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You’ve probably used AI for work today.
Now picture an 11-year-old using it to finish her core schoolwork in two hours a day.
That’s Everest Nevraumont’s routine at @Alphaschool in Austin, and she’s given a @TEDx talk on how she does it.
She’s coming with her dad, @Ednever, Senior Advisor at @warburgpincus and former CMO of @GA_TORONTO, to talk about what AI is really doing for kids’ learning and where it’s mostly hype.
If you build in edtech, shape AI policy at a school, or have kids of your own, come hear it in person and bring your questions.
Get your early-bird ticket: luma.com/future-of-education…
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The AstralCodex article "Alpha School" was a summer highlight on AI and education's future.
The author's (@Ednever) daughter appeared on TV yesterday.
Alpha's GT school is just ramping up. Join us to shape the future with parents like Ed and enroll your child to be surrounded by students like Everest.
WATCH: 10-year-old history champion Everest Nevraumont names EVERY U.S. President from memory!
@BillHemmer | @DanaPerino
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so inspiring of Cambridge to give an honorary doctorate to someone who aided and abetted murderers and suicide cults because she’s the good sort of extremist
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Go back to the day when both friendly and enemy armies ravaged the land for supplies
In the 30 years war something like 450k soldiers died
...and 4.5-8 million civilians
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That's because the Democratic Party defines improving education as "equalizing outcomes", and parents absolutely hate that shit
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Instead of implementing high school struggle sessions, colleges should push the SAT to add more levels beyond 1600 to capture higher levels of extraordinary ability and use that
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A detail not to be glossed over in this review is the unprecedented combo of @alphaschoolATX in-house dev team + massive data flywheel.
These feedback loops and ability to build internal tools like AlphaReads are common in tech but virtually nonexistent in most schools.
This comprehensive review of @AlphaSchoolATX/@gtschool was just posted on ACX, I only wish I had written it - very worth your time if you still have big questions about the Alpha model:
astralcodexten.com/p/your-re…
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Increasingly convinced the incessant claim that a humanities education is about "critical thinking"—rather than content mastery—is a scam designed to justify the humanities in "skill-building" terms that are legible within the university's new role as a credentialing bureaucracy.
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Bill Gates should buy 23andMe and release all GWAS summary statistics
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My family moved to the US when I was 8, but by the time I turned 20, my dad was still on an H1B (waiting to get processed for a green card).
Once I turned 21, I would age out as his dependent, despite the fact that I basically grew up in the US.
I thought I'd have to become a code monkey after college, and even that only if I was lucky enough to win the H1B lottery.
Otherwise, back to India.
I had become a huge fan of @paulg's essays in college. I was actually depressed that my desire to start a startup or do something entrepreneurial was basically hopeless.
Working on the promising podcast I was doing as a side project? A beyond impossible pipe dream.
Even after 9 years, my dad wasn't able to get a green card - and the lines were only getting longer over time. I figured I'd be an old man before I could quit some FANG job and build my own thing.
By some miracle, COVID travel restrictions cleared out the lines, and I got my green card literally months before I would have aged out.
If not for this unbelievable coincidence, I would not be hosting the podcast.
In the best case, I would be shifting pixels around in the 3rd sub-sub-menu of some big tech software.
I'm incredibly grateful I made it through.
But it's unconscionable that we put the kids of high skilled immigrants through all this anxiety, and in many cases make them repeat the nerve-racking indentured life trajectory that they had to watch their parents go through.
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My entire professional life, anyone who challenges official inflation statistics is condemned by experts as a crank. Now Dr. Summers, an unquestioned pillar of the field of economics, does it. Official inflation stats the latest institutional authority to crumble into dust?
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“everything will be all right. and even if it won't be, we'll have the consolation of having lived honest lives."
- alexei navalny
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It just hit me – we have fonts for voices, too! – at Miami Beach, FL
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Zuck on the Apple Vision Pro
He's still got fire in him, love to see it
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People who deny the very important impact of culture on material progress (culture incels) need to be shown this. You have a perfectly well functioning technology that has been shut off because of cultural brainworms.
The world is ruled by memes.
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You, a fool: Make the decision with the best expected value.
Me, wise: Wait until I’ve already seen the outcome of the play and then if it doesn’t work say I would have done the reverse.
