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June 15 - 19, 2026

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Software brain is changing the world, but most people still aren’t buying.

Matt Barnum’s piece for Chalkbeat in which Sal Khan unsuccessfully reflects on his latest education misfire, has opened the door for plenty of folks to take a swipe at Khan and his consistently bad ideas, but lordy, the man deserves all of it.

How to build through commenting and think through adopting an editor's eye...

A maxim I’ve oft repeated for our AI era is that if a task can be automated, then it will.

… is a class worth taking.

Much of the standard advice about AI and teaching is already outdated.

Reflections after a few months of vibe coding

What happened when I applied the TechFreedom risk lenses to my own setup?

1 skill, 23 commands, and curated anti-patterns for impeccable frontend design.

Transparent AI model recommendations scored across quality, cost, speed, privacy, sustainability, transparency and capability.

Eight studies on AI, learning, and cognition that you might want to add to your summer reading list.

Personal website of Gwern Branwen (writer, self-experimenter, and programmer): topics: psychology, statistics, technology, deep learning, anime. This index page is a categorized list of Gwern.net pages.

h/t Rebecca Fordon

899 likes, 84 comments. "Why LLM Wiki? 🧠 Future Of Knowledge For Agentic AI & Humans"

Example of linking where the wiki gets audited

187 likes, 14 comments. "9 Claude Skills I Can’t Live Without (steal them)"

The hyperlink rule won't solve everything in every context, but in areas where there is a degree of oversight links to a) specific *parts* of b) specific documents should be required. For stuff like this you should click the link and go to the page and line. Platforms that don't support that sort of deep linking should do so now, and make the tools for deep linking simple and omnipresent. We are using citation formats built for physical library collections of the 20th century. It's absolutely wild we refuse to evolve.

New research shows that offloading learning tasks to AI can improve - rather than erode - human thinking and learning

Create beautiful slides on the web using Claude's frontend skills - zarazhangrui/frontend-slides

By: Emily M. Bender and Decca Muldowney At a recent appointment, Emily’s physical therapist (who knows some about her research) said, “Before we get started,...

A pilot study analyzing college students’ writing with AI shows an interactive process, from brainstorming to editing the output produced by chatbots.

Many empirical studies throughout the social and biomedical sciences focus only on very narrow outcomes such as income, or a single specific diseas...

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed...

As universities across the U.S. seek to deal with protests, polarization, and the presidential election, many have focused on how to foster civil-discourse skills in students. As this tweet (below)…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming countless aspects of society, including possibly even who we are as persons. AI technologies may affect our flourishing for good or for ill. In this paper, we put forward principled considerations concerning flourishing and AI that are oriented towards ensuring AI technologies are conducive to human flourishing, rather than impeding it. The considerations are intended to help guide discussions around the development of, and engagement with, AI technologies so as to orient them towards the promotion of individual and societal flourishing. Five sets of considerations around flourishing and AI are discussed concerning: (i) the output provided by large language models; (ii) the specific AI product design; (iii) our engagement with those products; (iv) the effects this is having on human knowledge; and (v) the effects this is having on the self-realization of the human person. While not exhaustive, it is argued that each of these sets of considerations must be taken seriously if these technologies are to help promote, rather than impede, flourishing. We suggest that we should ultimately frame all of our thinking on AI technologies around flourishing.