Frank Hecker

Resident of Howard County, Maryland, sales engineer, and occasional blogger. Trying to unite civility and truth in a few infrequent posts.

(Re)creating a techno-nationalist elite

The technologists who would rule The much-heralded AI revolution is but the latest in a series of technological revolutions originating from Silicon Valley: the integrated circuit and the personal computer, the Internet and the World Wide Web, smartphones and streaming video, search engines, online commerce, and social networks. These revolutions have made many of their creators immensely wealthy and (as has often been the case with the newly wealthy) eager to flex their muscles and acquire social and political power to match their economic power. ...

Math Academy, update 4: I completed Calculus I

I continue my Math Academy journey by trying to fill in holes in my knowledge of calculus

Math Academy, update 3: I completed Linear Algebra

I report on my Math Academy progress as I complete my fourth class and finally know what an eigenvector is

On Joe Liemandt on Alpha School

My take on Joe Liemandt’s intervew on Alpha School, 2 Hour Learning, TimeBack, Incept, and scaling to a billion students

Math Academy, update 2: I completed Mathematics for Machine Learning

I report on my Math Academy progress as I complete my third class

Learning how to teleport quantum states with PhysicsGraph

PhysicsGraph proposes to do for physics what Math Academy is doing for mathematics

Math Academy, update 1: I completed Mathematical Foundations III

I report on my Math Academy progress as I complete my second class

Math Academy, part 11: Final thoughts

I pronounce my final verdict on Math Academy

Math Academy, part 10: Customer feedback (pedagogical)

I express my opinions on the pedagogical aspects of Math Academy.

Math Academy, part 9: Customer feedback (non-pedagogic)

I express my opinions on the non-pedagogical aspects of Math Academy.