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Consciousness is a consensus mechanism

Consciousness is also mansplainer’s catnip. So I am surprised that the phrase — consciousness is a consensus mechanism — does not appear…

Apr 13

Consciousness is a consensus mechanism

Apr 13

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One AI Tutor Per Child: Personalized learning is finally here

Update (Nov 1, 2024): What does it actually mean to personalize learning?

Mar 16, 2023

One AI Tutor Per Child: Personalized learning is finally here

Mar 16, 2023

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Understanding consciousness is more pressing than ever at the dawn of this AI age

I co-authored a book that claims consciousness has been “solved”. One of the greatest neuroscientists of our generation who is largely…

Sep 12, 2022

Understanding consciousness is more pressing than ever at the dawn of this AI age

Sep 12, 2022

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The greatest neuroscientist you’ve never heard of

(This is a review of Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind)

Jul 26, 2021

The greatest neuroscientist you’ve never heard of

Jul 26, 2021

Learning from Error is Not the Same as Learning from Experience

There are two modes to learning. We are quite familiar with the first. I’ve not seen the second discussed anywhere. Well, we do cover it in…

Dec 2

Learning from Error is Not the Same as Learning from Experience

Dec 2

Why Can’t 100-Billion-Parameter AI Models Create a Simple Puzzle?

I was trying to create a simple child-friendly puzzle for our math lab and discovered something very interesting. ChatGPT, Claude, and…

Nov 23

Why Can’t 100-Billion-Parameter AI Models Create a Simple Puzzle?

Nov 23

What Happens in Math Lab: Experiments with Math at Our Microschool

“To trick her mother into thinking she walked up 13 floors!”

Nov 20

What Happens in Math Lab: Experiments with Math at Our Microschool

Nov 20

How can we personalize learning?

The US Air Force had a serious problem on its hands in the late 1940s. Its planes were dropping from the skies at an alarming rate. Fingers…

Oct 30

How can we personalize learning?

Oct 30

How should we enable playful learning?

There’s an old wooden computer desk on our terrace at Comini. We had square holes cut out to put in two Ikea trays — I forget why. Those…

Feb 21

How should we enable playful learning?

Feb 21

Map Memorizers or Explorers: Hiring Well Needs Systems Thinking

I sent out this email nearly 15 years ago. This was after a rather disastrous 5 minute interview call where I quickly realized how out of…

Dec 14, 2023

Map Memorizers or Explorers: Hiring Well Needs Systems Thinking

Dec 14, 2023

Sai Gaddam

Sai Gaddam

Co-Founder @ Comini Learning ; Co-Author: Journey of the Mind (2022); A Billion Wicked Thoughts (2011); PhD, Computational Neuroscience

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