Why is everyone in such a rush? Walk into any bookstore, and you’ll see how to Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours alongside endless variations offering to teach C, SQL, Ruby, Algorithms, and so on in a few days or … Read more
Posted on September 3rd, 2013. This post is about writing technical documentation. More specifically: it’s about writing documentation for programming languages and libraries. I love reading great documentation. When I have a question and the documentations explains the answer almost … Read more
Daniel Kish navigates the world like a bat does—and he does so without ever leaving the ground. After losing his vision as an infant, Kish taught himself to move around with the help of echolocation. Like bats, Kish uses his … Read more
If you’re a regular listener to this podcast, then you probably know that I’m deeply frustrated by our current educational system, especially when it comes to mathematics. So I’m very excited about today’s conversation with Conrad Wolfram, a mathematician and … Read more
One frustrating aspect of email phishing is the frequency with which scammers fall back on tried-and-true methods that really have no business working these days. Like attaching a phishing email to a traditional, clean email message, or leveraging link redirects … Read more
On Isaac Newton’s iteration method to self-learn geometry: “He bought Descartes’ Geometry and read it by himself .. when he was got over 2 or 3 pages he could understand no farther, than he began again and got 3 or … Read more
The UNIX Pipe Card Game This is a card game for teaching kids how to combine unix commands through pipes. This game assumes the parent knows the basic unix commands: cat, grep, tail, head, wc, sort, uniq. The parent should … Read more
GitHub – ZaneH/piano-trainer: Memorize piano scales with ease! A practice program w/ MIDI support {{ message }} This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository. You can’t … Read more
A post recently made the rounds on hacker news claiming that you should teach your kids poker, not chess. The comments on that post go through a lot of the reasons why poker is a bad game to teach your … Read more
You may have heard the saying “This is chess, not checkers,” implying we’re involved in a situation that requires analysis and foresight. It’s been said in all kinds of contexts – in the movie Training Day about undercover police work, … Read more