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Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday on Monday April 21, 2014 @07:15PM (#7624620)
Take a look at a recent project of mine, which begins to implement this idea. The approach uses Wikipedia to help find 'related' and 'prerequisite' concepts for generating a curriculum.

I wrote a quick article about it, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7511837 https://medium.com/p/b45429ef49e4

...And the supporting code: https://github.com/pjama/wikigraph

Re:Wikipedia to Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA on Monday January 16, 2012 @02:13PM (#3471997)
Couldn't they just redirect traffic coming from the US? Leave it accessible to the rest of the world!
Does anyone else have an uncontrollable urge to jump on that thing and ride it around? I suppose it would be dangerous, but this could spawn a new breed of bull-riding scientist-cowboys.
10 / 750 equal to 1.3%

Am I missing something?

Read about [Adaptive Optics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_optics) -- The telescope watches the laser beam and corrects for atmospheric distortions.