Where To Find the Best Open Educational Resources (OER) — When I began my career as an educator in the early 2000s, I thought textbooks were on their way out. Laptops and desktops had already become ubiquitous. PDFs of every textbook were almost as easy to download as songs on Napster. Since at least 2009 we weren’t paying $10 for…

What you can do to ensure you’re one of the few who succeeds — I’ve professionally tutored calculus, logic, statistics, accounting, and economics to tens of thousands of students over the last twenty years. I know what it takes for people to learn challenging content. No matter what it is, you can’t get there without struggle. It’s very tempting to watch tutorial after tutorial…

Adapting to the reality that all human knowledge is in every pocket — Imagine an art school that spares no expense. It gives each student a sweet, top notch painting set. Fresh out of the wrapper, there’s a palette, an easel, and a whole array of brushes for every student. Top of the line. Oh… just one thing. No paints. Paints are simply…

If you’re interested in studying and training artificial intelligence then you’re probably either fluent in Python already, or you’re trying to learn. It’s one of the most popular languages because of its ease of use, versatility, large community, and excellent libraries. I’m in the second category. As an abbreviated follow-up…

The urgency of learning AI today— plus some powerful free resources to help you get started — In 2020, a top market research firm confidently published “Worldwide Spending on Artificial Intelligence Is Expected to Double in Four Years, Reaching $110 Billion in 2024, According to New IDC Spending Guide.” That’s an impressive 15x increase over less than a decade. …

Technology has solved a problem that politics can’t — I went through a phase where I used to pay a lot of money for outdated, mediocre, marginally interesting courses. I call it “college”. That’s ironic for me to say, given that as a lifelong college employee I still depend on an institution for a paycheck. But it’s true. And…

Mainly these notes are for me to refer back to, but I’ll make this public just in case it helps other Medium subscribers — I LOVE free courses. It’s crazy to me that everybody everywhere isn’t obsessed with learning future tech. For free. On demand. By the world’s top professors. Why do anything else? I’m currently enjoying a course by Columbia University Professor and Scikit-Learn core developer Andreas Mueller even more than one that…

Under “Code is Law”, might things really be different this time around? — Grand monuments to the shattered Soviet empire are a haunting reminder of its tragic legacy. Some of the 20th century’s boldest and most idealistic utopians successfully overthrew an archaic, corrupt, and unjust Tsarist aristocracy — only to replace it with something even worse. Things can always get worse. In the…

Grappling with Dan Olsen’s “Line Goes Up” — [last updated 7/7/2022] Not Financial Advice (NFA)| Do Your Own Research (DYOR) A few days ago, Dan Olsen dropped a comprehensive, scathing video in which he does his absolute best to deliver a Mortal Kombat fatality to just about everything I’ve devoted a year of my life to. It’s nothing…