Chicken coop progress update

The math classroom that we math teachers enjoy being part of won't be optimal for mathematical novices. We should generally resist the urge to use that environment as our aim. (This remains true until and unless students have mastered the concepts that they will be working with.)

Merry Christmas! (We are torching our Christmas tree on this fine spring evening.)

Now substack has reels/tiktoks front and center. An app built for writers of words and newsletters with WORDS has put an ungodly amount of resources into video. Specifically short form video which will probably drive people to read the actual fucking newletters less. Why can't a thing just be a thing.

We are starting a flock. All you permanerds wore off on me (at least a little bit - haha). Also one of my colleagues has been raising hens for a few years and convinced me. I buy eggs from her and we love fresh eggs from chickens who can free range. We’ll see how it goes!

I will never stop beating this drum. #education "Get good at explaining things clearly so students understand that you’re competent and trust that you can teach them well. This will help you manage your classroom, especially early on in your career before you’ve developed a reputation. It will give you richer knowledge of your content. Then gradually bring in inquiry activities in targeted ways. To bring in one more analogy, you can’t build a nice house on a weak foundation. It doesn’t matter how nice the landscaping looks if the house is on a slant and basement fills with water every time it rains. Even if the landscaping is what people see when they drive by – and your favorite thing to talk about. "

Explaining well is foundational to teaching well

The ability to explain things clearly is a necessary condition for being a good math teacher. Many conversations in some circles are around creati...

Gm Never bow the knee. Never kiss the ring.

We must speak out against tyrants and authoritarians, even when they’re on our own side. In fact, this may be the most important time to do it. Gn, Nostr. Keep building a better world.

Good morning, everyone! The days are getting longer and I love it. We had a real winter here in Michigan for a solid 3 months and even if we get more of it, at least the days will keep getting longer.

Is anyone familiar with micro.blog and know of an alternative built on Nostr? Habla.news is close. Maybe Damus is basically it as it allows long form and short form posts, rendered as such. But it's not quite like having a blog. (What I like about micro.blog is that I post short or long thoughts and also add a few stand alone pages. It feels like a website. You can see what I mean:

Zach Cresswell

Follow <a href=&#34;https://micro.blog/z_cress&#34;>@z_cress on Micro.blog</a>.

) #asknostr What I don't like about it is that, as near as I can tell, the only way for anyone to interact with posts on micro.blog is for someone to have an account, which basically no one does. I feel like Nostr fixes this.

Interesting advice here. #shorts

"You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn #quotes

This is fantastic. And goes well beyond just laying out the problems with technology in schools. #education Jonathon Haidt put it well: As parents around the world try to save their kids from a phone-based childhood, their efforts are undermined by schools that put a laptop or tablet on every desk. This video is the most compelling one I've seen, about why this must stop.

Everything is fine.

#memes

Just gonna vent a bit here…. I am on day 30 now and wow, this is a slow process. I’m down to one crutch but in a boot anytime I leave the house. The boot will be around for another two weeks minimum. I can put my full weight on it but movement without the boot (like walking barefoot with a crutch) is a dangerous business. My PT specializes in sports injuries and said it’s probably the worst ankle sprain he’s seen… so I guess I win? I’m hoping I can get it back to 100% functionality eventually. I know ankles can be screwed up for life, so I’m really trying to keep the big picture in mind and not push too hard. View quoted note →

Does anyone have a favorite way to access the deepseek model without using deepseek? I figure the Chinese are scraping everything that goes into it.

Everyone is probably already aware of this, but it was only a matter of time before advertising came to AI chatbots. Perplexity seems aware of the problems with this, and is going to try to mitigate it. We'll see. I suspect the game theory will drive a race to the bottom similar to social media. Although, powerful open source models may be disruptive enough that advertising in AI LLMs doesn't have the influence like it does in social media. Imagine if nostr and twitter started at the same time and nostr didn't have to fight the network effect of most people having their social graph in FB, twitter, IG, etc. https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/why-we-re-experimenting-with-advertising

Been a rough couple of weeks so it’s a Nebraska kind of morning.