Rahul Raghavan

the holder in midfield

[Rahul Raghavan @rahulrg]

@karthiks 5-8th grade is painfully slow in many (most?) math curricula, so I think 2 grade levels of acceleration is possible for the motivated student.

[Rahul Raghavan @rahulrg]

@sajithpai Becoming more like the US on this dimension rather than say China or Singapore does seem like a net loss.

[Rahul Raghavan @rahulrg]

@sajithpai I was studying the history of ICSE and then IGCSE in India...

It does seem like the old pipeline from top metro school to IIT is now top metro school to non-tech MERIT...which changes school in all kinds of ways.

[Rahul Raghavan @rahulrg]

@sajithpai this has aged very well.

[Rahul Raghavan @rahulrg]

@learning_pt agreed in languages + literature + humanities to some extent. but in K12 exams in other subjects: i wonder why? it feeds into our worst tendencies (random writing for marks)

[Rahul Raghavan @rahulrg]

@kamilkazani Suetonius at 12?! Would love to know what else was part of the compulsory Soviet canon

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

There's a whole book called The Case Against Adolescence. Adolescence was created as a category in the 20th century. Prior to the 20th century, we didn't even have the category of adolescence.

Andrew Carnegie, Ben Franklin, John Muir, and Thomas Edison all began their professional careers at 13. Back in the 18th and 19th centuries in the U.S. and in much of the world, teenagers had pretty much adult-level responsibilities and started their lives. One of the biggest flaws in our society is the infantilization of adolescence.

Teen suicides have increased three times since the 1950s. I think education, traditional school, is humiliating for many kids who don't happen to be good at school.

The goal is for every TSE student to be doing adult-level professional work or better by the age of 18. I've had students start companies and write novels. I had one who was a day trader, somebody else who did a website for the American Idol finalist, had a student who did a music festival in Austin, a three-day music festival, 80,000 budget.

[Timothy Gowers @wtgowers @wtgowers]

AI has now solved a major open problem -- one of the best known Erdos problems called the unit distance problem, one of Erdos's favourite questions and one that many mathematicians had tried.
https://t.co/SD1vVPkrHR

[Mark™ @thinkwithmark]

We raised $1M dollars to reinvent how people read. Introducing Mark II - a $159 AI bookmark. Thread below

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

Fun fact: Romania’s president, Nicușor Dan, was one of the 11 students to solve the legendary Problem 6 at the 1988 IMO.

He scored a perfect 42/42 that year, alongside future Fields Medalist Ngô Bảo Châu. Ravi Vakil also solved it.

Terence Tao, aged just 13, got 1/7 on that problem, aced almost everything else, and still won gold.

[Catherine Yeo @catherinehyeo]

Love seeing Naomi Osaka honor the CLRS Algorithms textbook at this year's Met Gala

[Zac @Zac_labs]

Singapore’s AI obsession just hit Everest peak.

The Foreign Minister is self-hosting Claude on a Raspberry Pi and building a diplomatic knowledge graph using Karpathy’s LLM Wiki pattern. Wahlao!

SG devs, the minister is coming for your job. And he’s not even using Cursor — he’s on NanoClaw running locally. Can someone git pull his code and give it a test.

Only bad thing? He dropped this on Facebook instead of X. Minister, we need to talk.

https://t.co/JzU3ZeBdPz

[Rahul Raghavan @rahulrg]

@HiTw93 Kami is just amazing, thank you for this gift.

[Rahul Raghavan @rahulrg]

@JaycelAdkins i'd 100% suggest the Bibek Debroy....

[Rahul Raghavan @rahulrg]

much like chess was a leading indicator of the ai era, perhaps it is a leading indicator for pedagogy as well? tech-led personalized tutoring + human coach to orchestrate/motivate.

[John Bartholomew @fins0905]

The recent Sindarov interview in El Pais is great.

I think elite young players have a more practical approach to chess training than past generations. They don't seem to view books and rigorous absorption of chess "culture" to be prerequisites for success at the top level.

[Rahul Raghavan @rahulrg]

@sajithpai welcome to Bangalore :-)

[Rahul Raghavan @rahulrg]

And how would *you* calculate x + y mod 113?

[Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen]

This problem of extracting explanations from large models is interesting. Magnus Carlsen's team seems to have benefited (a lot) from some phenomenology of AlphaZero

[Declaration of Memes @LibertyCappy]

The dinner table is the most underrated classroom in the world

[Kelley Owens @kelleylowens]

Every educator needs to keep this Flannery O'Connor gem in a back pocket for the next time a student complains about the relevance or boringness of an older book...

“And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.”