People—teachers, students, parents—have been complaining for a century that memorization is pointless when ”you can just look it up“. This complaint predates AI, it predates Google, it predates this internet. But it’s wrong. Here’s Pauling on why he gave closed notes exams:

This is actually an excellent way to gain intuition in physics

This is (part of) the future of education. The bulk of effective learning is interest and engagement. Perhaps the next generation isn't as educationally screwed as everyone assumes.

Some good high level explanations and analogies discussed in this post. Recommend reading for those interested in PoW based networks including Bitcoin.

Additional signal related to previous post

Submarines do not swim. Automobiles do not gallop. Telephones do not speak. Cameras do not paint. Computers do not think.

The Bitcoin Historian We need this at the Federal level too; otherwise it's still prohibitive to spend bitcoin.

Bitcoin breaking lagged M2 correlation (temporarily) has more to do with general negative market sentiment due to Israel/Iran situation than it does macroeconomic conditions. Ignore the noise.

Kaspa is effectively front running Bitcoin to the security spend death spiral (caused by lack of MoE/transaction fee miner compensation viability) That said, there is a small saving grace for Kaspa in that hashrate is largely from individuals and not pooled (as per Kaspa's fast

The hard truth is that doing hard things is what makes life worth living. Reminds me of: "He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life." John 12:25

Kind of seems the POTUS is saying that Bitcoin takes pressure off the dollar by absorbing the liquidity that would otherwise go into other assets. Taking this a step further, that means that as Bitcoin grows in adoption | marketcap - the dollar can continue to inflate - without

Take note!

Funny to think about, but true

Language literally shapes how we think about space.

The people said "burn the Fed", to which the Fed responded "shadow-clone no jutsu!"

This - and take it a step further by adding in-kind BTC ETFs will likely continue to be rejected

A glimmer of hope

so here's a challenge I put you in a time chamber I give you 10,000 books to read for every word you read, I ask you to guess the next word if you guess it right, I give you a cake if you guess it wrong, I zap your butt and when you're done, we start over again and again and