Learn Awesome

Project discontinued in 2024.

(Google + GoodReads + Google Maps) for lifelong learning. Open-source and free. By @nileshtrivedi

[Nilesh Trivedi @nileshtrivedi]

I finally pulled the plug on @Learn_Awesome. A few reasons:

- Human curation will become super valuable in the age of fast-changing knowledge and AI-generated content and therefore, will suffer even more from the free-rider problem (curators do all the work without getting much help from the leechers).

- Want to rethink tagging, taxonomy and similarity search using vector embeddings.

- It now seems possible to automatically build interactivity with personalization into existing curated static content.

- I would now prefer building for small but engaged user groups rather than anonymous web visitors.

[Nat Eliason @nateliason]

I'm trying to reprogram my brain to stop describing things as "hard"

[Learn Awesome @Learn_Awesome]

New feature: Roadmaps

https://t.co/m6x7TzWONd

[Learn Awesome @Learn_Awesome]

@tedcurran @sama @gdb @ilyasut @paulg @OpenAI This was before GPT-3 pricing was rolled out. Today, one can try the GPT-Neo hosted API by HuggingFace here: https://t.co/uKlhXjvwwo

2.7B param v/s 175B params for GPT-3. Looking up now, Google built a 1.6T param and China a 1.75T param since then. 😲

[Learn Awesome @Learn_Awesome]

Using GPT-3 for automatic quiz generation on any topic and then evaluating the students' answers. This thing is fantastic! @sama

[Learn Awesome @Learn_Awesome]

@alec_helbling @sama @gdb @ilyasut @paulg @OpenAI Answer to second seems a definite yes, at least on topics where questions require problem-solving.

The first one requires building a deep knowledge graph and then detecting the kind of mistake the student is making.

[Learn Awesome @Learn_Awesome]

Learning principles: Projects, Passion, Peers and Play 👍👌 (h/t @scratch)

[Learn Awesome @Learn_Awesome]

Thinking about moving the community chat from Slack to somewhere nicer. What would you prefer?

[Learn Awesome @Learn_Awesome]

Good news! 🎉🙂 We can now receive sponsorships and contributions thanks to @github sponsors and @opencollect:

https://t.co/norY3btZbb
https://t.co/kxtRkUtYbu

[Learn Awesome @Learn_Awesome]

@adiverse What kind of problems? 🤔 Hope you find something useful here: https://t.co/GgSYTWy3RT

[Learn Awesome @Learn_Awesome]

What do you want to learn this month?

[Nilesh Trivedi @nileshtrivedi]

Made a few improvements:

- Added a section "Do Good" so that it feels less narcissistic/self-indulging
- Life-stage (age) slider is now persisted in localStorage

Try it here & suggest improvements. Note: your data is NEVER sent to the server: https://t.co/rfwaCYvQL8

[Danielle Fong 🔆 @DanielleFong]

the quicker people build lifelong education into a parallel system you can seriously opt-in to in lieu of the mainline k-12-college-grad school legible education, the better. i am starting to feel like it is pretty mission critical; like education is getting profoundly bad

[Learn Awesome @Learn_Awesome]

@ringo_ring Hi Alexandra, thanks for all your work.

Question: is there a way one can know the IPFS hash of papers? We curate r best research papers on various topics but using URLs or DOI strings or ISBNs will always involve middle-men and therefore get in the way of durable access.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

People seem to treat their current amount of knowledge as a constant — sometimes almost a matter of identity. E.g. they'll say "I am a non-technical person" instead of "I haven't learned to program yet."

[Manish | Creating, without hustle. 🧘🏽‍♂️ @_zenman]

The rotten culture in the organizations is often propagated from the top to bottom.

Please counsel your staff, friends, whosoever to not shell out their hard-earned money on these apps, plenty of free, good resources are available. Check - @cs_pathshala, @Learn_Awesome.

[Learn Awesome @Learn_Awesome]

Simply click on the Gitpod badge in the README to get started: https://t.co/tgfCFej3Dy

Here is our gitpod config if you are curious: https://t.co/f7eHyzdUOU

[Learn Awesome @Learn_Awesome]

LearnAwesome's open-source code repo is now @gitpod ready! Simply visit a URL to get a full-fledged development environment with pre-loaded database, terminals for all needed processes, and a proper web URL to see your changes in action! 😲🥳🎉

See the README.

[Learn Awesome @Learn_Awesome]

We were on a hiatus for past few weeks, but we're back now. Bring on your bug reports and feature requests!

[Learn Awesome @Learn_Awesome]

🥳🎉New features for course-creators!

You can now make your course invite-only. Create invite codes & define their limits. Most common reason is to require a payment for your course! 💸

A course can now be run by multiple teachers with access to dashboard and chat rooms! 🎉

[Learn Awesome @Learn_Awesome]

This super-secret technique is what makes our courses work so well 🤫