CurioPod: Open-Sourcing an AI tutor/partner for kids
I built my daughter an AI tutor that runs on our own infrastructure, uses our own API key, and stores every conversation in a database I control. Open-sourcing it today.…
education
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Firefly: A Safe AI Learning Companion for Kids
Over the past couple weeks, I built "Firefly": a walled-garden AI companion designed specifically for kids. Here's what it looks like in action:…
Programming in “Thonny”
We live in an age of abundance, in many respects. There are more ways to learn things than ever before. In my case, I was looking through options for my daughter to play around with. We previously…
On cultural literacy
… Or the lack therof Extract here from the foreword to “classic myths to read aloud” (highly recommend getting this to read with kids!)…
On the ails and aims and means of education
Surely a controversial take :-) (But I tend to agree)…
Programming is like writing
From a comment on Slashdot: My current theory is that programming is quite literally writing. The vast majority of programming is not conceptually difficult (contrary to what a lot of people would ha…