Son is trying to do optics for the Science Olympiad, but he hasn't taken...

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Son is trying to do optics for the Science Olympiad, but he hasn't taken Algebra, let alone trig. So we ask the bot to write a laser & mirrors game and the crucial part is based on rotation matrices. Here is a good video... but that isn't what is most interesting....

youtube.com/watch?v=Ta8cKqltPf

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When I was learning math, you got math text books that generally did a poor job of explaining anything. I would consult 3, 4, 5 different algebra textbooks for different ways to explain things before it would really sink in.

Now everyone can get high quality lectures on every easy, medium and advanced problem. Getting ahead in society because you know math is going to be so much harder.

When I was in econ, I was going to revolutionize the world with translog production functions (applied to regular stuff), but neither my math nor programming skills were up to the task. On holiday I had the bot write a game with translog functions and it was trivial for it.

Not sure what the kids will have to do to be noteworthy, employable knowledge workers, something spectacular I guess.