Timely Snow

I came across a Google video talk entitled Human Computation, by Luis von Ahn. It turned out to be something entirely different from what I expected, but fascinating nonetheless. Really interesting examples of ways of developing games that people will gladly play that involve collecting useful data that computers have trouble generating, such as labels [...]

Today’s topic was “instruction,” which is somewhat difficult because a) this class has quite a bit of teaching experience already, and b) because of the havoc in some of their other courses I’m not quite sure what they do and don’t know on this topic, and c) I was too disorganized to really find out.

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I’m a math moron. No, really, you don’t understand—I’m a math moron. – By Emily Yoffe – Slate Magazine
There had to be something wrong with me because here I was, literally back at 2 2. As I came up with the answer—yes, I got 4—I had a vivid memory of tormenting my first-grade [...]