impactpurchase.org
First round results – The impact purchase
https://impactpurchase.org/2015/04/10/first-round-results
What we’ll fund. Projections vs. evaluations. Paying for effort vs. paying for results. Implicit causal accounting vs. explicit causal accounting. The effect of purchasing a certificate. The first round of the 2015 impact purchase had eight submissions, including research, translation, party planning, mentoring, teaching and money to GiveDirectly. This round, we are buying certificates of impact for:. 50% of Ben Kuhn’s post, Does Donation Matching Work? What does this mean? Note that these prices should ...
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SPARC | Paul Christiano
https://paulfchristiano.com/sparc
Research in CS Theory. In 2012 I co-founded SPARC. A high school summer program designed to help train more thoughtful scientists and entrepreneurs. I’ve continued to teach and to help organize the program since then, along with a bunch of other awesome instructors. And with the support of CFAR. And our donors (in 2015: Dropbox and Cisco Systems). Blog at WordPress.com.
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SPARC for High-School Magic Players: thezvi
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SPARC for High-School Magic Players. Winning in Magic takes a lot: creativity, problem solving, and psychology, all of which also help winning in life. A relatively new summer program called SPARC ( http:/ sparc-camp.org/. To approach life in general with a winning mindset - it may even improve your Magic game. The application is at http:/ sparc-camp.org/apply/. Post a new comment. Anonymous comments are disabled in this journal. We will log you in after post. We will log you in after post.
impactpurchase.org
Blog – The impact purchase
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What we’ll fund. Projections vs. evaluations. Paying for effort vs. paying for results. Implicit causal accounting vs. explicit causal accounting. The effect of purchasing a certificate. Rounds 1 – 5. A summary of what has happened so far, our lessons, and our plans for the second half of the 2015 impact purchase. The story so far. We have finished 5 rounds of the impact purchase. The net transfers that have occurred so far:. We paid $200 for 17% of Ben Kuhn’s post on donation matching. We intend to take...
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Power Overwhelming | The blog of Evan Chen: Math, Arch Linux, and Life Musings | Page 2
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Newer posts →. 18099 Transcript: Bourgain’s Theorem. April 4, 2016. As part of the 18.099 Discrete Analysis reading group at MIT, I presented section 4.7 of Tao-Vu’s Additive Combinatorics. Textbook. Here were the notes I used for the second half of my presentation. We aim to prove the following result. Contains a proper arithmetic progression of length at least. For some absolute constant. Term’s inside the. Sign When we work with. This causes us to be stuck. So, we instead use the technology of. We com...
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SPARC - CFAR
http://rationality.org/sparc
Give CFAR training to a cause. Is a two-week summer program for extraordinary high school students, held each year, usually in August at UC Berkeley. See http:/ sparc-camp.org/. For the latest information about each year’s program. What is SPARC like? Perhaps most importantly, SPARC students are surrounded by a community of other highly talented students, junior counselors, and instructors. And, to make sure that we really do get the best participants possible, SPARC is completely free.
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About
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I’m Chelsea, and this is where I blog. I graduated from MIT in 2015 with a major in computer science (Course 6-3) and a minor in mathematics (Course 18). Nowadays, I am at MIT pursuing the M.Eng. Degree, with a concentration in theoretical computer science, doing research in programming languages and program analysis. Last summer, I was an intern on the infrastructure team at Khan Academy. And an instructor at SPARC. My old website is here. The blog of Chelsea Voss. Csvoss [at] mit [dot] edu.
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Ranting Mama: Program Ideas for 14-17 year old self-directed learners?
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Musings, Opinions and Rants on Parenting, Education and Life. Thursday, December 5. Program Ideas for 14-17 year old self-directed learners? Earlier this year, I wrote a post called My Current High School Independent Learning Crisis. Or every few months! That was April; this is November. SO, today I woke up realizing that:. Isn't it his job to rebel/leave; isn't that the way he will define himself. Yes, and "at some point". Right now, I'm a scaffolder. I see it as my job to understand (with h...Than I do...
