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Glad to hear the team found a successful exit. Adam bought the tailwindlabs.com domain from me when they started out and he seemed genuinely cool. Hope they keep building tools so many people enjoy using.

This course was wonderful when I took it a few years ago. Just heard the next offering starts in April, so I'm curious to see how it's evolved. From the creators:

Learning Creative Learning (LCL) is a free course and open community for educators and for anyone who cares about learning and creativity.

Over six weeks, you'll explore the ideas behind the creative learning educational approach, work on projects you actually care about, and connect with people from around the world who share your curiosity.

It's part course, part community, part creative playground.

LCL is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT, the research team behind Scratch and Octostudio, the creative coding platforms used by millions of young learners worldwide.

It is also made possible by a global network of volunteer facilitators who help organize, translate, and support the community in multiple languages.

Fun read. Haha I also love the idea of being a mathematical braid. Arrival is a great film, but my favorite fictional take on this kind of thinking is still Slaughterhouse-Five.

Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

This is the first time I've "seen" Shinjuku Station. What a beautiful introduction. I first read about the station in Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage and always wondered what it looked like. Neat.

And here I was feeling cheeky.

In all seriousness, I just learned about Sandstorm and think it could be a great fit for a local co-op I’m building. It’s a shame about the startup, but I hope we’ll get a chance to support the open collective.

Thanks! And big thanks to martinRenou1 for his work on ipycanvas!! He did most of the heavy lifting.

JupyterLite is great! I use it heavily with my middle school math students — wonderful to have NumPy, matplotlib, and friends available without needing to set up accounts. I created a package called jupy5 that provides Turtle graphics and a p5.js-inspired sketchbook for JupyterLite as well.

Agreed except for the dig at Mark Jacobson. He was my undergrad and grad advisor, and I only knew him to be driven by data and a deep concern for the welfare of people and the planet. There are bad scientists out there but Mark isn't one of them. lol I recall him declining my request to put something about Al Gore in our common area because he didn't want to politicize the space.