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China has started a grand experiment in AI education. It could reshape how the world learns.
In recent years, the country has rushed to pursue “intelligent education.” Now its billion-dollar ed-tech companies are planning to export their vision overseas.
The musician and comedian Martin Mull has observed that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture”. In a similar way, there's an inherent inadequacy in writing about tools for thought. To the extent that such a tool succeeds, it expands your thinking beyond what can be achieved using existing tools, including writing. The more transformative the tool, the larger the gap that is opened. Conversely, the larger the gap, the more difficult the new tool is to evoke in writing. But what writing can do, and the reason we wrote this essay, is act as a bootstrap. It's a way of identifying points of leverage that may help develop new tools for thought. So let's get on with it.
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We highly encourage people who already know these topic areas to take the provided material and pursue paid and unpaid teaching opportunities.
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MI-LXC : Mini-Internet using LXC
MI-LXC uses LXC to simulate a small-scale internet-like environment. I use this environment for (infosec) practical work (intrusion, firewall, IDS, etc.). The small memory footprint of LXC combined with differential images allows to run it on modest hardware.
It is based on the infrastructure-as-code principle: these scripts programmatically generate the target environment.
Example practical work using this environment (in french) :
Intrusion scenario
Firewall
IDS
SubMerger - SRT Subtitles Merger
Lua script to merge two input subtitles in SRT format in a new SRT file.
This tool is meant to help people that are learning new languages and would need to have on screen the two translations at the same time.