Aly Hudson

Building (mainly for other people) and breaking (mainly my own) stuff.

[Lionel Mora @lionel_mora]

Following the amazing reaction to the Marble Curriculum yesterday, we've decided to make it open source 🛰️👇

Everything a child learns in primary school. 1,590 concepts. 3,221 connections across 8 subjects, from Math and Science to Computing and Life Skills. Anchored in the US and UK curriculums, standard by standard (NGSS, Common Core, DfE).

What you will find in the repo: every concept as structured JSON with its age band and the evidence a child must show to master it. Every prerequisite link marked hard or soft, with a written rationale. It's a true DAG you can compute learning paths on. Open license, you can build whatever you want with it.

Now is a unique time in history to be building in education. Getting AI and kids education right is likely one of the hardest and most important problems to crack over the next decade and we need as many smart and creative minds behind it.

We think a common solid basis, accessible to all and that can be built upon, is critical to move fast. That's why we're making this curriculum open source.

It's not perfect but we know it's a robust basis, and we believe that sharing it openly is the fastest way to progress in this field. If you're building in education, share this around you and tell us in comments if you find this useful and if you want to contribute.

We'll keep working and investing on it @withmarbleapp. Credit goes to @guillaume_boni for building this. I just made it look pretty.

Links below 👇

[Douglas Qian 钱钟理 @douglasqian]

Anyone else wish you could just talk to your podcast app?

Well, @telenardo and I did. So we built Orbit - the first AI podcast app you can talk to

Ask follow-ups, get summaries, take notes. Hands free

We don't know if it's worth pursuing yet. Please help us find out

The app is in Apple review but if you comment "Orbit" I'll DM you TestFlight access as soon as it's live 👇

[Aly Hudson @hudson_aly]

@nicochristie Would love a code please!

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

I think today was an inflection point - maybe small, but real.

The President, having launched a global trade war, feted in the Oval Office a Central American dictator who runs a mega-prison known for starvation and torture - a prison to which our government has, by its own admission, sent at least one person "in error."

They disappeared a man without a single criminal charge who's lived and worked here for 15 years - who was alleged to be a member of a gang based in a state he never lived by one anonymous informant. No other evidence. No trial. No conviction. Nothing but a legal order that he not be deported to El Salvador, where he's now serving a life sentence.

The Supreme Court just ruled, without any noted dissent, that the government must facilitate the man's release.

But Trump and his dictator friend said no. They laughed. They mocked the journalist who asked whether they'd abide by the Court's order. The Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and the White House Deputy Chief all lied about the facts of the case. Then the President repeated his proposal to send American citizens to the dictator's prison, and asked him to build five more.

The same day we found out that the government knowingly disappeared a PhD student for nothing but an op-ed, a man's 19-year old son who agents admitted was the wrong kid, and a visa-holding Russian scientist at Harvard who forgot to declare frog embryos at the border.

But: it's all breaking through. It's getting more coverage. More people are paying attention. More elected Democrats are speaking up. More conservative pundits and legal scholars are speaking up. Even Joe Rogan thinks it's bullshit.

Now we have to keep pushing. This is much bigger than immigration or deportation policy - this is about whether we live in a free country or a police state. It's the whole ballgame.

[Aly Hudson @hudson_aly]

@hktsre @CJHandmer Underrated hilarious comment

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

Grok needs a lot of red teaming, or it needs to be temporary turned off.

It’s an international security concern.

[Symone D. Sanders Townsend @SymoneDSanders]

Tonight’s SNL cold open featuring VP Harris

[NASA InSight @NASAInSight]

My power’s really low, so this may be the last image I can send. Don’t worry about me though: my time here has been both productive and serene. If I can keep talking to my mission team, I will – but I’ll be signing off here soon. Thanks for staying with me.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Dave Wasserman says that Raphael Warnock has defeated Herschel Walker. But in this Pickens County Waffle House, they aren't so sure.

[Dave Wasserman @Redistrict]

To my eye, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) is on track to prevail by 2-4 pts. By the standard of the 2021 runoffs, that's a Democratic blowout. #GASEN

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

a few of my favorite memories

[Aly Hudson @hudson_aly]

@KP4NC Yay for relational organizing!!!

Signup at https://t.co/DGA4nBPmTn

[Aly Hudson @hudson_aly]

@SlideWeb3 Oh wow! This will totally change the way i interact with web3!

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Our model now shows that Trump's theft of classified documents has increased his chances of winning the GOP nomination from somewhat likely to very likely. And Nate explains why steak taste best well-done with ketchup. All that and more on the next 538 podcast.

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

Hell of a week for Biden:

-528k July jobs added
-Unemployment at 3.5% (50-year low)
-Zawahiri killed
-CHIPS Act passes
-PACT Act passes
-Inflation Reduction Act deal
-Gas hits 50+ day low (median US price below $4/gal)
-Kansas protects abortion

And he oversaw it all with COVID.

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

This is a very powerful way to use urban art

[John Fetterman @JohnFetterman]

Omg. We are starting to get prettttyyy close to 600k followers 👀

Consider this a *humble* ask for a RT + follow 🙏

It will take a BIG team to defeat Dr. Oz + win this seat

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

A clip from Don’t Look Up, and then a real TV interview that just happened

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Has anyone done any sociological research on why a lot of upper-caste liberals, when given a world of extreme injustice both locally and globally, sometimes get /really/ stuck on being terrified of "cancellation."

[Aly Hudson @hudson_aly]

@JakeJJacksonRI Hahahhahahaha