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SPSP Censorship 2.0: "We Are Above the Rules"

Unsafe Science β€’ 79 implied HN points β€’ 22 Feb 24
🚌 Education Academia Research Publication Ethics Social media
  1. Individuals who believe they are above the rules can be harmful to society or organizations.
  2. SPSP did not abide by professional guidelines for retraction, choosing to make up reasons to retract papers.
  3. There was a discrepancy in how SPSP handled different posters, allowing some politically motivated content while taking down others.
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QF Mathematics Mentorship

Quantum Formalism β€’ 59 implied HN points β€’ 16 Jun 22
🚌 Education Mathematics Mentorship
  1. QF Mathematics Mentorship offers free mentorship from PhD-level mathematicians for researchers and aspiring open-source quantum computing contributors.
  2. The program aims to mentor individuals on advanced branches of mathematics needed for research or open-source projects.
  3. Preference is given to projects that can benefit from utilizing abstract branches of mathematics otherwise inaccessible to non-mathematicians.

What To Do About the Dependence of the Form Progress Takes on Power?: Quick Takes on Acemoglu & Johnson's "Power & Progress"

Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality β€’ 76 implied HN points β€’ 29 Feb 24
🚌 Education Technology Economics Social Issues Political Economy Innovation
  1. The distribution of technological progress can be influenced by the balance of power in both markets and politics.
  2. Technologies can have both positive and negative impacts on society, so it's important to consider the distributional effects.
  3. Diverse perspectives and opinions are crucial in shaping better and more equitable technological trajectories.

The Most Common Data Science Interview Mistake

inexactscience β€’ 39 implied HN points β€’ 14 Mar 23
🚌 Education Interview Tips Data science Problem Solving Professional development
  1. One big mistake in data science interviews is jumping to solutions too quickly. It's important to first understand the problem before trying to solve it.
  2. Asking questions during the interview can show your insight and help you gather essential information. It helps to clarify the business context and what needs to be addressed.
  3. Finding a balance is key. You want to ask enough questions to understand the issue without getting stuck in overthinking. A good candidate knows when to seek clarification and when to respond directly.

What AI Education Is Missing

Technically Optimistic β€’ 19 implied HN points β€’ 27 Oct 23
🚌 Education AI Technology Policy Online Learning Teaching
  1. Technological progress should not prioritize profit over social responsibility, considering historical lessons like the detrimental impact of leaded gasoline.
  2. Education plays a crucial role in navigating the impact of AI, from preparing students for the evolving job market to enhancing the skills of teachers.
  3. AI education needs to focus on equipping students with technical knowledge, social consciousness, and adaptability to ensure they benefit from technology in a fair, equal manner.

The Parks puzzle

A Piece of the Pi: mathematics explained β€’ 36 implied HN points β€’ 11 Nov 24
🚌 Education Mathematics Puzzles Computer Science Logic
  1. The Parks puzzle is a game where you place trees on a grid with specific rules, similar to Sudoku. Each row, column, and park needs a certain number of trees without them being next to each other.
  2. While checking if a proposed solution is correct is easy, finding that solution can be quite complex. Researchers found that the Parks puzzle belongs to a group of difficult problems called NP-complete.
  3. The puzzle can be used to model logical operations like AND and OR. This means it has connections to computer science concepts and can help explore complex problems.

Some Thoughts on Teaching Introductory Economics

Economic Forces β€’ 11 implied HN points β€’ 10 Jul 25
🚌 Education Economics Teaching Curriculum Learning Classroom Management
  1. Introductory courses often try to cover too many topics too quickly. It’s better to focus on fewer topics so students can really understand them well.
  2. Teaching simple frameworks like supply and demand can help explain complex ideas like price controls. This method makes it easier for students to learn and apply economic concepts.
  3. There are both obvious and more hidden costs to price controls, like rent control. Understanding these costs can be complex, but it’s crucial for a deeper understanding of economics.

Materials of Fraud

Some Unpleasant Arithmetic β€’ 14 implied HN points β€’ 20 May 25
🚌 Education Cheating AI Academia Ethics Productivity
  1. AI is making it easier for students to cheat in school. Many students use AI tools to write essays or complete assignments without actually doing the work themselves.
  2. Recent incidents of academic fraud show how high the stakes are for getting published in top journals. The pressure to perform can lead some researchers to cheat to meet their goals.
  3. Cheating is influenced by economic factors, like the perceived benefits of doing well versus the risks of being caught. This creates a situation where more people might try to cheat, especially in competitive environments.

A Very Merry Christmas Brainteaser

Good Reason β€’ 85 implied HN points β€’ 25 Dec 23
🚌 Education
  1. Santa cannot distribute toys to children in a way that each kind of toy is given to a different number of children
  2. A solution using the Pigeonhole Principle proves that at least two kinds of toys will be given to the same number of children
  3. The brainteaser demonstrates a concept from discrete math known as the Pigeonhole Principle

How to (selfishly) make great educational content | #3

The Pole β€’ 39 implied HN points β€’ 10 Jan 23
🚌 Education Content creation Audience engagement Problem Solving Market Analysis
  1. Great educational content should be clear, tailored to the consumer's needs, and marketed appropriately.
  2. Optimizing educational content creation involves enjoying the process, systematizing it, and finding the right market.
  3. When creating educational content, consider if it's for personal utility or the audience, and whether it aims to solve a problem or provide understanding.

Math for kids outside of the Calculus Sequence

Kids Who Love Math β€’ 111 HN points β€’ 07 Aug 23
🚌 Education Mathematics Learning Teaching Resources
  1. There's a clear path from arithmetic to calculus in math education, but kids who advance too quickly may face challenges in a traditional school setting.
  2. Instead of just accelerating through the math curriculum, consider enrichment to explore topics outside the typical sequence like statistics, probability, and mathematical finance.
  3. Parents can support their kids in exploring enrichment math by learning alongside them, finding tutors or math circles, and utilizing resources like books and educational videos.

English-Language Learners

SFEDup β€’ 19 implied HN points β€’ 28 Feb 23
🚌 Education Languages Demographics Challenges
  1. San Francisco has a high percentage of novice English learners, especially among Latino students.
  2. Home language surveys in California reveal varying English learner numbers and dominant languages in SFUSD.
  3. SFUSD faces challenges in administering initial English proficiency tests, with some students starting to learn English in high school.

Why do Latino students do so poorly in SFUSD?

SFEDup β€’ 19 implied HN points β€’ 07 Mar 23
🚌 Education Student Performance
  1. Latino student performance in SFUSD is closely tied to the percentage of novice English learners among them
  2. English proficiency levels in kindergarten can impact SBAC test scores years later
  3. Variability in student achievement may be influenced by factors like parental education and language proficiency

How anomalies drove my social science research

America in Crisis β€’ 19 implied HN points β€’ 12 Aug 23
🚌 Education History Economics Sociology Politics Research
  1. Anomalies in stock market cycles and economic growth patterns can challenge existing models and lead to new insights.
  2. Exploring how cultural evolution impacts business practices and economic policies can provide a framework for understanding shifts in stock market valuations and economic growth.
  3. Government economic policies influenced by political cultural evolution play a key role in shaping business cultures and impacting economic trends.

Want to teach repair to K-12 kids? There's a grant for that!

Fight to Repair β€’ 19 implied HN points β€’ 27 Aug 23
🚌 Education Grants Teaching Sustainability Resources Programs
  1. The Culture of Repair Project is offering grants of up to $10,000 to create educational programs teaching sustainable repair to K-12 students.
  2. The projects funded by the grant focus on repair education as a way to address environmental and societal challenges through changing cultural relationships with material objects and social systems.
  3. Culture of Repair emphasizes the importance of repair in fostering a circular economy and encouraging active student engagement in choosing repair practices.

Why no academic discipline studies strategy

Strategy Notes β€’ 19 implied HN points β€’ 14 Mar 23
🚌 Education Strategy
  1. Many academic disciplines study various subjects but not specifically strategy.
  2. Studying past cases in strategy is beneficial, but it is not the same as actively studying and practicing strategy.
  3. The focused study of success in strategy has been divided into too many fields, impacting the overall understanding and approach to strategy.

Fragments, Chapter 9, pp.180-.... - Reading Club posting 33

Journal of Gurdjieff Studies β€’ 19 implied HN points β€’ 12 May 23
🚌 Education Philosophy Literature Science
  1. The human organism operates like a factory with three floors: head, chest, and stomach. It needs three types of 'food' - physical food, air, and impressions - for normal existence and growth of higher bodies.
  2. The transformation of substances in the organism follows the law of octaves. Substances from physical food, air, and impressions are converted into finer matters, supporting the growth of higher bodies.
  3. There's a potential to enhance the development of the air and impression octaves by creating an 'artificial shock' at the point where the third octave is usually restricted, often triggered by a specific effort at the moment of receiving an impression.

How can I be a self-sovereign contributor?

A Hitchhiker's Guide to Token Engineering β€’ 19 implied HN points β€’ 15 Aug 23
🚌 Education Contributions Editing Community
  1. Self-sovereignty as a contributor involves taking ownership and collaborating effectively with others.
  2. We need to move away from centralized leadership roles in open source projects to foster true decentralized organizations.
  3. Motivation plays a key role in contributing to projects, balancing intrinsic and extrinsic motivators is crucial.

Being a Professor is a (Product and Reinforcer of) Privilege

Symbolic Capital(ism) β€’ 19 implied HN points β€’ 19 Jul 23
🚌 Education Privilege Meritocracy Academia Inequality
  1. Being a tenure-track professor comes with high occupational prestige, pleasant working conditions, and superior job security, offering a lifestyle privilege.
  2. The requirements for becoming a tenure-line professor create barriers for the majority of the U.S. population, favoring elite backgrounds and credentials from prestigious institutions for academic success.
  3. Current academic evaluation practices, such as journal publications, citations, and grant opportunities, often prioritize institutional prestige and professional connections over genuine scholarly merit, reinforcing privileges within academia.

Rethinking Economics in the Digital Age

The Digital Anthropologist β€’ 19 implied HN points β€’ 21 Aug 23
🚌 Education Economics Digital Age Philosophy Cultural anthropology Innovation
  1. Economics is evolving back to its philosophical roots, which is beneficial for economists and society.
  2. Data, climate change, and shifting geopolitics are driving changes in economics in the digital age.
  3. Economics is becoming more intertwined with sociology and anthropology, leading to improved insights and potential positive evolution of the field.

Gapminder

Barn Lab β€’ 19 implied HN points β€’ 16 Jun 23
🚌 Education Statistics Global Development Data Sources
  1. Gapminder is an independent Swedish foundation focused on fact-based global statistics.
  2. Their bubble chart software, Trendalyzer, was acquired by Google in 2007.
  3. Gapminder provides educators with free resources and offers a 'Worldview Upgrader' quiz to challenge misconceptions.