In a previous edition of Homeschool Wednesdays, I had written about different ways of motivating the study of math. In particular I suggested that showing how math can be beautiful may be one way to get some kids interested in it. My first foray into that was showing how spirals occur in nature and can easily be modeled using math. In my presentation this past Sunday I talked about waves. Here it is:
Math & Beauty 2: Waves from Albert Wenger
When I presented it, the embed on Slide 10 actually played right in the presentation but PDF upload to Slideshare can’t do that. So here it is instead (taken from the awesome Wikipedia entry on sine):
Also you will definitely want to head over to the gorgeous simulation of overlapping waves that I link to from the second to last slide. I promise that it is absolutely stunning.
In a previous edition of Homeschool Wednesdays, I had written about different ways of motivating the study of math. In particular I suggested that showing how math can be beautiful may be one way to get some kids interested in it. My first foray into that was showing how spirals occur in nature and can easily be modeled using math. In my presentation this past Sunday I talked about waves. Here it is:
Math & Beauty 2: Waves from Albert Wenger
When I presented it, the embed on Slide 10 actually played right in the presentation but PDF upload to Slideshare can’t do that. So here it is instead (taken from the awesome Wikipedia entry on sine):
Also you will definitely want to head over to the gorgeous simulation of overlapping waves that I link to from the second to last slide. I promise that it is absolutely stunning.
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Philosophy Mondays: Human-AI Collaboration
Today's Philosophy Monday is an important interlude. I want to reveal that I have not been writing the posts in this series entirely by myself. Instead I have been working with Claude, not just for the graphic illustrations, but also for the text. My method has been to write a rough draft and then ask Claude for improvement suggestions. I will expand this collaboration to other intelligences going forward, including open source models such as Llama and DeepSeek. I will also explore other moda...
Modeling The AGI Economy
Competition, Redistribution and the Fork Ahead
Intent-based Collaboration Environments
AI Native IDEs for Code, Engineering, Science
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