaks can truly push the needle on talent development.
Jan 17, 2025
Advice on consistency, skills, discipline, the grind, the journey, the team, the mission, motivation, learning, and expertise.
Jan 12, 2025