I did. A poorly behaved student would close the page. How are you going to stop that? Real children don't pay attention in the classroom.
Personally I found the demo kind of cringe - why the drake meme? Computers do not "struggle with too many digits" why use a metaphor that's just wrong?
With the "1 to 2 Machine" Demo the only feedback you get on no action is "green box is looking a bit empty." Not engaging really.
I think this would be useful for a motivated kid, but in that case Khan Academy already has way more content and is free. Don't see why you'd pay $50/month. That's to say nothing of YouTube which has even more content than Khan Academy, and is again free (or $15 if you don't want the ads).
Finally, I don't really see the "AI" here. The demo as constructed is basically a Google Slide deck with some JavaScript sprinkled in. A true "AI" experience would be that you, at any moment can ask for help and contextually it would help you. So in the case I described earlier it might go back and redisplay with arrows, or perhaps make the colors even more obvious.
It's pretty clear the person in question has spent time with children. I did the demo. I have children. I thought the same thing, ie "good luck getting more than 5% of kids to follow this".
Really? I'm not too knowledgable about 8-yr olds and I'm certainly not telling you what to do with yours, but if you were to get them to explain what they learned about the binary counting system you feel that it would make sense and reveal that some underlying concepts were genuinely understood?
You can see my other comment on here, but hours after the demo I asked my 8yo to explain binary to my wife. He explained how 101 in binary is 5 pretty well.
That's fair and I don't blame you for being suspicious of my testimonial. I built the widget that's used in the demo. My son didn't play with it until the entire demo lesson was complete. He liked the lesson and learned binary from it -- something we hadn't taught him elsewhere. He asked to do it again on another day. He then went on and did two of our other unreleased lessons on his own and enjoyed them. As a parent and as someone who helped build this, I was excited.
I had the opportunity to work on this. I let my son try the demo last week. Hours afterward at dinner I asked him to explain binary to my wife.
"Mom, imagine you have the number 101 in binary. The first 1 is the fours spot, so you have 4. There's none in the twos spot. and 1 in the ones spot. So that means you have 5."
Two days later he came into my office and asked if he could do more tutor.
- lessons are presented based on what you already know (e.g. you can't choose to study a topic before you've demonstrated mastery of all topics it depends on)
- I pick the next lesson from a very small set (usually 5 options, sometimes fewer), so there's no wasting time choosing what to study next
- really great spaced repetition system that prevents forgetting
They don't grant degrees or diplomas. As such it is presumably accredited as a Supplementary Education Program and (like JHU CTY, Stanford ULO, and AoPS) do not grant credit. Such programs can be the basis of credits if your "real" high school accepts them, though.
Right, ymmv for transfers at either a hs or college. But the accredited status makes it possible to get approval. MA say they can make the documentation available manually and will automatically in the future.
I was an engineer at a company attempting to extract rare earth metals from fly ash using a solvent method (supercritical CO2). Similar to how caffeine is removed from coffee.
There aren’t a lot of rare earths in coal/fly ash but even modest coal plants produce tons of fly ash daily.
Also fly ash is a pain in the ass to get rid off. I've heard about companies re-using it in concrete products and other construction materials. Even if the value produced is low, any profit is better than dealing with the cost of safely disposing it.
Making cheap bricks with waste ash has been common for decades.
Most British houses have two layers of brick, the nice ones on the outside, and these ones on the inside, which will be covered. An air (or fibreglass) gap between them provides insulation.
No, the idea that fly-ash is highly radioactive is a faux created by the nuclear lobby. Some coal is more radioactive than other, but in general they're very safe from this perspective. The real problems are is it's corrosiveness, it's heavy metal content (if any), and the particle size.
"Uber almost certainly can thrive even if it pays its drivers more, and even if it picks up their expenses and pays them benefits like a genuine employer. It won't make as much money per trip, but its service may become more reliable instead, which could expand its market."
Well, if that's the case then forcing the change need not happen. If there is a financial or competitive benefit (better service and more reliable) to the company, it will either make the change voluntarily or a competitor will figure that out and eventually grow larger. If not, then your assumption is wrong.
Oh - nobody forces anyone to work with uber. They know what they're signing up for. They're not entitled to anything from uber except for what they agreed upon in the contract to work.
"Oh - nobody forces anyone to work with uber. They know what they're signing up for. They're not entitled to anything from uber except for what they agreed upon in the contract to work."
You can make the same argument against minimum wage, or any other abusive contracts (payday/predatory loans). A lot of time one of the party signing the contract has no other option depending on his situation, that doesn't mean a company/individual should be able to take advantage of his situation and get him in a tough bargain.
Also, not all contract signings are created equal, that's how a lot of companies sneak no-compete's which have been deemed unenforceable many times.
> You can make the same argument against minimum wage, or any other abusive contracts (payday/predatory loans).
The people who make the argument against labor laws like the ones at issue with Uber often do make the same argument against minimum wage laws, or other laws restricting "abusive" contracts.
Employers have too much power in the asymmetrical employer/employee relationship. In order to counteract this and level the playing field, there must be minimum labor standards enforced by the state.
I know that a lot of right-leaning Americans think that government should stay out of private contracts, but they'd be dead wrong. If the employee was just as powerful as the employer, then the situation would be different.
I think you're giving yourself the ability to reason along the spectrum, but assuming that more libertarian leaning people are incapable of admitting that some standards are OK. Of course some standards are OK, it's these standards that we object to. Workers need to be protected from unsafe working conditions, sure. Minimum standards aside, there's no reason to cast Uber vs. drivers as a Marxist class struggle when the Uber drivers themselves seem to be satisfied with the arrangement.
> Minimum standards aside, there's no reason to cast Uber vs. drivers as a Marxist class struggle when the Uber drivers themselves seem to be satisfied with the arrangement.
(1) The existence of the lawsuit means that the generalization serving as the explicit premise here is incorrect.
(2) Without defending Marxist class struggle as a valid or correct framework for addressing reality, the idea that the drivers seem generally satisfied with the arrangement is relevant to whether characterizing it as a Marxist class struggle is necessary may reveal a poor understanding of the entire idea of Marxist class struggle and particularly the role of class consciousness within such a struggle.
I guess I'm confused. Most of these people that are praising Kelsey for "saving these children" are pro-choice. In other words, they're glad that the mother can't take drugs to help her feel better during the first and second trimester to protect the baby, but if the mother wans to to straight up kill the child, that's the mother's choice and is ok.
People, both pro-life and pro-choice, do not want babies to be born with phocomelia, which causes great suffering and a 50% mortality. Dr. Kelsey more or less single-handedly prevented this tragedy in the US. It's not confusing at all.
I sell 6 and 12 month leadership development programs to companies. I make 50% of the sale. At $50/mo per employee on the program, I make an extra $1000/mo at 40 employees.
http://LIFELeadershipCorporate.com
Whilst you're on it can you fix the LLR logo roundel not to have floating pixel cruft in the transparent areas (and poor cropping) and maybe provide a properly scaled WP logo - that anti-aliasing gives me the jitters ... just saying ...
Is this your self-made content, or are you essentially an affiliate for someone else's course? Mind sharing a bit more how this works? Very interesting!
Nice! Is this full time and you're making more than stated above - or are you part time and you are making ~1K / month as a side biz? Just curious about order of magnitude?
This is an awesome project and it looks like the content you are providing is high quality and impactful! I would love to hear more about how you started gaining the initial content and how/why you structured the Courses (1&2) in the ways that you did.
