Hey @shriramk I really enjoyed https://cacm.acm.org/research-highlights/a-grounded-conceptual-model-for-ownership-types-in-rust/ that's some phenomenal work!

For everyone else: Shriram and colleagues take a problem: Why don't people understand the borrow checker, and run it down from "how might they understand it now (and how can we find the problems they really experience), how can we teach it to them, and how can we evaluate that work?"

It's both a huge amount of work, and an really, really good illustration of solving problems which are both important and non-trivial.

#security #education #rust #pedagogy #teaching #usability

In the Tatiyavagga, the Buddha says:

Mendicants, in a poorly explained teaching and training, the donor should know moderation, ...

#Buddhism #Theravada #Dhamma #PaliCanon #suttas #teaching

Ending My First Philly School Year with a Dose of Cool!

https://johnsworldblog.wordpress.com/2026/06/07/ending-my-first-philly-school-year-with-a-dose-of-cool/

Victorian teachers sue over alleged unpaid superannuation

https://quokk.au/c/australia/p/966351/victorian-teachers-sue-over-alleged-unpaid-superannuation

In this week’s issue, I reflect on memory, judgment, programming education,.

Read the full issue : https://federicagazzelloni.substack.com/p/notes-on-data-and-learning-n22

#RStats #DataScience #ArtificialIntelligence #Programming #Education #Teaching #Learning #ComputationalThinking #Statistics #NotesOnDataAndLearning #AI #RProgramming

When I first came out as #bisexual, my mother said “no, you’re not.” She sat me down and explained that I wasn’t in trouble, but that I didn’t understand what I was saying.
“Bisexual is something grownups say when they need an excuse to have affairs.”
https://medium.com/prismnpen/im-a-teacher-what-i-learned-about-bisexuality-was-wrong-86f46893bc23

#LGBTQ #Teaching #Learning