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freeCodeCamp.org's open-source codebase and curriculum. Learn math, programming, and computer science for free.
AI Tool: Zhangxuefeng.skill for Cognitive Planning
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Lathe: Learn New Domains with LLMs
Unveiling Lathe: Exploring New Territories with LLMs Lathe is a pioneering tool within the realm of language models, designed to facilitate the exploration of n…
AI-Powered Educational Resource: TapXWorld/ChinaTextbook
所有小初高、大学PDF教材。
AI-Powered Physics Encyclopedia with WebGL Animations
AI Powered Physics Encyclopedia with WebGL Animations Revolutionizing Physics Education with AI and WebGL The integration of AI and WebGL animations in a physic…
Build Your Own Tech: Learn Programming with CodeCrafters
Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch.
Master English Faster with This AI-Powered Guide
An advanced guide to learn English which might benefit you a lot 🎉 . 离谱的英语学习指南/英语学习教程/英语学习/学英语
Coder Words: Offline-First PWA Word Puzzle for Programmers
Discover the Offline First PWA Word Puzzle for Programmers: Coder Words In the ever evolving landscape of web technologies, Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) have gai…
Learn Music Theory with AI: Scales, Chords, and Combinations
Discover Music Theory with AI Assistance: Mastering Scales, Chords, and Combinations Exploring music theory with contemporary tools can be an exciting way to en…
DDS Vibe Academy: 31 Free AI Coding Masterclasses by AI Agents
Unlock AI Coding Skills with DDS Vibe Academy's 31 Free Masterclasses DDS Vibe Academy invites aspiring coders to delve into the world of AI through its compreh…
GPUBook.io: Revolutionizing AI Tools with GPU Power
GPUBook.io: Transforming AI Tools with GPU Technology In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence (AI), computational power is paramount. GPUBook.i…
AI Graduates in 2026: Avoiding AI in Commencement Speeches
It's tough to get graduating students excited about a future shaped by artificial intelligence.
Microsoft AI Agents for Beginners: 12 Lessons to Start Building
12 Lessons to Get Started Building AI Agents
AI-Powered Learning Platform Eduwass Launches
Eduwass: Revolutionizing Education with AI Powered Learning Education technology continues to evolve, and the latest innovation comes from Eduwass. This AI powe…
Instructure Reaches Deal with Hackers After Two Breaches
The maker of the Canvas school software said it "reached an agreement" with the hackers, but provided no guarantees that the hackers would not release the data or keep their word.
Create Flashcards Easily with Space CLI
Create Flashcards Easily with Space CLI: A Streamlined Study Tool The Space Command Line Interface (CLI) offers a powerful, efficient, and user friendly way to …
Free C Programming Course: C Systems Lab
Unlock Your Programming Potential with a Free C Programming Course Elevate your programming skills with a comprehensive and accessible C Systems Lab course. Thi…
Master Modern Programming with Easy Vibe: Step-by-Step Guide
💻 vibe coding 2026 | Your first modern programming course for beginners to master step by step.
Building Smart Agents: Comprehensive AI Tutorial
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RISC-V Emulator Runs DOOM: A Hacker News Showcase
RISC V Emulator Runs DOOM: A Unique Integration in Action In an impressive feat showcased on Hacker News, the RISC V emulator has been successfully employed to …
Mastering Software Engineering: Top GitHub Study Plan
A complete computer science study plan to become a software engineer.
Join AI Saturdays: Learn Prompt Engineering for Free
Hey hey Running a small virtual group called AI Saturdays where we pick one practical AI skill per week and actually learn it together. This week: Prompt Engineering. Free, casual, no experience needed. [RSVP Link](https://www.meetup.com/chillnskill/events/314498981)
TikTok Launches Campus Hub for College Students
The new hub features dedicated college group chats and personalized feeds designed to help students stay connected with their campus communities, even while they’re away for the summer.
Learn Rust, SQLite, or Godot with Coding-Flashcards AI Tool
Master Rust, SQLite, or Godot with the AI Powered Coding Flashcards Introducing an innovative approach to learning programming languages and development tools: …
Open-Source Computer Science Curriculum by ForrestKnight
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Learn AI by Doing: Mastering AI with Promptgpt.ai
Most people aren’t going to learn AI by reading about it. They’re going to learn by using it. The problem is Ai can be Sycophantic and will make you think you know what you are doing when you don’t… It’s less about prompts and more about AI literacy and a place to experiment, try things, and understand how AI actually works in practice. A learning layer. No theory overload. No overcomplication. Just reps. The earlier someone builds that intuition, the faster everything else clicks. Promptgpt.ai helped me unlearn some bad habits. Curious what others are doing? I admittedly did not know what good looked like before this it felt a bit remedial, but I have been sooo much more effective. I catch hallucinations and I know the difference between a quality response and one that’s the illusion of a quality response. By default I prompt better, but teaching prompting without understanding the systems is a fools errand.
Chinese Learning App Teaches Through Sentence Patterns
Mastering Chinese with Sentence Pattern Apps In the realm of language learning, mastering sentence patterns is a crucial aspect, especially for complex language…
Scholly Founder Sues Sallie Mae Over Termination, Data Claims
Chris Gray is suing his startup’s acquirer, Sallie Mae, for wrongful termination and alleging it's selling student data through a subsidiary. Sallie Mae denies the allegations and vows to fight.
Free Programming Books: Top Picks from GitHub Trends
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Stanford Freshmen Inspired by AI Book to Rule the World
Can a book like this actually change anything? Or does the spotlight, as it always seems to, send more students racing to the place?
AI-Powered Startup Equity Adventure Game Launched
AI Powered Startup Equity Adventure Game Launched In an exciting development in the world of entrepreneurship and gaming, a new AI powered startup equity advent…
AI-Powered Thermodynamics Learning Tool Launched
Revolutionizing Learning with an AI Powered Thermodynamics Tool Introduction In an era where technology upholds education access and progress, the [our company]…
Free Engineering Thermodynamics Textbook Available
Free Engineering Thermodynamics Textbook Available Engineering thermodynamics is a cornerstone subject for students and professionals in fields like mechanical,…
Unix Magic Poster: Annotated Guide for AI Enthusiasts
Unix Magic Poster: Annotated Guide for AI Enthusiasts The Unix Magic Poster is an invaluable resource for AI enthusiasts, offering a comprehensive and annotated…
Unleash AI-Driven Learning with TutorAI
Unleash AI-driven, personalized, and interactive learning for all.
AI-Powered Roguelike Game: Paper Millionaire
AI Powered Roguelike Game: Paper Millionaire – Revolutionizing Gameplay AI Powered Roguelike Game: Paper Millionaire is a groundbreaking new title that combines…
AI and Dune: The Debate on Thinking and AI Assistance
The Globe and Mail's editorial board ran a piece in March titled "AI can be a crutch, or a springboard." To illustrate the crutch half, they offered this: someone asked AI to explain a passage from Dune that warns against delegating thinking to machines. Instead of reading the book. That anecdote is doing more work than the studies the editorial cites. But the studies are real. Researchers at MIT published a paper in June 2025 titled "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" (Kosmyna et al., arXiv 2506.08872). The study tracked brain activity across three groups: people writing with ChatGPT, people using search engines, and people working unaided. The LLM group showed the weakest neural connectivity. Over four months, "LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels." The most striking finding: LLM users struggled to accurately quote their own work. They couldn't recall what they had just written. The Globe cites this and similar research to make a point about dependency. The implicit argument: hand enough of your thinking to a machine and you stop doing it yourself. That finding is probably accurate for the way most people use these tools. The question is whether that's the only way they can be used. The Globe's own title contains the counter-argument. Crutch or springboard. They wrote both words. They just didn't develop the second one. Ethan Mollick, a professor at Wharton who has been writing about AI use since the tools became widely available, argued in 2023 that the real challenge AI poses to education isn't that students will stop thinking, it's that the old structures assumed thinking was hard enough to enforce. ("The Homework Apocalypse," [oneusefulthing.org](http://oneusefulthing.org), July 2023.) When AI can do the surface-level cognitive work, the only tasks left worth assigning are the ones that require actual judgment. The tool, in that framing, doesn't reduce the demand for thinking. It raises the floor under it. Nate B. Jones, who writes and consults on what it actually takes to work well with AI, has made a sharper version of this argument. His position: using AI effectively requires more cognitive skill, not less. Specifically, it requires the ability to translate ambiguous intent into a precise, edge-case-aware specification that an AI can execute correctly. It requires detecting errors in output that is fluent and confident-sounding but wrong. It requires recognizing when an AI has drifted from your intent, or is confirming a premise it should be challenging. These are not passive skills. They are harder versions of the same thinking the MIT study found LLM users weren't doing. The difference between the group that lost neural connectivity and the group that doesn't isn't the tool. It's what they decided to do with it. Here's my own evidence. In the past year I built a working web application. Python backend. JavaScript frontend. Deployed on two hosting platforms. Payment processing. User authentication. A full data model. I do not know how to code. Every product decision was mine. Every architectural call. Every tradeoff judgment. I defined what the system needed to do, why, and what done looked like. I reviewed every significant change before it was accepted. When something broke, I identified where the breakdown was and directed the fix. The implementation was handled by AI. The thinking was mine. This mode (call it AI-directed building) is the opposite of the Dune reader. The quality of what gets produced is entirely a function of how clearly you can think, how precisely you can specify, and how critically you can evaluate what comes back. There is no shortcut in that. A vague brief to an AI doesn't produce a confused output. It produces a confident, fluent, wrong one. The discipline that prevents that is yours to supply. Non-coders building functional software with AI is common enough now that it isn't a story. What's less visible is the specificity of judgment underneath the ones that actually work. The practices that force more thinking rather than less are not complicated, but they require a decision to use the tool differently. When I've formed a position on something, I give the AI full context and ask it to make the strongest possible case against me. Ask for the hardest opposing argument it can construct. Then I read it. Sometimes it changes nothing. Sometimes it surfaces something I had dismissed without fully examining. The AI doesn't form my view. It stress-tests one I've already formed. When I'm uncertain between options, I don't ask which is better. I ask: here are two approaches, here is my constraint, now what does each cost me, and what does each require me to give up? I make the call. The AI laid out the shape of the decision. The judgment was mine. The uncomfortable part of thinking is still yours in this mode. The tool makes the work more rigorous, not easier. The MIT researchers and the Globe editorial are almost certainly right about the majority of current use. Passive use produces passive outcomes. That's not a controversial claim. The crutch half and the springboard half use the same interface. The difference is whether the person in front of it decided to think. What are you doing with it that forces more thinking rather than less? Are you using it to skip a step, or to take a harder one? Genuinely asking.
Stanford Freshmen Inspired by AI Book to Rule the World
Can a book like this actually change anything? Or does the spotlight, as it always seems to, send more students racing to the place?
Time Pin: Geo Guessr Meets History in AI Game
Time Pin: Geo Guessr Meets History in AI Driven Game Discover the thrill of exploring history and geography with Time Pin, a groundbreaking AI game that combine…
AI-Powered Thermodynamics Learning Tool Launched
AI Powered Thermodynamics Learning Tool Launched Revolutionizing the way students and professionals learn about thermodynamics, a groundbreaking AI Powered Ther…
Free Engineering Thermodynamics Textbook Released
Free Engineering Thermodynamics Textbook Released: A Comprehensive Guide Introduction The release of a free engineering thermodynamics textbook is a significant…
Unix Magic Poster: Annotated Guide for AI Tools
Unix Magic Poster: Annotated Guide for AI Tools Introduction In the rapidly evolving world of technology, AI tools have become indispensable for automating task…