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Michael Pershan
Personal blog · pershmail.substack.commathscience
Michael Pershan writes Pershmail, a personal blog at pershmail.substack.com about math and science. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
A review of Math Academy, an online math course, comparing it with other learning resources. One commenter describes their own experience with the service and agrees with the review's view of other articles.
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On teaching, research, and math.
What Hacker News says?
This tracks with my experience. I had to start from the very basics, but now I'm able to watch 3B1B and really understand what he's talking about. During lessons I occasionally reach to ChatGPT to help explain a concept or (rarely) a Khan Academy video. I agree that the other articles mentioned didn't seem to give much of a chance. The Perhan thread has a comment chain between the author and the MA director [1] whic…
Comment linking /p/math-academy-wants-to-supercharge/comments
on “A balanced review of Math Academy”Submitted Mathematics and Reading Are Different as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Don't Know What to Think About Declining Test Scores and Neither Should You as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chatbots (mostly) won't change education as a story · 1 points
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