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by ngmc 7d ago
Glad to hear the team found a successful exit. Adam bought the tailwindlabs.com domain from me when they started out and he seemed genuinely cool. Hope they keep building tools so many people enjoy using.
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Learning Creative Learning(lcl.media.mit.edu)
4 points by ngmc 6mo ago|1 comments
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by ngmc 6mo ago
This course was wonderful when I took it a few years ago. Just heard the next offering starts in April, so I'm curious to see how it's evolved. From the creators: Learning Creative Learning (LCL) is a free course and open communit
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by ngmc 6mo ago
Fun read. Haha I also love the idea of being a mathematical braid. Arrival is a great film, but my favorite fictional take on this kind of thinking is still Slaughterhouse-Five. Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
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by ngmc 3y ago
I took one of the group's courses, Linear Algebra: Foundations to Frontiers, for fun at the beginning of COVID lockdown and loved it. Here's the course that teaches their basic approach to creating BLIS: https://www.edx
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by ngmc 3y ago
This is the first time I've "seen" Shinjuku Station. What a beautiful introduction. I first read about the station in Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage and always wondered what it looked like. Neat.
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by ngmc 3y ago
And here I was feeling cheeky. In all seriousness, I just learned about Sandstorm and think it could be a great fit for a local co-op I’m building. It’s a shame about the startup, but I hope we’ll get a chance to support the open collective
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by ngmc 3y ago
I found this helpful in getting started with Sandstorm: https://youtu.be/y6120QOlsfU
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by ngmc 3y ago
Yep. For a bit more context, here’s the Wikipedia article on climate justice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_justice The “Disproportionality between causality and burden” section makes me sad.
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by ngmc 4y ago
Thanks! And big thanks to martinRenou1 for his work on ipycanvas!! He did most of the heavy lifting.
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by ngmc 4y ago
JupyterLite is great! I use it heavily with my middle school math students — wonderful to have NumPy, matplotlib, and friends available without needing to set up accounts. I created a package called jupy5 that provides Turtle graphics and a
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by ngmc 4y ago
Agreed except for the dig at Mark Jacobson. He was my undergrad and grad advisor, and I only knew him to be driven by data and a deep concern for the welfare of people and the planet. There are bad scientists out there but Mark isn't o
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by ngmc 4y ago
Great question! The studies do consider the spatio-temporal distribution of generation and demand. Here's a recent paper [1] that develops roadmaps for 145 countries and has infographics with links to additional resources. I found the
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by ngmc 4y ago
Really glad to see this discussion! My former advisor, Mark Jacobson, is one of the authors of the paper cited in the article. His book "100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything" [1] is a good starting point for fol
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by ngmc 4y ago
Some robots made a cool musical about this: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nZZjkBu_E4olFSb5Ey...
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by ngmc 4y ago
Love that paper. Wickham also made his ggplot2 book freely available: https://ggplot2-book.org/
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by ngmc 4y ago
You could take Strang’s follow-up course on learning from data. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-065-matrix-methods-in-data-an...
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by ngmc 5y ago
Shameless plug for my mentee: p5.teach aims to be a beginner-friendly version of manim that runs in the browser. https://github.com/two-ticks/p5.teach.js https://medium.com/processing-foundation/p5
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by ngmc 5y ago
Shameless plug: I recently mentored a GSoC student who built a beginner-friendly graphing library on top of p5.js. His aim is to make it easier for educators to create manim-quality math visualizations that are interactive. Check it out! h
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by ngmc 5y ago
Shameless plug: I’m mentoring a student who is building a beginner-friendly version of manim on top of p5.js for his Google Summer of Code Project - check it out! https://two-ticks.github.io/p5.teach.js/ https:/&
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by ngmc 6y ago
OpenStax books are a great resource! I reference them in the high school math classes I teach.
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Nobody in Tech Works Harder Than a Public School Teacher(inc.com)
3 points by ngmc 6y ago|0 comments
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by ngmc 6y ago
I'm taking a refresher course on linear algebra from UT Austin and love their approach - good mix of algorithms, proofs, exercises, and coding assignments. http://ulaff.net/
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by ngmc 6y ago
Taiga is another option that you can host yourself. https://taiga.io
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by ngmc 7y ago
It's definitely possible but the Scratch Blocks [1] wiki [2] is indeed a little sparse. VEXcode Blocks [3] seem to be a successful product, so somebody must have figured it out. [1] https://github.com/llk [2] https:&#
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by ngmc 7y ago
This is great work! I’m a fan of blockp5.js’ approach to the problem: take a beginner-friendly JavaScript environment (p5.js) and add a blocks. https://github.com/ycatch/blockp5.js
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by ngmc 7y ago
Originally shared by the creator in the Processing forum: https://discourse.processing.org/t/2001-a-space-odyssey-reto...
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A Mosaic of “2001: A Space Odyssey” Made with Processing(youtube.com)
2 points by ngmc 7y ago|1 comments
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by ngmc 7y ago
Scratch lists seem relatively first-class to me. Your son could probably have fun building simple data structures with them by making blocks that take an input. He can also update a "return" variable if the situation calls for it.
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by ngmc 7y ago
Scratch does allow you to make your own blocks with optional input. My math students use them to learn about abstraction. The most recent implementation was released last winter and is written in JavaScript. https://en.scratch-wi

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