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New on JustinMath.com - How/Why To Become the Smart Kid; Smart-Person Failure Mode; Loss of Interest Can Sometimes Be Traced Back to Lack of Foundations
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The Most Common Failure Mode of Stereotypically Smart People
~300 words • If you don't really understand what you're automating/generalizing, you're doomed to fail. Investigate before you automate. Become wise, then generalize. How? By doing the thing manually. Live and breathe the concrete examples until you feel them in your bones. Loss of Interest Can Sometimes Be Traced Back to Lack of Foundations ~100 words And a new podcast: Knowledge Graph Engineering: Mental Models & War Stories - Math Academy Podcast #4, Part 2
What we covered:
– Building a knowledge graph is like city planning & road construction. Too many prerequisites leading into a single topic creates a cognitive traffic jam.
– Elegantly rewiring a live knowledge graph: the evolution of our tooling and automatic validations. How to avoid staging servers & migrations and NOT have it blow up in your face.
– UI work takes time and adds complexity, so we spend it on the customer. Internal tools are almost entirely command-line; clickable buttons are for customers.
– Justin's transition from research coding to real-time systems. He started with mathy, notebook-driven quant code and had to learn production engineering the hard way. Once he did, it was a massive level-up.
– Alex's plan for dealing with "content papercuts" - small issues that pile up. Inspired by Amazon’s "papercuts team."
– Our upcoming differential equations course, the last course in the core undergrad engineering math sequence.
Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Building a production-grade knowledge graph is like city planning and road construction
00:07:26 - Elegantly rewiring a live knowledge graph: the evolution of our tooling and automatic validations
00:24:47 - Justin's transition from research coding to real-time systems
00:44:51 - Alex's plan for dealing with "content papercuts" - small issues that pile up
00:58:02 - Our upcoming differential equations course
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Justin Skycak
Chief Quant, Director of Analytics at Math Academy. Posts about learning, upskilling, math education, Math Academy, and more generally, stages 2-3 of Bloom's talent development process in hierarchical skill domains.
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