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 👇
Just because anyone can build software now doesn't mean software is dead. Anyone can bake bread in their home right now, yet 99% of us still choose to buy it from someone else. Simple products are complex! I will always be happy to pay someone to handle the nuances.
The Fed raised rates 525bp over 16 months.
Downstream impact: ~$30 trillion moved across bonds, equities, housing, banking, and emerging markets.
One input. Four channels. Here's how it actually traveled:
$45T in damage.
13 crises. 10 years.
Each began locally. Each spread globally; through supply chains, energy, credit, or policy.
Different triggers, similar dynamics: interconnected systems amplify shocks.
https://t.co/7ApHp7fTqC
#SystemsThinking#Macro#Risk
Gold hit $5,595 during the Iran war. Then crashed 27% - while bombs were still falling.
War doesn't move gold. Two competing feedback loops do. One drives it up through oil shocks and inflation fear. The other crushes it through dollar strength.
#Geopolitics#SystemDynamics
@bcherny I tried it. It seems to be having some issues with bug fixing. Bug gets fixed, code simplified introduces a new one. Have to iterate many times to get it right. Ended up consuming more tokens. Same bug was fixed easily with a simple prompt later after disabling simplifier.
Very roughly: AI speeds everything up within your trusted tribe but makes things low-trust and cumbersome outside it.
Within your tribe you can share context and the AI will create useful code. Outside, however, you’ll hit a wall of AI spam.
Crypto is almost the opposite. Cryptographically provable transactions within your tribe are somewhat useful, but outside your tribe they are absolutely necessary.
So: AI is how a tribe internally cooperates, while crypto is more about how a tribe externally interacts.
India registers fewer patents per capita than Iran and Columbia
India has fewer Nobel Prizes than Hungary and Poland
We are the world's 4th largest economy.
But we barely innovate.