Thanks -- audio recorded by the poet is linked to from this one:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/55238/...

In light of the LLM break throughs in the last couple of years, I've been returning his speculative essay about the source of symbolic thought every few months: https://nautil.us/the-kekul-problem-236574/

Since arikfr is on this thread – thank you so much for Redash. Our internal instance is at query ID 8500+ and everyone on the team relies on it for querying and alerting. Can't wait to see what happens with the resources to take on some of your more ambitious ideas!

Athos gear (https://www.liveathos.com/) is able to do live form feedback.

Our site (brilliant.org) is designed for your use-case, among others.

I use Brilliant for the same reason.

I found Khan to have too many endless lists of equasions, while Brilliant is much better at building intuition.

Yep, brilliant.org + the first book from minireference.com are what OP needs.

I found that the community on brilliant.org can be quite toxic. I was a member for awhile, but quit due to the people on the site.

It gives me great pain to hear this.

Please do email me silas [at] brilliant.org, so I can figure out which failure mode you hit and evaluate if it has improved at all since you quit.

In addition, as others have noted, our courses have no community aspect to them at all.

I’m using brilliant, but just the courses, not any of the community parts. What was the failure mode?

I think the final thing was on the daily challenges; I always tried to solve them before looking at the answers even If I don't know the "proper" math to do so. I had posted my (correct) solution that I got to by writing a program to work it out; and I got some replies saying I was an idiot for not doing in the proper (math) way.

Ah, that type. Thanks for the heads-up.

This has been known for sometime, and is the reason we’ve built brilliant.org the way we have.

I’m sorry for the self-promotion, but it is extremely relevant in this case.

Not sure why this is being downvoted, it is at least a top two explanation for this phenomenon.

Because it comes off as snarky and provides little value I would guess.

I would say that due to jQuery's explosion, framework writers went from geeky technical people to being looked at as heroes. Back in 2007 there was actually a big javascript framework war between jQuery and MooTools. Technical blogs left and right on why jquery is bad, or why mootools ecosystem sucks. It was weird to behold. I don't think I have seen in any other community such rivalry. Even later, when angular vs react vs ember became a thing, people had overly heated arguments about them. That's so odd. In the non-js world, people usually welcome the new approaches provided by new frameworks or question the usefulness of yet another new framework - and it stops there. I suppose framework writers are not rockstars in those communities :)

We (Brilliant) do have an introductory course on quantum mechanics as well. It goes into more of the phenomena (like spin, photons, etc.) than this computing course that mostly focuses on information. Let us know what you think: https://brilliant.org/courses/quantum-objects/

If Brilliant isn't your cup of tea – check out mcintyre's spin-first treatment. Generally speaking avoid any textbooks with cats on the cover (ie. Griffith's is popular but only so-so IMO). That being said, we went with a cat on our course ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Hi – it has been possible to delete your Brilliant account for several years. You can do so here: https://brilliant.org/account/social/connections/

If you're excited to actually do some problems by the end of the video, we just released our diff. eq. problem solving course: https://brilliant.org/courses/differential-equations/

Thank you. I have added both of these links to learn-awesome's calculus page: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn-awesome/blob/master/c...

Neat!

We have in the past! And we'd love to in the future. However, Grant doesn't need sponsors any longer since his Patreon is healthy, which is awesome.

They actually have sponsored 3b1b in the past.

3Blue1Brown went sponsor-free recently:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/19586800

Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17639322