Teaching AI to kids from first-principles. x.com/nehalmax/status/206492…

x still showing posts from people/handles i don't follow under 'following' tab🤦‍♂️ please fix this @nikitabier

my local chess club has annual tournament coming up, and i want to prepare on some lines i am not yet comfortable with... i wish there was a conversational AI interactive chess platform where i can describe my need and the AI sets up cases on the board and guides me / coaches me. if @Ra1kshit @viditchess don't build this, i might build it by myself :)

Wow! Consecutive wins against strongest players in the world! Take a bow @rpraggnachess 🙌 What a strong performance!

As someone who actively advocates gamification, I strongly support the way gamification can be used rather than how most systems end up implementing. Great read. The friction in learning is absolutely essential. Gamification should nudge the learner rather than becoming d reason

adding external rewards to something a learner was already curious about erodes that curiosity. not me saying this, read about 'self determination theory' yourself. is too much gamification and a 'hooked' approach making learning dopamine dependent?

GCP bill forecast this month for my chrome extension sublist-ext.com *insert that khaya peeya kuch nahi glass toda quote*

i have a feeling claude cowork is deliberately making mistakes, ignoring claude.md instructions, and rebuilding context to burn more tokens. someone seems to have given token usage as a metric to track to a PM, and now they have made it into a business goal (goodhart's law)

in this race for AI for learning, one thing i'm pretty clear about is, we don't want to be the hare 🐇 we don't want to move fast just to build something that looks exciting. unlike these heavily gamified interactive language/math learning platforms that give a sense of quick achievement kicking in the dunning kruger effect, we would rather move carefully and build something with real depth. something that helps learners get real skills, build better study habits and actually improve retrieval/retention rates. happy to be called a tortoise 🐢 but i think that’s the way.

if you are a new parent in a dual income nuclear family, then the early years can straight up make or break you. toddlers (specially boys?) demand an insane amount of energy and attention. finding a good full-time nanny is like winning a lottery. unless one of you are willing to compromise or delay career goals, it's almost impossible to raise a child with good values.

this has been my career's mantra, my guiding principle

this is so touching. whatever opinion you might have about the current political dispensation, you got to appreciate their sincere effort in bringing padma awards back to common people who deserve it more than the elite sycophants (that were being awarded during the previous rule), these are the people building the nation at the grassroots. 👏

I was teaching map of India to my son and realised Bengaluru (77.59’) sits on almost the same longitude as Delhi (77.22’)! And Chennai (13.08’) is slightly further north of Bengaluru (12.97’) on latitude. Goa is more South Indian than Telangana! Goa’s northernmost point (15.66’) is below Telangana’s southernmost point (15.76’). Fascinating!

seeing a lot of people amazed at seeing worli from andheri due to low AQI in Mumbai ... a phenomenon that now feels like a once or twice a year miracle. till early 2000s, from our building rooftop in vile parle we could see buildings as far as tardeo and malabar hill clearly on most days of the year.

My son turned two last year. Since then, his standard response to almost everything we tell him is “Kaa?”. That is “why?” in Marathi. He asks it relentlessly, until he gets a satisfying answer. And sometimes even when the answer starts with “because” and the reason has technically been given, he asks again. It’s like a never ending loop 🤣. It’s occasionally annoying. But we love it, because that is precisely how toddlers learn, and we never want him to stop. What he does instinctively has a name in business schools: the why ladder. Keep asking why until you reach the root of a problem. It is Socratic questioning in its purest form. No training required. Children are born with this. But somewhere along the way, most of us stop questioning. In an age when AI can answer almost anything, the real advantage is knowing what to ask next. More thoughts on this👇🏼