Mark W Tebbutt Toby Young Lower costs are good but grids need inertia.

I’ve used the Ofqual analytics tool to separate out the A level Maths distributions for those who also take A level Further Maths and those who don’t. For the latter, the distribution looks similar to that for Chemistry A level. analytics.ofqual.gov.uk/apps/Alevel/Su…

Watch Starship's fifth flight test x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Applications for the CERN summer student programme are open. If you're an undergrad in Physics, Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics apply! careers.cern/summer

Instructional clarity impacts learning in numerous ways: directly through students' experiences of cognitive load, and indirectly via self-efficacy, perceived value, cost, and motivation: bit.ly/4iQglnr ($)

Colin Wright Learn to distinguish human from AI for starters catherineandkatharine.wordpress.com/2024/09/24/lea…

putting a cheap air filter in a classroom leads to roughly the same increase in student test outcomes as the best charter schools in the country ($18k/y)

What an absolute treat by Nima and Carolina. Using the toy model of Tr(/phi^3) (scalar field theory that is SU(N) invariant), they present a possible stringy formulation of the cosmological wave function via decomposition of certain class of polytopes. arxiv.org/abs/2412.19881

I saw a great documentary about databases today. I'm looking forward to the SQL

Michael Faraday was born 234 years ago today 🎉. In 1846, Faraday gave a lecture suggesting that lines of force and their vibrations produced light. Maxwell later stated that this lecture marked the beginning of Electromagnetism. These are the original notes of that lecture.

An instant interactive explainer from Claude for a frequent debate about correlation & causation. Prompt: “Create an interactive tool that explains all the ways two variables can be correlated (causation, random chance, reverse causation, etc)” Play it: claude.ai/public/artifac…

New paper outlining a cognitive-science-grounded instructional architecture integrating retrieval practice, feedback, spacing, explicit instruction, and AI-resilient homework. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18560422 Dylan Wiliam researchED David Didau

Outline of a possible research programme for Constraint Theory. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

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Constraint isn’t a restriction on being but the generative mechanism that makes determinate being possible at all. The foundation paper for Constraint Theory: philarchive.org/archive/PRICAO… Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg Aristotelian Society David Papineau

New paper on AI alignment based on Constraint Theory offering a different approach to long standing issues. philpapers.org/rec/PRICPA-10 xAI OpenAI Anthropic Google DeepMind AI at Meta Elon Musk Sam Altman