{"id":2715,"date":"2020-03-29T13:27:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T17:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/?page_id=2715"},"modified":"2024-08-30T15:28:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T19:28:10","slug":"technical-ideas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/almanac\/things-i-like\/technical-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"breadcrumbs align  wp-block-bcn-breadcrumb-trail has-text-color has-background\" vocab=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/\" typeof=\"BreadcrumbList\">\n\t<span><\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Some more technical posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=2715&amp;action=edit#math\">science &amp; math<\/a>, <a href=\"#product-management\">engineering and product management<\/a>, <a href=\"#design\">art &amp; design<\/a>, and <a href=\"#technology\">technology<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"product-management\"><strong>Engineering and Product Management<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/product-management-at-aig\/\">agile product management<\/a> when I was at AIG.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/the-goal\/\">I wrote about the great book on operations, The Goal<\/a>, by Elihu Goldratt, has&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/Business\/The-Goal-Audiobook\/B00IFG88SM\/ref=a_search_c4_1_2_srTtl?qid=1506040905&amp;sr=1-2\" target=\"_blank\">an excellent audio version<\/a>. And there&#8217;s a&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.toc-goldratt.com\/TV\/video.php?id=482&amp;o=p-16245&amp;a=click_video&amp;ac=sus&amp;mtr=p-16245&amp;open=excerpt\" target=\"_blank\">video clip of Herbie&#8217;s hike<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"design\"><strong>Art &amp; Design<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/17\/10\/band-uses-video-delay-to-create-a-mesmerizing-visual-loop-sampler\" target=\"_blank\">A wonderful video that uses Facebook Live\u2019s time delay<\/a> to build a song from its component tracks.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In publishing, it&#8217;s common to put filler text in designs to avoid people focusing on the text. Normally you use <a href=\"https:\/\/loremipsum.io\/\">Lorem Ipsum <\/a>which is a standard Latin text. However, you can also use some other fun filler texts like <a href=\"https:\/\/baconipsum.com\/\">Bacon Ipsum<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cupcakeipsum.com\/\">Cupcake Ipsum<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/loremipsum.io\/ultimate-list-of-lorem-ipsum-generators\/\">more<\/a>. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Did you know that there&#8217;s a standard design to tell you if <a href=\"https:\/\/thenewswheel.com\/how-to-tell-which-side-of-car-gas-cap-on\/#:~:text=Still%2C%20studies%20like%20the%20one,right%20side%20of%20the%20car.\">your gas cap is on the right or left of your car<\/a>? This is useful for people like me that are always in rental cars.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sometimes there&#8217;s a button for a collapsed menu called a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hamburger_button\">hamburger menu<\/a>. If you click on the hamburger menu on the bottom of the page at <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\">Kottke.org<\/a> you are sent to posts about hamburgers. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The most famous medical map in the world, <a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/20\/06\/the-1850s-map-that-made-modern-epidemiology\">John Snow&#8217;s Cholera Map<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There&#8217;s a non-standard punctuation mark called the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interrobang\">interrobang<\/a> which is a combination of a question mark and exclamation point. Normally I&#8217;d write it as &#8220;?!&#8221; but using HTML code &#8220;&amp;#8253;&#8221; I can make the interrobang symbol as &#8220;\u203d&#8221;. Isn&#8217;t that exicting\u203d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"llm\">ChatGPT, OpenAI and LLMs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Here are some introductory level things I&#8217;ve been writing:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>My quick talk on <a href=\"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/almanac\/things-i-like\/technical-ideas\/ai-will-not-become-sentient-cg-councils\/\">Is AI Sentient?<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/almanac\/things-i-like\/technical-ideas\/can-ai-think\/\">extensive notes for the debate<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/almanac\/things-i-like\/technical-ideas\/chatgpt-and-llms\/\">An Intro LLMs Workshop I led (Oct. 4 2023)<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/llm-prompts\/\">Some notes on introductory prompts for Product Managers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Here are some conversations I&#8217;ve had with OpenAI  (Bing)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/almanac\/things-i-like\/technical-ideas\/the-limits-of-ai-conversation-with-bing\/\">What are the limits of  AI?<\/a>, Robert Schlaff in conversation with OpenAI 4.0 with Bing Chat, July 23 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/almanac\/things-i-like\/technical-ideas\/how-can-we-better-collaborate-will-ai-help-or-hurt\/\">How Can We Better Collaborate? Will AI Help or Hurt?<\/a>, Robert Schlaff in conversation with OpenAI 4.0 with Bing Chat, July 30, 2023 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/almanac\/things-i-like\/technical-ideas\/will-ai-make-people-dumber\/\">Will AI Make People Dumber?<\/a>, Robert Schlaff in conversation with OpenAI 4.0 with Bing Chat, July 30, 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seinfeld scripts about jobs: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?&amp;q=What+is+the+new+Bing%3F&amp;showconv=1&amp;ntref=1&amp;filters=wholepagesharingscenario%3A%22Conversation%22&amp;shareId=88cfdcf7-5f1f-4252-a8b2-a0de8b97f29f&amp;shtc=0&amp;shsc=Codex_ConversationMode&amp;form=EX0050&amp;shid=51e07ee1-66cf-45c5-b2eb-33271b30c3b9&amp;shtp=GetUrl&amp;shtk=V3JpdGUgYSBzY3JpcHQgZm9yIHRoZSB0ZWxldmlzaW9uIHNob3cgc2VpbmZlbGQgd2hlcmUgZ2VvcmdlIGFuZCBqZXJyeSBkaXNjdXNzIHRoZSBwcm9mZXNzaW9uIG9mIGV2ZW50IHBsYW5uaW5nLg%3D%3D&amp;shdk=SGVyZSdzIGFuIGFuc3dlciBJIGdvdCB1c2luZyB0aGUgbmV3IEJpbmcsIHRoZSB3b3JsZCdzIGZpcnN0IEFJLXBvd2VyZWQgYW5zd2VyIGVuZ2luZS4gQ2xpY2sgdG8gc2VlIHRoZSBmdWxsIGFuc3dlciBhbmQgdHJ5IGl0IHlvdXJzZWxmLg%3D%3D&amp;shhk=nZYBM5jtGCt%2F87%2BNpdbLCGnqvqQQBwVJwsnvelP5mZA%3D&amp;shth=OBFB.107AF8B2FB79BD01FFDCABA4D756224A\">Event Planning<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/ai-light-bulb-joke-list\/\">AI Joke List (Including Light Bulb Jokes)<\/a>. Bing Chat, October 2023+.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/almanac\/things-i-like\/technical-ideas\/ai-rewrites-what-ai-think-of-itself\/\">AI Rewrites (What AI Think of Itself)<\/a>. Bing Chat, Jan 5, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/almanac\/things-i-like\/technical-ideas\/using-light-bulb-jokes-to-understand-chatgpts-racial-programming\/\">Using Light Bulb Jokes to Understand ChatGPT&#8217;s Racial Programming<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/almanac\/things-i-like\/technical-ideas\/flowchart-for-an-ai-story\/\">A Flowchart for an AI story<\/a> and OpenAI&#8217;s interpretation of the flowchart.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Other Experiments with AI<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I tried using Bing Chat to co-write an article <a href=\"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/almanac\/things-i-like\/technical-ideas\/co-writing-with-bing-was-sam-bankman-fried-a-modern-day-robin-hood\/\">Was Sam Bankman Fried a Modern Day Robin Hood<\/a> and found that it prompts my thinking and helps me structure things. At this point, it writes stilted sentences and makes up articles.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This fiction experiment worked better. It wrote some pretty good fiction about my obsession with sports during, and only during the Harvard-Yale game. <a href=\"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/almanac\/things-i-like\/technical-ideas\/the-strange-case-of-rob-and-mr-bulldog\/\">The Strange Case of Rob and Mr. Bulldog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Experts on LLMs<\/strong>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/impromptubook.com\">Impromptu<\/a> by Reid Hoffman is the best book I&#8217;ve found to prepare for the LLM future. Reid is a founder of OpenAI and shows how to practically use it across multiple domains.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/almanac\/things-i-like\/technical-ideas\/can-agi-think-geoff-hinton\/\">Can AGI Think? (Geoff Hinton)<\/a>. Less of a chat and mostly an extract of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/plaintext-geoffrey-hinton-godfather-of-ai-future-ai\/\">Steven Levy&#8217;s Interview with Hinton from Wired<\/a>. August 2023. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Can AGI Think? (Stephem Wolfram). TBD. This will be notes from Wolframs 2 big papers.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/writings.stephenwolfram.com\/2023\/02\/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work\/\">What is ChatGPT and How does it Work<\/a> by Stephen Wolfram &#8212; The best description of how ChatGPT works. It starts simple and gets very technical by the end. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/writings.stephenwolfram.com\/2023\/03\/will-ais-take-all-our-jobs-and-end-human-history-or-not-well-its-complicated\/\">Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History\u2014or Not? Well, It\u2019s Complicated&#8230;<\/a> Wolfram&#8217;s follow-up on the effect of ChatGPT.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The prompt engineer guy&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>John Maeda. How to talk to computers. Design in Tech. Prompt Engineering.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Speak-Machine-Computational-Thinking\/dp\/039956442X\">How to Speak Machine<\/a> by John Maeda, written in 2019, this book goes very deep into how humans and machines work together. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Older AI Notes.<\/strong> AI is an incredibly powerful tool. To understand how it works, there&#8217;s an <a href=\"https:\/\/code.org\/oceans\">explanation for kids that&#8217;s pretty good for adults<\/a>.&nbsp;The New York Times explains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/14\/magazine\/the-great-ai-awakening.html\">Google&#8217;s AI transformation<\/a>. Alfred Spector, the former head of Google Research, gives an insightful speech on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/data-science-needs-breadth-attention-alfred-spector\/\" target=\"_blank\">opportunities and perils of Artificial Intelligence<\/a>. Dr. Michael Stonebraker is one of the founders of the widely used POSTGRES database <a href=\"https:\/\/ilp.mit.edu\/watch\/michael-stonebraker-2019-citi-ny\">talks about big data<\/a>, which is a prerequisite for AI. Also, take a look at the TED talks by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/peter_haas_the_real_reason_to_be_afraid_of_artificial_intelligence?language=en\">Pete Haas<\/a> (my friend from Yale) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/cathy_o_neil_the_era_of_blind_faith_in_big_data_must_end?language=en\">Cathy O&#8217;Neil<\/a> (author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/cathy_o_neil_the_era_of_blind_faith_in_big_data_must_end?language=en\">Weapons of Math Destruction<\/a>) to see where we should be suspicious of AI. (From 2021)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>AI Computers Play Video Games.<\/strong> Google\u2019s DeepMind can learn to play video games just by playing games and having no other training.&nbsp;And <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/V1eYniJ0Rnk\" target=\"_blank\">here\u2019s a video of it learning to play Breakout<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a video of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lu56xVlZ40M\">OpenAI playing Hide and Seek\u2026and breaking the Game<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"technology\"><strong>Technology<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/man-computer-symbiosis-2\/\"><\/a><strong><a id=\"human-computer-interaction\"><\/a>Human-Computer Interaction.<\/strong>&nbsp;In 2016,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/man-computer-symbiosis-2\/\">I wrote about how computers and people work together<\/a>&nbsp;and how computers and people work together to solve hard problems. Gary Kasparov gave a great presentation on how&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/garry_kasparov_don_t_fear_intelligent_machines_work_with_them\/transcript?language=en#t-39686\">computers and humans can partner together<\/a>&nbsp;to beat both the best human players OR the best computers. Kasparov also did a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2010\/feb\/11\/the-chess-master-and-the-computer\/\">great write up of his thoughts in the New York Review of books<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Apple<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Steve Jobs:<\/strong>  In 1983 Steve Jobs gave a talk on how computing <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VdFpm4mCdqs\" target=\"_blank\">will change once computers got small enough to be embedded around the home and office<\/a>. Also, there&#8217;s a crazy story of how <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Breakout_(video_game)#History_and_development\">Steve Jobs was unfair to Steve Wozniak<\/a> early on in their partnership on the game Breakout. Early on, the Steves sold Blue Boxes. This is the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Breakout_(video_game)#History_and_development\">iconic article on Blue Boxes<\/a>. And of course there&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kGoBer6grTw\">Crazy Ones video from Steve&#8217;s funeral<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GEPhLqwKo6g\">Steve&#8217;s Narration over a draft of the ad<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Apple Videos: <\/strong>While everyone has seen the Macintosh 1984 commercial, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lSiQA6KKyJo&amp;index=73&amp;list=FLEx1uLQAZvR86lXZs9URiGw\" target=\"_blank\">I had never realized that Jobs gave an intro to it during a 1983 Keynote<\/a>. To go along with the Macintosh Ad, take a look at this parody of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xz5Tx7hNR64&amp;index=31&amp;list=FLEx1uLQAZvR86lXZs9URiGw\" target=\"_blank\">Every Tech Commercial Ever Made<\/a>. As much as John Sculley gets tarred as backward thinking, he produced a pretty good view of the future in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-future-computer-knowledge-navigator-john-sculley-george-lucas-2017-10\">1987 video of the Knowledge Navigator<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Reading<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Here&#8217;s a list of <a href=\"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/almanac\/writing\/almanac-articles#best-tech-articles\">my favorite tech articles<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Andy Hertzfeld has a history of Apple at <a href=\"http:\/\/folklore.org\">folklore.org<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I enjoyed the oral history of Silicon Valley in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Valley-Genius-Uncensored-History-Founders\/dp\/1455559024\">Valley of Genius<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foundersatwork.com\/\">Founders at Work<\/a>, Jessica Livingston did an awesome set of interviews with founders of companies like Apple, Visicalc, Bloggers, Craigslist, and many more.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Nudist-Late-Shift-Silicon-Valley\/dp\/0375502777\">Nudist on the Late Shift<\/a> is Po Bronson&#8217;s account of the Tech Boom.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Web3 Reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/web3isgoinggreat.com\/\">Web3 s Going Great Just Great<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"festival-of-the-spoken-nerd\">Science &amp; Math<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/fotsn\/featured?pbjreload=10\" target=\"_blank\">Festival of the Spoken Nerd<\/a>&nbsp;is the most adult geeky fun thing that I\u2019ve ever seen. Have a look at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GimVcFgkpZA\">their trailer<\/a>. They have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.festivalofthespokennerd.com\/\">3 live shows you can buy from their website for about $4 apiece<\/a>. The math guy, Matt Parker, has his own site&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/standupmaths\" target=\"_blank\">Stand Up Maths<\/a>. He has&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UBX2QQHlQ_I\" target=\"_blank\">an amazing video of spreadsheets<\/a>&nbsp;that\u2019s worth sharing with kids and a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6JwEYamjXpA\">fun one on when math goes wrong and probability<\/a>&nbsp;(the probability part is particularly amazing). He has another talk that includes some wonderful&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1wAaI_6b9JE?t=1481\">craft projects you can do at home with a Mobius strip<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/how-numbers-work-in-the-real-world\/\">How Numbers Work in the Real World.<\/a>&nbsp;In school, we were taught that math is linear; however, in the real world, distributions are more likely to be&nbsp;exponential.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/the-liars-paradox-or-why-there-cant-be-an-opposite-day\/\">Why Today Can\u2019t Be an Opposite Day.<\/a>&nbsp;How the statement \u201cToday is Opposite Day\u201d is mathematically inconsistent.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/game-theory-for-parents\/\">Game Theory for Parents.<\/a>&nbsp;Game theory provides some interesting lessons on how to equitably share a piece of pie.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/nontransitive-dice\/\">Nontransitive dice<\/a>&nbsp;are sets of dice that don\u2019t adhere to the transitive principle that if A &gt; B and B &gt; C then A &gt; C. If that seems weird, think about the game Rock Paper Scissors where there\u2019s no best throw.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mathematicians-Lament-School-Fascinating-Imaginative\/dp\/1934137170\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1451218362&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=math+lament\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Mathematician\u2019s Lament<\/a>&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maa.org\/external_archive\/devlin\/LockhartsLament.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">free abridged version here<\/a>) is a great book on math education \u2014 focusing on how kids should be learning math.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For those of you that want a more \u201cadult\u201d basic math book, check out Steve Strotgatz\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Joy-Guided-Tour-Infinity\/dp\/0544105850\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joy of X<\/a>&nbsp;is quite good \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/opinion\/series\/steven_strogatz_on_the_elements_of_math\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">you can also read a number of his articles in the New York Times<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Math-Bad-Drawings-Illuminating-Reality\/dp\/0316509035\/ref=asc_df_0316509035\/?tag=hyprod-20&amp;linkCode=df0&amp;hvadid=312168166316&amp;hvpos=&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=2869033431159183296&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvdvcmdl=&amp;hvlocint=&amp;hvlocphy=9003503&amp;hvtargid=pla-523735487893&amp;psc=1\">Math with Bad Drawings<\/a>&nbsp;by my friend Ben Orlin is also very good. He goes deep into the math (and the philosophy of math) but makes it fun and interesting.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Benny\u2019s Rules is a famous math education paper, part of a set of \u201cDisaster Papers,\u201d on how&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.mathed.net\/2011\/07\/rysk-erlwangers-bennys-conception-of.html\" target=\"_blank\">individualized instruction measured in an automated way can go horribly wrong<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some more technical posts on science &amp; math, engineering and product management, art &amp; design, and technology. Engineering and Product Management Art &amp; Design ChatGPT, OpenAI and LLMs Technology Science &amp; Math<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2965,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2715","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8wCkz-HN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2965,"url":"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/almanac\/things-i-like\/","url_meta":{"origin":2715,"position":0},"title":"Things I Like","author":"Robert Schlaff","date":"April 16, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Kid Stuff. With two young boys, I've found a lot of fun stuff for us. Here\u2019s a collection of\u00a0general parenting,\u00a0science & math,\u00a0media, and\u00a0toys\u00a0that I like.Favorite Words. I love words.\u00a0 I wrote about how looking at various different words, I can see the contours of our common human experience. It\u2019s amazing\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2295,"url":"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/almanac\/website-history-and-reviews\/my-original-almanac\/","url_meta":{"origin":2715,"position":1},"title":"My Original Library (2016)","author":"Robert Schlaff","date":"February 9, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"This page was my original library (which I referred to as my almanac) from 2006. At the time it was my entire website. After a number of years pretending that I was going to blog, I decided to put up a website of cool tools that you might find useful.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2615,"url":"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/almanac\/things-i-like\/almanac-learning-from-the-best-in-the-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":2715,"position":2},"title":"Learning from the Best in the World","author":"Robert Schlaff","date":"March 23, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"There's a difference between your friend telling you something and hearing it from someone who's spent their life studying it. Here are some of my experts and classes to learn from: And the Winner is... It's amazing how some of the best lectures are now available online. Here's a few\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2221,"url":"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/almanac\/","url_meta":{"origin":2715,"position":3},"title":"My Library","author":"Robert Schlaff","date":"March 1, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I wanted a place to put all the stuff I think is awesome. Growing up, I always wanted to have a great library in my house. I remembered the excitement when I learned that I could buy the entire collection of The New Yorker in bound volumes and put them\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4604,"url":"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/almanac\/website-history-and-reviews\/wishing-you-a-far-better-2021\/","url_meta":{"origin":2715,"position":4},"title":"Wishing You a Far Better 2021!","author":"Robert Schlaff","date":"January 1, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"A HOLIDAY GIFT FOR YOU I wanted to give you all a meaningful holiday gift. This is difficult during normal times, and even more difficult during the pandemic. I\u2019ve always admired people who can give holiday gifts that are truly unique. Designers do it best. Earlier this year, I wrote\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/schlaff.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/My-Business-Card-1.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10268,"url":"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/almanac\/website-history-and-reviews\/wishing-you-a-far-better-2021-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":2715,"position":5},"title":"Wishing You a Far Better 2021","author":"Robert Schlaff","date":"November 23, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Let your browser download images or the first part will be pretty boring\u2026 Hello Friends, We started 2020 with such high aspirations! The world was entering a whole new decade and we were going to do great things. Then came March. It's hard to fathom how quickly things changed from\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/ci5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/e79d9E_us3RpQ4kCGiR9g59BGsRqVKZ1oTMlMZuS8cipseqWJlilnyH5MZz_6BH9eOWFkDlMZOiw-m-S8uBbfaQqPA-jQ8Po9q5IXX2uLE-ioV-eehqHxiS_Ae6ce90cLtxANMw2JzEpiQ=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/2020-Would-Not-Recommend-1024x547.png","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2715"}],"version-history":[{"count":55,"href":"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9838,"href":"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2715\/revisions\/9838"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}