scranglis
Re:Brilliant launches AI tutor to get kids to think
on Friday May 29, 2026 @12:37PM (#48325602)
Surprised to see this here.
Perhaps for HN audience our blog posts about building this would be more interesting: https://blog.brilliant.org/a-world-class-tutor-in-every-home... and https://blog.brilliant.org/when-almost-right-is-catastrophic....
Happy to answer any questions or absorb any justified skepticism :)
The struggle to give our stories away
Re:Louise Glück, Nobel-Winning Poet Who Explored Trauma and Loss, Dies...
on Saturday October 14, 2023 @02:22PM (#37882874)
Re:Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89
on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @05:43PM (#36317902)
In light of the LLM break throughs in the last couple of years, I've been returning his speculative essay about the source of symbolic thought every few months: https://nautil.us/the-kekul-problem-236574/
Signal PC updater race condition?
PFAS more toxic than previously realized
Solar vs. Corn Ethanol
Re:Databricks acquires Redash
on Thursday July 16, 2020 @07:57PM (#23865303)
Since arikfr is on this thread – thank you so much for Redash. Our internal instance is at query ID 8500+ and everyone on the team relies on it for querying and alerting. Can't wait to see what happens with the resources to take on some of your more ambitious ideas!
Re:Breathing habits are related to physical and mental health
on Saturday May 23, 2020 @12:24AM (#23279880)
Athos gear (https://www.liveathos.com/) is able to do live form feedback.
I Quit, I Think (1991)
Re:Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner
on Monday February 24, 2020 @01:23PM (#22406730)
It gives me great pain to hear this.
Please do email me silas [at] brilliant.org, so I can figure out which failure mode you hit and evaluate if it has improved at all since you quit.
In addition, as others have noted, our courses have no community aspect to them at all.
Re:Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner
on Sunday February 23, 2020 @09:56PM (#22401260)
Our site (brilliant.org) is designed for your use-case, among others.
Re:Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning
on Saturday October 05, 2019 @08:39PM (#21168982)
This has been known for sometime, and is the reason we’ve built brilliant.org the way we have.
I’m sorry for the self-promotion, but it is extremely relevant in this case.
Re:Why are there so many JavaScript frameworks?
on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @11:24AM (#20460446)
Not sure why this is being downvoted, it is at least a top two explanation for this phenomenon.
Re:Microsoft, Brilliant team up to offer quantum curriculum
on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @08:46PM (#20035883)
We (Brilliant) do have an introductory course on quantum mechanics as well. It goes into more of the phenomena (like spin, photons, etc.) than this computing course that mostly focuses on information. Let us know what you think: https://brilliant.org/courses/quantum-objects/
If Brilliant isn't your cup of tea – check out mcintyre's spin-first treatment. Generally speaking avoid any textbooks with cats on the cover (ie. Griffith's is popular but only so-so IMO). That being said, we went with a cat on our course ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Re:Brilliant.org doesn't allow you to delete accounts
on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @07:16PM (#19863863)
Hi – it has been possible to delete your Brilliant account for several years. You can do so here: https://brilliant.org/account/social/connections/
Re:Overview of differential equations [video]
on Saturday April 06, 2019 @03:13PM (#19592465)
Neat!
Re:Overview of differential equations [video]
on Saturday April 06, 2019 @03:12PM (#19592461)
We have in the past! And we'd love to in the future. However, Grant doesn't need sponsors any longer since his Patreon is healthy, which is awesome.
Re:Overview of differential equations [video]
on Saturday April 06, 2019 @02:35PM (#19592265)
If you're excited to actually do some problems by the end of the video, we just released our diff. eq. problem solving course: https://brilliant.org/courses/differential-equations/
Re:$100M Was Once Big Money for a Startup. Now, It’s Common
on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @12:00PM (#17767062)
$100M is still big money.
Re:Ask HN: How to self-learn math?
on Sunday March 11, 2018 @12:08PM (#16563483)
To cover pre-high school through undergrad: https://brilliant.org
Re:Project Euler
on Sunday December 10, 2017 @09:34PM (#15894763)
If you like PE, you might love: https://brilliant.org/discussions/thread/forest-fires/ (includes in-browser Python runner, too).
Re:Show HN: Fruits and vegetables in season in your zip code
on Monday November 20, 2017 @04:07PM (#15743300)
Another good data source that I've used is https://www.farmmatch.com/.
Practical, in-depth forest fire modeling exercise
Re:Daniel Kahneman “I placed too much faith in underpowered studies”
on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @02:54PM (#15230440)
Honestly, it only gets richer in the context of this comment from Kahneman. The core of the book (parts III and IV) don't rely on priming or other small N studies.
Re:Upspin – Another option for file sharing
on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @05:26PM (#13700686)
Similar in intention and scope to Keybase file sharing scheme.
Re:Total Nightmare: USB-C and Thunderbolt 3
on Saturday October 29, 2016 @09:30PM (#12827578)
Thunderbolt Cinema Displays required two cables to the machine -- data and power. So, not quite, right?