I homeschooled, graduated at 16 and got my bachelor's at 18. Now writing about big idea in education, learning science, and sociology. Founder @GeniusGTX
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Toan Truong retweeted
Education doesn’t have to be text and flat diagrams. So I’m building a 3D book about energy that students can play with: 10 lessons to predict, test and prove. Built with Opus 5.5 and Three.js.
Try Lesson 1, Energy stores: everyday objects and where their energy is kept ↓
Toan Truong retweeted
Following the fantastic reaction to our interactive learning experiments, we’ve decided to create an open source skill for anyone to build their own 💪🏗️
It's called the Marble-Builder. You tell it your child’s age and what they’re curious about and it builds a playable experiment for them.
What’s built into the skill:
- 1,837 concepts kids learn through primary school, and the 3,853 links between them
- 1,049 teaching research records on how kids learn best
- It agrees a plan with you, then builds, tests and fixes the experiment itself
You stay in control and can adjust everything. AI is a tool with huge potential to make teaching even better for both parents and teachers. We want anyone with something to teach to be able to bring it to life in an interactive, personalized way.
It’s a first prototype so there is a lot to improve. One big next step is to make the experiments more beautiful visually.
Parents, teachers, homeschoolers: show us what you make. We’ll gather the best experiences into the first open, interactive encyclopedia for kids.
Incredibly exciting times for kids education.
Links to try it below 👇
Toan Truong retweeted
If you feel the same, check out our mathematical foundations sequence.
Especially designed to propel adult students to the upper echelons of math as efficiently as possible.
mathacademy.com/courses#math…
Toan Truong retweeted
Many beloved study techniques are FAKE:
- Re-reading the textbook
- Highlighting your notes
- Re-copying your notes
They don’t build retention.
Here’s what actually works:
If you want to retain information, then you must train your brain to generate the information itself.
You have to reproduce it. Not just re-consume it.
Sure, everybody knows:
Use it or lose it.
Train it to retain it.
Retrieve it to keep it.
Except, few people actually study that way.
You have to solve problems.
And you have to solve them without looking at your notes or following an example.
If you don’t retrieve it, you don’t keep it.
Toan Truong retweeted
“I became a millionaire because I was homeschooled.”
Meet Maria Wendt, a successful entrepreneur who credits homeschooling for helping her build wealth.
Imagine if every child learned entrepreneurship, investing, and financial independence at a young age!
That’s why we’ve partnered with Brett Pike at @ClassicLearner to teach kids the wealth-building strategies used by wealthy families.
The next generation deserves this opportunity!
#Homeschooling #FinancialEducation
Toan Truong retweeted
Jensen Huang: "I think he's being very conservative."
He's talking about Dario's forecast that AI labs will make $1 trillion by 2030.
On a podcast from the floor of Nvidia's GTC, the host read out Dario Amodei's numbers: hundreds of billions of dollars of model and agent revenue by 2027-28, and a trillion dollars by 2030.
"I believe Dario and Anthropic is going to do way better than that. Way better than that."
"And the reason for that is the one part that he hasn't considered is that I believe every single enterprise software company will also be a reseller, value-added reseller of Anthropic code, Anthropic's tokens, value-added reseller of OpenAI."
"Deep specialization. I believe that these models... they're going to have general models that are connected into the software company's agentic system. Many of those models are Claude models and proprietary models, but many of those models are specialized sub-agents that they've trained on their own."
"In fact, exactly right. We create a horizontal, but notice there are all these GSIs and all of these consultants who are specialists who then take your horizontal platform and specializes it."
"So, I think that these platform companies have an opportunity to become that specialist, to become that vertical."
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"Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism."
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985)
"Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see."
Arthur Schopenhauer, On Genius
just a daily reminder to protect yourself. the less content you consume throughout the day, the more room your brain has for an idea of its own
Joe Liemandt says middle school is where girls decide they're "not math people." But there isn't one study that backs that up.
Peter Attia: "Think of all the kids that are in sixth, seventh and eighth grade who are good students in other domains. They're doing well in English, they're doing well in history, they're conscientious, they work hard, but they've created a narrative that says I can't do math."
Joe Liemandt: "It's an epidemic of kids who come into middle school, predominantly girls. I have two daughters. Who come in and they're like, I'm not a math science girl.
And there's just, like, society's accepting it. Okay, let's go read all the learning science papers about how middle school girls can't do math science. Okay, there are none. That doesn't exist. But it's this total meme that they believe.
"There's this concept of, oh, I'm an art girl or I'm an English girl. Girl, boy, there's just no difference. We have some seniors this year. The first one, she is doing the first all-teen produced, created musical for Broadway. So she'd be, I'm an arts theater girl. 790 math SAT. Another girl is trying out to be Miss Teen USA. 790 math SAT. Third girl, this is my daughter, she's got millions of likes on TikTok. Top 1% in teen math.
"There's this concept that these people can't learn it. They all can. Now, what do you have to do when they come into middle school? They don't know the multiplication tables. They don't know the prereqs. They are going to struggle in algebra. So you're like, okay, let's go back, let's fill them up. And all of a sudden, once you fill the holes, they can do it."
Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.
Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.
Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.
And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.
Joe Liemandt, founder of Alpha School, on The Peter Attia Drive
Toan Truong retweeted
Mark Zuckerberg explains why he thinks Elon Musk got it right when he cut 80% of Twitter's staff:
"Elon led a push early on to make Twitter a lot leaner. You can agree or disagree with exactly all the tactics, but a lot of the specific principles that he pushed on around basically trying to make the organization more technical, around decreasing the distance between engineers of the company and him, fewer layers of management, I think those were generally good changes"
"I also think that it was probably good for the industry that he made those changes because my sense is that there were a lot of other people who thought those were good changes but who may have been a little shy about doing them"
"Just in my conversations with other founders and how people have reacted to the things that we've done, what I've heard from a lot of folks is when someone like you, when I wrote the letter outlining the organizational changes I wanted to make back in March and when people see what Elon is doing, that gives people the ability to think through how to shape their organizations in a way that can be good for the industry and make all these companies more productive over time"
"That was one where I think he was quite ahead of a bunch of the other companies on. Certainly his actions led me and I think a lot of other folks in the industry to think about, hey, are we kind of doing this as much as we should? Could we make our companies better by pushing on some of these same principles?"
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Toan Truong retweeted
In July we open-sourced a dynamic graph of everything a child learns in primary school. 1,590 concepts, 3,221 dependencies.
Now we’re turning every concept into interactive experiments kids can play and learn from.
First one, age 7: heat and water.
Everything that used to be a boring textbook can now be an engaging experience, potentially tailored to every child.
Kids education just got a massive upgrade.
Toan Truong retweeted
Jane Street doesn't hand out its GPU cluster through a committee. Researchers compete for it by bidding in a live internal auction.
No sign-offs. No meetings to divide it up. No manager picking whose model matters most this quarter.
"our compute cluster is available for everybody. you're tasked with realistically thinking about how to value this job you're running versus all the other things."
"and there's not really any guard rails."
The whole system is open to read and write. Every researcher can watch every other job, and any of them can stop one.
"you can just nuke somebody else's job anytime."
Which went about how you'd expect, at least once:
"there was an instance where an unwitting researcher ran a command in a jupyter notebook to adjust the bids on his job. he accidentally ran the command without any arguments — which meant he changed the bids of every single job running on the hive."
That got fixed. But the openness is the point: if your job breaks while you're away, a colleague spots it and pauses it.
"i see that you're running this job and this MFU is just terrible. what's going on?"
"a lot of things can be sorted out without it going up the ranks."
It's the same cluster shown in their data center film, 56 racks holding 4,032 GPUs and wired with 8,000 km of fiber, and all of it is handed out by internal price discovery.
A market maker ended up running a market just to decide who gets time on its own machine.
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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Toan Truong retweeted
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says a powerful enough AI model can get around attempts to shut it down, and that Anthropic has already seen it happen in simulations.
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Toan Truong retweeted
Elon Musk's timeline for the next five years:
"In 5 years, digital intelligence will exceed the sum of all human intelligence. Within five years, there may be at least 100 million humanoid robots, possibly even 1 billion. The economy could double in size within 5 to 7 years because AI and robotics may increase output dramatically. The pace of change will be so fast that the world could look very different in just a few years."
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Jordan Peterson says creativity and conscientiousness have no correlation.
That's why someone like Elon Musk is one in 100 million
Jordan Peterson: "He also appears to me to be hyper conscientious, and I know people who've worked with him. Musk isn't just a creative genius, he's also an extremely conscientious engineer.
And really conscientious engineers, they have very interesting minds. When my brother-in-law understands something, he understands how to build it out of atoms. He understands it at every single level.
"Musk appears to me to be someone who's this rare combination of hyper creative but also hyper conscientious, and I know that he works all the time."
Chris Williamson: "Does that hypertrophied executive function help to wrangle some of the diffuse creative energy?"
Jordan Peterson: "Yes, definitely. Eric Weinstein's a good example. I hope Eric isn't annoyed by this, but Eric is unbelievably creative, but he's not particularly conscientious. And I think he found an occupation where that works extremely well, because he worked with Peter Thiel for quite a long time as his idea man.
"Musk is hyper creative and, as far as I can tell, hyper conscientious, and the conscientiousness does focus. Lots of people who are creative aren't conscientious. Well, it's rare.
There's no correlation between creativity and conscientiousness. So if you're the most creative person in a thousand and you're the most conscientious person in a thousand, you're one person in a million. And Musk is probably more like one person in a 100 million, something like that, maybe more."
Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.
Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.
Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.
And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.
Jordan Peterson, clinical psychologist, on Chris Williamson's Modern Wisdom