New on JustinMath.com - Protect The Habit; Never Come Up Empty-Handed; Models Are Just Data Interpolators


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Here are 3 new posts from the past month:

Protect The Habit
2025 May, ~150 words • When the time comes to get back into the swing of things, it's a lot easier to speed up a slow wagon that you're on, than to get back on a wagon that you've completely fallen off of.
Never Come Up Empty-Handed
2025 May, ~250 words • If you’ve done honest work, you should be able to back it up.
Models Are Just Data Interpolators
2025 Apr, ~250 words • Asking a model to extrapolate is like asking a pig to fly.

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Justin

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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