1/29/23 Audiobooks
My first experience with an audiobook was in elementary school. I had been labeled EI–Emotionally Impaired–in Third Grade. This was, according to th...
Month: January 2023
Coloring Vertices
The other day, I came across this problem on Twitter: How many distinct ways are there to color the vertices of a cube, such that exactly four are one color and...
Star Trek: The Last Bigotry
Last night I had a dream about a new Star Trek show under development. This morning, I was thinking about why people are bigoted against transgender people. Wit...
1/8/23: Platonic limerence
The first time I was exposed to the word “limerence”, some decades ago, it didn’t really register. It felt like a fancy, dismissive word for &...
InferKit Test 1: Medusa
Note: I seeded InferKit with the first sentence and let it generate text until it ended on the end of a sentence. So everything after the first sentence was AI-...
On Comorbidity
Dyscalculia is highly comorbid* with Autism. Hypercalculia is highly comorbid with Autism. Dyslexia is highly comorbid with Autism. Hyperlexia is highly comorbi...
1/4/22: Hyperlexia
I recently learned the word “hyperlexia”, which is “when a child starts reading early and surprisingly beyond their expected ability.” T...
On Cognitive Load Theory and Story Problems
I’m currently reading “Sweller’s Cognitive Load Theory in Action” by Oliver Lovell, specifically the section on reducing extraneous load...