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[Lightning Studios @joinlightning]

@avyfain @krishnanrohit how so? also wasn't socrates himself into irony?

[Adir Yolkut @AdirYolkut]

Incredible news for Torah learning world.

When Rav A' Abulafia intepreted idea that we should turn over the Torah over and over, he added ve-khulah bekha vekhulkha bah “all of it's in you, and all of you is in it.” We mirror the Torah and it mirrors us.

This is how we do it.

[David/Dovid Bashevkin @DBashIdeas]

Amazing new project integrating AI into text-based Torah learning! 🙌🙌🙌

[Lightning Studios @joinlightning]

Redemption will come when ontology, aesthetics, and pedagogy converge.

[Zohar Atkins @ZoharAtkins]

It's funny b/c this is, in many ways, the core innovation, but 80% of users won't even know what this means and that's why we invested just as deeply in UI/UX. Torah needs both the sanctified interface and to transcend the interface.

[darren @darrenangle]

"a knowledge graph of 2.5M entities, and 16M entity relationships, 375,000 searchable passages, and 17,000 canonical concepts that we developed around our own ontology"

[Evan Buhler 🎸 @evanbuhler]

New product alert from @ZoharAtkins and @joinlightning. Trying this out today and recommend you do, too, if into spirituality and religion.

For transparency, @TalokCapital is an investor here and I am biased.

[Lightning Studios @joinlightning]

"But texts by themselves don't drive learning; information doesn't drive transformation."

[Zohar Atkins @ZoharAtkins]

I'm deeply grateful to announce the launch of @yochaiwiki - https://t.co/TDLSvY8bVX - a new way to learn Jewish texts.

The printing press made the library portable and cheap. @SefariaProject made the Jewish bookshelf free. And we're deeply grateful to them for enabling us to build atop their treasure trove. Claude and ChatGPT now make information free. But texts by themselves don't drive learning; information doesn't drive transformation. And Knowledge isn't "chiddush" (insight). The next frontier is personalized guidance through the library and the formation of deliberate practice.

Yochai is a Socratic AI "chevruta" or learning guide, powered by a foundational library of 1,000+ primary sources from the Jewish canon, (and a knowledge graph of 2.5M entities, and 16M entity relationships, 375,000 searchable passages, and 17,000 canonical concepts that we developed around our own ontology). Yochai, uniquely, takes you directly to the sources and pushes you to discover and articulate your own insights about them.

In addition to asking Yochai questions of life adviceor intellectual and spiritual interest, you can read the texts with Yochai's "lenses" in the margins, ask Yochai to produce lesson plans and source sheets, divrei Torah, textual outlines, and lit reviews, all backstopped by a verified library.

Yochai takes its name from Shimon Bar Yochai, 2nd century sage and purported author of my namesake.

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"God appears to forget and never does. The machine appears to remember but never waits."

[Zohar Atkins @ZoharAtkins]

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[Zohar Atkins @ZoharAtkins]

https://t.co/HM3RT0LVBW

[Lightning Studios @joinlightning]

"According to a famous Midrash, the two brothers split creation between themselves, one taking the land and one the "movables." One takes the data centers and the chips, one takes the application layer, the workflows, forward deployed engineers."

[Zohar Atkins @ZoharAtkins]

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[Lightning Studios @joinlightning]

"The machine never has to stay in the chair. But you, you must grow old in it."

[Zohar Atkins @ZoharAtkins]

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[Alix (Mini) @alixwiessser]

A joy to write for Second Voice on how each major documentation technology has reshaped how we reckon with truth.

[Lightning Studios @joinlightning]

https://t.co/V88WrSvS3O

[Lightning Studios @joinlightning]

Great essay by @alixwiessser on the tension between accuracy and meaningful friction in our pursuit of truth.

[Zohar Atkins @ZoharAtkins]

https://t.co/4KwQpb5zRi

[Bobby George @bobbyjgeorge]

Eric Lavin on how we prepare the next generation for a century where our most powerful tools write back to us.

Read the full essay for @joinlightning here: https://t.co/lutN5SGO5w

[Lightning Studios @joinlightning]

Knowledge graphs bring archives to life. Ontology + pedagogy + taste take cellars of data and make it personal and meaningful. We've built these for the Great Books of the Western canon, for the Jewish Library, are building one for the great texts of the East, have built several for more niche use cases (moral leadership coach, cooking guide, literary estates). Whether you're a large institution, like a university library or museum with a massive dataset or an individual with a body of work, like a guru with a self help philosophy, we can make your work learnable. Why us? Because we're the only team that combines AI-native expertise with an understanding of philosophy and pedagogy.

[Zohar Atkins @ZoharAtkins]

"The dove did not find rest."

Stunning Midrash likening Diaspora Jews to the dove Noah releases from his ark in search of dry land.

The time of Exile, which Deuteronomy and Lamentations cast as a punishment is repurposed simply as historical time, the time of waiting for return.

[Lightning Studios @joinlightning]

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[Lightning Studios @joinlightning]

How do we educate kids for a century where AI writes back in their own voice and rockets leave the planet?

In our latest essay, ed-tech investor Eric Lavin explores ego, the American Founders' "mechanism," and the future of agency. 🧵👇

[Lightning Studios @joinlightning]

"A blind man and a lame man get together to eat from a forbidden orchard; so too, the body and the soul work together to achieve their aims. Hardware and software, in person and remote, seal and wax, must work together to achieve their aims."

[Zohar Atkins @ZoharAtkins]

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