Darren Yung - @[email protected]

ICT Teacher, Digital Senior Citizen, Programming, Open Source Software, Linux, DSLR Photography and person in real life! Now into playing Bass Guitar

[Darren Yung - @[email protected] @penphoe]

@davepl1968 That rings a bell from back in my BBS days. PKZip - Phil Katz Zip!

[Cheri DiNovo @CheriDiNovo]

Are you in favour of expelling Hoekstra US Ambassador supporting Alberta separating from Canada?

If so - keep passing this on - until we get a response from the politicians

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

I'd never seen this -- MAD Magazine, 1991. Really good.

[восхищённый болгарин™ @dedzaebal]

Убитой и запытанной в плену журналистке Виктории Рощиной россияне сломали затылочную кость, когда ее удерживали в СИЗО в Таганроге.
Я напомню что при передаче тела у девушки оказалось что отсутствовали внутренние органы, головной мозг, глазные яблоки, часть трахеи.

Очередное напоминание всему миру с кем воюет Украина. Это не люди.

[Darren Yung - @[email protected] @penphoe]

@Cmdr_Hadfield @shuffles99 So how much is that butt, ahem I mean space seat worth? ;)

[Darren Yung - @[email protected] @penphoe]

@ComputerLove_

[Canada Goose 🇨🇦 @CanadaGoose911]

Twitter FOREVER bitch!

[Darren Yung - @[email protected] @penphoe]

@csanchez GUS!!!!!

[Darren Yung - @[email protected] @penphoe]

@worthitornoteh Reach for the Top. Oh and of course HNIC - Hockey Night in Canada. Mr. Dressup.

[exQUIZitely 🕹️ @exQUIZitely]

120 frames per second are the current "baseline standard" for most modern PC games.

Meanwhile, gamers in the 80s enjoying a scenic run at 4 FPS.

[Darren Yung - @[email protected] @penphoe]

I used NCSA Mosaic before NN.

[⭕ Brock Pierson @brockpierson]

Did you personally ever use Netscape Navigator?

[Darren Yung - @[email protected] @penphoe]

@justdavenow89 I had the vaccine and got sick at the height of COVID. This was before the at-home tests. It was so rampant that if you had symptoms don't bother going to the testing centers as they were overwhelmed! I know the vaccine helped me recover because my body recognized it!

[Callie Allie ✝️🇺🇲 @csimons3]

All of the sympathetic comments about Joni Lamb's death are making my stomach upset.

She could be kind and generous and do lots of great things for many ministries while also being corrupt. We should not dance on her grave. Acknowledge her death and pray for her family. Pray for the truth to prevail.

But at the same time, we cannot set aside the serious allegations she was covering up sexual abuse to save the family reputation, among many other concerning facts. That doesn't go to the grave with her.

The fact that God took her off this earth should be saying something loudly to us, but everyone seems to be ignoring that.

When is the church going to finally get angry enough about corruption and perverted leadership to stop eulogizing it?

PS - this is an extremely fair and unbiased reporting of the entire situation
https://t.co/tdYcEnpfWE

[Phil Vischer @philvischer]

The best way to convince people you aren’t praying before a golden idol would be to not pray before a golden idol.

[Darren Yung - @[email protected] @penphoe]

@davepl1968 Maybe you should do a Halloween episode when you bring the PETs from the PET Cemetery back to life! Muhahahahaha!

[Darren Yung - @[email protected] @penphoe]

@davepl1968 What does work is that 90s design on the fabric!

[Jen (ESC) 🇨🇦❤️🦋 @Smil3yAngel]

Every single Canadian should watch this video.

CBC has uncovered YouTubers who are being paid to promote Alberta separatism.

I am angry 😡

Exposing 'faceless' YouTubers pushing Canada to join the U.S. | https://t.co/OAUocPb65G https://t.co/e7Z0jw4VxE

[Darren Yung - @[email protected] @penphoe]

It's been a long time since I've taken a linear algebra course. Maybe I should retake it!

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

An MIT professor taught the same math course for 62 years, and the day he retired, students from every country on earth showed up online to watch him give his final lecture.

I opened the playlist at 2am and ended up watching three of them back to back.

His name is Gilbert Strang. The course is MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra.

Every machine learning engineer, every data scientist, every quant, every self-taught programmer who actually understands how AI works learned the math from this one man. Most of them never set foot on MIT's campus. They just opened a free playlist on YouTube and let him teach.

Here's the story almost nobody tells you.

Strang joined the MIT math faculty in 1962. He retired in 2023. That is 61 years of standing at the same chalkboard teaching the same subject to 18-year-olds.

The interesting part is what he did when MIT launched OpenCourseWare in 2002. Most professors were skeptical. They worried that putting their lectures online would make their classrooms irrelevant. Strang did not hesitate. He said his life's mission was to open mathematics to students everywhere. He filmed every lecture and gave it away.

The decision quietly changed how the world learns math.

For decades linear algebra was taught the wrong way. Professors started with abstract vector spaces and proofs about field axioms. Students drowned in the abstraction. Most never recovered. They walked out believing they were bad at math when they had simply been taught in an order that nobody's brain is built to absorb.

Strang inverted the entire curriculum.

He started with matrix multiplication. Something you can write down on paper. Something you can compute by hand. Something you can see. Then he showed his students that everything else in linear algebra eigenvectors, singular value decomposition, orthogonality, the four fundamental subspaces was just a different lens for understanding what the matrix was actually doing under the hood.

His rule was strict. If a student could not explain a concept using a concrete 3 by 3 example, that student did not actually understand the concept yet. The abstraction was supposed to come last, not first. The intuition was the foundation. The proofs were just confirmation that the intuition was correct.

The second thing Strang changed was the classroom itself. He said please and thank you to his students. Every single lecture. He paused mid-derivation to ask "am I OK?" to check if anyone was lost. He never used the word "obviously" or "trivially" because he knew exactly what those words do to a student who is one step behind. He treated 19-year-olds learning math for the first time the way he treated his own colleagues. With patience. With respect. With the assumption that they belonged in the room.

For 62 years.

The result is something that has never happened in the history of education. A single math professor became the default teacher of his subject for the entire planet.

Universities in India, China, Brazil, Nigeria, every country with a computer science department, started telling their own students to just watch Strang's lectures. The University of Illinois revised its linear algebra course to do almost no in-person lecturing. The reason was honest. The professor said they could not compete with the videos.

His final lecture was in May 2023.

The auditorium was packed with students who had never met him before. He walked to the chalkboard, taught for an hour, and at the end the entire room stood and applauded. He looked confused for a moment, like he genuinely did not understand why they were cheering. Then he smiled and waved them off and walked out.

His written comment under the YouTube video of that final lecture was four sentences long. He said teaching had been a wonderful life. He said he was grateful to everyone who saw the importance of linear algebra. He said the movement of teaching it well would continue because it was right.

That was it. No book promotion. No farewell speech. No legacy management.

The man whose teaching is the foundation of modern AI just thanked the audience and went home.

20 million views. Zero ego. The entire engine of the AI revolution sits on top of math that millions of people learned for free from one quiet professor in Cambridge.

The course is still on MIT OpenCourseWare. Every lecture, every problem set, every exam, every solution. Free.

The most important math course of the 21st century is sitting one click away from you. Most people will never open it.

[Darren Yung - @[email protected] @penphoe]

@davepl1968 What's the number assigned to it so I can call you?

Do an outgoing collect call from "it's a baby boy"