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@dioscuri (Henry Shevlin) — 1h
My students sometimes ask why they should memorise things in the age of Google and LLMs. But internalised facts are your bullshit filters and your raw material for creative association. Facts outside your head are inert.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Single text-only tweet about memorization value in the LLM era.
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赤兎馬 @sekitoba — 18h
[Translated from Japanese, "Show original" link present]
My fourth-grade second son, after I taught him trigonometry, suddenly wanted to draw 3D figures and started making something in Scratch.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Split-image photo of a computer screen: left half shows a Scratch (visual block-coding) program with orange/pink/green blocks in Japanese; right half shows a zoomed view of numeric rotation parameters (z, 回転後z, 回転後x, 回転後y etc., in Japanese labels) alongside a blue 3D wireframe cylinder/basket render generated by the code.
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Alex Smith (verified) @ninja_maths · 5h
For anyone wondering how a third-grader can complete six years' worth of math in a single year.
This knowledge graph spans 3,000 math topics, from 4th grade to the university level, providing the perfect basis for mastery learning.
Students can go as fast or far as they want! There are no restrictions whatsoever. The only requirement is that they must demonstrate mastery of each topic before moving on to the next.
Kids are capable of incredible things when given that kind of freedom and support.
[Large network graph image showing thousands of colored nodes/edges representing math topics, legend: 4th Grade Math, 5th Grade Math, Prealgebra, Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, Precalculus, Calculus 1, Calculus 2, Linear Algebra, Multivariable Calculus, Methods of Proof, Probability & Statistics, Discrete Math, Math for Machine Learning, Machine Learning, Test-Prep (SAT)]
> QUOTED: mathacademy / Nadja (verified) @unrealNadja · Feb 28
> Today feels big. My third grader earned another stripe on his BJJ belt and then casually finished the last lesson of his Calc BC course.
> This kid, who just over a year ago claimed he ... [truncated]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Promotional content for Math Academy's mastery-learning knowledge-graph curriculum, showing an accelerated third-grader completing Calc BC. Adjacent to Nathan's "knowing_what_you_are_course" / Digital Academy curriculum interests, though about human pedagogy rather than AI.
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Dwarkesh Pat... @dwarkesh_... · 15h
Has someone come up with a great prompt for socratic tutoring?
Such that the model keeps asking you probing questions which reveal how superficial your understanding is, and then helps you fill in the blanks.
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Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp · 9h
From my friend @vinayramasesh:
"I would benefit most from an explanation style in which you frequently pause to confirm, via asking me test questions, that I've understood your explanations so far. Particularly helpful are test questions related to simple, explicit examples. When you pause and ask me a test question, do not continue the explanation until I have answered the questions to your satisfaction. I.e. do not keep generating the explanation, actually wait for me to respond first. Thanks!"
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A practical prompt-engineering tip shared by Dwarkesh Patel for Socratic-tutoring-style AI interactions — instructing the model to pause and require answers before continuing an explanation. Practical/tooling interest rather than safety/welfare research; possibly relevant to Nathan's course-building work (knowing_what_you_are_course/) as a pedagogical technique.
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