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Proto-Knowledge
Personal blog · proto-knowledge.blogspot.comdataculture
Proto-Knowledge is a personal blog at proto-knowledge.blogspot.com about data and culture. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Building “A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer” (2011)”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog's posts on the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer idea for adaptive tutoring, and on historical complaints about young people, as references for their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Turning disconnected information into knowledge through visualizations
Most-linked posts?
- Building “A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer” (2011)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-04-24
What Hacker News says?
> ...now we need the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, a mentor that customizes information that matches a student. In case you didn't get the reference: https://proto-knowledge.blogspot.com/2011/11/building-young-...
Comment linking /2011/11/building-young-ladys-illustrated-primer.html
on “Unimpressed by online classes, college students file lawsuits for refunds”Submitted Building “A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer” (2011) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe mind-blowingly relevant picture: http://proto-knowledge.blogspot.com/2011/02/human-radio-bubb... Of course, light goes really, really fast compared to anything physics says we can possibly manage for things with more rest mass than photons. Although there could be aliens on another spiral arm, or Andromeda, communication would take longer than the lifetime of our civilization; and material trade would take longe…
Comment linking /2011/02/human-radio-bubble-in-milky-way.html
on “SETI Institute suspends search for aliens”"based on ... (mumble) ...builds on ... learner's existing knowledge " ( https://proto-knowledge.blogspot.com/2011/11/building-young-... ) is a key part of any such system. A hard part, since it requires building a map of the student's 'database'. Quizzing without being too intrusive. And secured. (Easier than in a classroom. Typically faced with 2-dozen or more students, the teacher has little idea what curriculum…
Comment linking /2011/11/building-young-ladys-illustrated-primer.html
on “Designing a 'Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer' from Diamond Age”This argument is literally just true about teenagers and young adults in general, and has been true throughout history. "The youth of today" through the ages: https://proto-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-is-wrong-w... Fact of the matter is that people mature as they age, and gain responsibilities that require them to knuckle down.
Comment linking /2010/11/what-is-wrong-with-young-people-today.html
on “Why are young people having so little sex? (2018)”I totally agree. Advisers should be more like Asian parents. "Western" parents (much like "Western" advisers) start with the premisse that their children's self-esteem is fragile and therefore constantly try to reassure their children about how good they are. While Asian parents start with the premisse that their children's self-esteem will build up with improving performance hence are consistently critical and push…
Comment linking /2011/01/asian-vs-western-parenting-styles-and.html
on “Advice to advisers: Stop being so nice.”There are many people noodling around with some implementation or another of Stephenson's "Young Lady's Illustrated Primer". [1] [2] [3] [4] There is indeed an XPRIZE that directly acknowledges the influence of Stephenson's vision. [5] This article contributes to that ongoing, healthy mania to create such a tool by identifying some of the hard AI problems that need to be solved to realize the tool. I think Stephenso…
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on “The Steps to a Universal Online Tutor”They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction o…
Comment linking /2010/11/what-is-wrong-with-young-people-today.html
on “The Self(ie) Generation”
