Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

DECEMBER 8, 2023

And trying to elicit higher levels of participation through standardized rubrics is tricky at best, and downright harmful and inequitable at worst, and a royal logistical pain in any case. We hope to create an environment where active learning takes root organically. We definitely don't end up with what we'd envisioned.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 15, 2023

But actual evolution seems more like deep learning with a large neural net—where one’s effectively operating in an extremely high-dimensional space where there’s typically always a “way to get there from here”, at least given enough time. And indeed simple models of evolution might give one the intuition that this would happen.

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 13, 2022

And I went into full “hands-on CEO” mode, trying to see how to juggle logistics to make things work. Though hopefully in the end everyone who wanted an NKS book got one, no doubt oblivious to the logistical challenges involved in getting it to them. It just didn’t seem possible to get enough books, quickly enough.

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