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Education has always meant more than acquiring knowledge. It means participating in institutions and cultural traditions that preserve knowledge for future generations. When John Eliot, the New England Company, and Harvard College marketed themselves to the British Parliament and wealthy British families for funding in colonial America, they did so under the banner of a philanthropic endeavor to…
When I went to UC Irvine, one of my first classes introduced SMART goals as a way to begin planning out our educational journey. I originally intended this article to be about making a potential productivity tool more accessible. To some extent, that will still be true. However, after I graduated, I noticed some recurring patterns in the way number games are played in every institution (go watch…
At UC Irvine, I specialized in Intelligent Systems. Which is rather strange because I don’t believe there’s much consensus, even among those with the specialization, about how we should define intelligence. We do touch on the ambiguity of it. We go through the classic thought experiments that probe at consciousness, intelligence, originality, subjectivity, and sentience: John Searle’s Chinese…
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Education has always meant more than acquiring knowledge. It means participating in institutions and cultural traditions that preserve knowledge for future generations. When John Eliot, the New England Company, and Harvard College marketed themselves to the British Parliament and wealthy British families for funding in colonial America, they did so under the banner of a philanthropic endeavor to…
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When I went to UC Irvine, one of my first classes introduced SMART goals as a way to begin planning out our educational journey. I originally intended this article to be about making a potential productivity tool more accessible. To some extent, that will still be true. However, after I graduated, I noticed some recurring patterns in the way number games are played in every institution (go watch…
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At UC Irvine, I specialized in Intelligent Systems. Which is rather strange because I don’t believe there’s much consensus, even among those with the specialization, about how we should define intelligence. We do touch on the ambiguity of it. We go through the classic thought experiments that probe at consciousness, intelligence, originality, subjectivity, and sentience: John Searle’s Chinese…