Spaced repetition for teaching two-year olds how to read(chipmonk.substack.com)

60 points by rrift 2 years ago | 51 comments

Representation Engineering: Mistral-7B on Acid(vgel.me)

290 points by alexmolas 2 years ago | 53 comments

Your MCU likely escaped the eMudhra intermediate CA compromise(danielmangum.com)

47 points by hasheddan 5 days ago | 28 comments

Blog post explaining why microcontroller-based IoT devices are likely unaffected by the eMudhra intermediate CA private key compromise, due to minimal pinned root CA bundles.

Spaced repetition for teaching two-year olds how to read(chrislakin.blog)

90 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 48 comments

Ghostty is leaving GitHub(mitchellh.com)

3380 points by WadeGrimridge 6 months ago | 1008 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post announcing that the Ghostty terminal emulator project is moving off GitHub, reflecting on his long history with the platform.

Typewriter Interview with Elisa Gabbert(austinkleon.substack.com)

17 points by zacharykai 2 years ago | 0 comments

Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity(noahpinion.blog)

526 points by bankershill 3 years ago | 485 comments

Noah Smith's Noahpinion essay arguing that eliminating or delaying advanced math instruction in public schools will not improve educational equity.

The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs(writingruxandrabio.com)

392 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 416 comments

A Substack essay by Ruxandra Teslo arguing that academia should tolerate unconventional 'weird nerd' researchers and take human capital more seriously in science.

Ignoring boys' emotional needs fuels public health risks(wbur.org)

556 points by lucasv07 3 years ago | 916 comments

WBUR Cognoscenti commentary arguing that boys need emotional support from early childhood and that ignoring their emotional needs creates public health risks.

The case for banning children from social media(newyorker.com)

321 points by cocacola1 3 years ago | 496 comments

A New Yorker column by Jay Caspian Kang arguing the case for banning children from social media and examining proposed ways to protect kids.

Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled(xenaproject.wordpress.com)

456 points by artninja1988 3 months ago | 225 comments

A Xena Project blog post about mathematicians being outpaced at finding counterexamples, from the blog on mathematicians learning the Lean theorem prover.

Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play(afterbabel.com)

331 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 308 comments

An After Babel Substack essay by Mariana Brussoni, with a preface by Jon Haidt, arguing that children need risk, fear, and excitement in play and that adult fears harm them.