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Yuxi Liu
Personal blog · yuxi-liu-wired.github.io/essaysaihistoryscience
Yuxi Liu writes Yuxi on the Wired, a personal blog at yuxi-liu-wired.github.io about ai, history and science. Since 2024, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
The linked post is about a 1985 study of children's mental models of recursive LOGO programs. One commenter quotes its description of the participants.
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Oh, right, I forgot to mention what the children are in this study. > Seven children (two girls and five boys, eleven- to twelve-years-old) in their second year of Logo programming participated in the study. The children were highly motivated to learn Logo programming, and had averaged over fifty hours of classroom programming time under the supervision of experienced classroom teachers knowledgeable in the Logo lan…
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