Mathematics & Logic
Transformers
Attention, next-word prediction and scale — and the gap between sounding right and being right.
- 9min read
- 9min listen
- 30questions
EdenMind is a flashcard app you answer out loud. A model on your phone grades what you said. You don’t mark your own work, and no audio leaves the device.
Mathematics & Logic
Deep learning
Nobody writes the rules. A network of simple calculations tunes itself on examples until its answers come out right.
- 8min read
- 10min listen
- 33questions
Mathematics & Logic
The bitter lesson
Seventy years of AI research, one uncomfortable pattern: methods that scale with computing beat methods built on what we know.
- 7min read
- 10min listen
- 24questions
Society
The medium is the message
Why a light bulb, a printing press and a television screen change people, whatever they carry.
- 8min read
- 27questions
Physics
Ibn al-Haytham
Lamps in a dark room, a tube on a ruler and a book of doubts — how one scholar rebuilt the science of sight.
- 8min read
- 25questions
Psychology
The testing effect
We think of a test as a way to measure learning. Done well, it is one of the best ways to cause it.
- 6min read
- 9min listen
- 21questions
Psychology
Spaced repetition
Memory fades along a curve. Coming back at the right moments bends it.
- 7min read
- 8min listen
- 20questions
Biology
The cell
The smallest thing that counts as alive — and the tiny machinery packed inside it.
- 8min read
- 31questions
