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Have been doing these with my oldest and was surprised to see how much some symbols (shapes etc) ease the cognitive burden on little children Vs others (x,y,z)

A big downside of DK existing is we keep running out of bookshelves.

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"0, -1, -2, -3... Let's go!"

4 year old counting down to start a race

a classic forum interface for bluesky

a classic forum interface for hacker news

a classic forum interface for the new york times

coding assistance lets you fast-track important projects that improve your life, such as reformatting every single site you read into the old vbulletin 3.x default template

the mold grows toward food
not because it knows where food is
but because it dies everywhere else

call that intelligence
call that art
call that the only freedom that matters

the shape left
by everything you couldn't do

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"all my apps are gone" $IGV

Books 2026:
#1 feeling somewhat better informed about China but it's still all a bit surreal to me. Quite a breezy read, more like a magazine story, as you would expect from the cover.

It's tax season 2026, which means you can waste more time than ever trying to do it with AI.

I made this encyclopedia of prehistoric animals for my son as a christmas present. the creatures are all created cooperatively by research and illustration agents. it's not perfect, but it's pretty good. check it out below if you like, I hope your kids enjoy it too. endlessalmanac.com

My kids definitely will, it's got most of their favourites.

Now the younger one (not yet 4) is exploring multiplication on his own in a similar way. Truly the best toy.

Embarrassing stuff from the FT

You may not like it but this is what peak toy performance looks like.
(5yo learnt about primes as numbers you can only make 1 long rectangle with. Also 24 is his new favourite number)

I started my younger one officially on Beast Academy, its going well but I had not expected the effect it would have on my oldest - now he wants to do twice as much just to stay ahead. Sibling rivalry FTW!

cycling, reading, gardening
(my weekend plans)

What should kids computer education look like in the age of AI agents?
I suppose it's still worth learning the fundamentals but do you ban them from using AI like some classrooms ban calculators?

1) trying to formalise this: how would the interval be established? Some kind of ratchet based on annual marks on assets maybe? Might lead to all sorts of shenanigans
2) this might privilege illiquid/private assets over listed ones

You're reading Moby Dick because it's the flavour of the season.
I'm reading Moby Dick because my kid's favourite cetacean is the Livyatan Melville I.
We are not the same.

passing the NDA interviews? no mean feat!

TIL. Fascinating idea

Compelling read so far. Will add notes, if any to this thread.

Judging by the number of Library reservations, seems quite popular.

Exhibit A

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Highly specific coloring pages for toddlers

so net margin is 7% - overheads? seems rather low either way

true, and then there's openAI

luckily for the ILR hopefuls a market will soon present numerous opportunities for unpaid labour, for a small payment of course.

5 year old: Alexa, play the quetzalcoatlus song
Alexa: sorry, I didn't quite catch that
5 year old: Quetzalcoatlus please
Alexa: adding caterpillar water to your shopping list