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We created this interface so that curious people could explore and see how everything fit together. :)

vinchuco 11y ago
Interesting! It sort of reminds me of Paperscape [1] but more on the style of wikipedia since it invites you to edit it. Organizing knowledge is way harder than it seems. Instead of for topics, I would personally like to see this implemented for courses and their prerequisites (and perhaps the topics in each course) in order to keep track of your own learning or plan out what you would like to learn in the future. [1] http://paperscape.org/ http://paperscape.org/
- expii 11y ago
  Thanks for your comments! :) We have plans to build on top of this to create a way for you to learn an entire "course" of topics. That's our next stage of development. For now, we're happy to share the Topic Map as it is of independent interest. :) We hope that it might be helpful for people who are either already at a topic area within a course, or just like exploring maps.
voltagex_ 11y ago
Any idea why BlueCoat would categorise your site as "Suspicious"?
- poshenloh 11y ago
  This is a really good question! We don't think we're doing anything suspicious, and there aren't even any payment gateways anywhere on the site. To be honest, we weren't familiar with BlueCoat. Do you know what tends to make them rate a site as Suspicious? We're just trying to create a valuable free resource, through crowd-sourcing. :)
  - voltagex_ 11y ago
    https://sitereview.bluecoat.com/sitereview.jsp#/?search=expii.com https://sitereview.bluecoat.com/sitereview.jsp#/?search=expi...
- nitrogen 11y ago
  Some firewalls, virus scanners, etc. treat "unpopular" as synonymous with "suspicious". It's very annoying as a small software vendor.
  - voltagex_ 11y ago
    yeah, looks like they're analysing "reputation" for that particular category. Blech.
hobofan 11y ago
It looks really good! I think the possibility of multiple explanations has a great value beyond just providing a "better" explanation. They also allow a different mental model to be expressed, which in my personal experience was very helpful in learning new concepts in mathematics. In school, you are often taught a very strict mental model based directly on the books and then hammered with very similar examples hoping you will understand it after the n-th one. But what lead the concepts to "click" in my head were often somewhat different mental models (which I think are different for each person). That initial mental model can then be more refined and adjusted to be more in line with the textbook one. I'd rather read 10 explanations that are a bit different and the understanding with 10 examples than to read 1 and hammer that in with 100 examples.

Interesting! It sort of reminds me of Paperscape [1] but more on the style of wikipedia since it invites you to edit it. Organizing knowledge is way harder than it seems. Instead of for topics, I would personally like to see this implemented for courses and their prerequisites (and perhaps the topics in each course) in order to keep track of your own learning or plan out what you would like to learn in the future. [1] http://paperscape.org/ http://paperscape.org/

expii 11y ago
Thanks for your comments! :) We have plans to build on top of this to create a way for you to learn an entire "course" of topics. That's our next stage of development. For now, we're happy to share the Topic Map as it is of independent interest. :) We hope that it might be helpful for people who are either already at a topic area within a course, or just like exploring maps.

voltagex_ 11y ago

Any idea why BlueCoat would categorise your site as "Suspicious"?

poshenloh 11y ago
This is a really good question! We don't think we're doing anything suspicious, and there aren't even any payment gateways anywhere on the site. To be honest, we weren't familiar with BlueCoat. Do you know what tends to make them rate a site as Suspicious? We're just trying to create a valuable free resource, through crowd-sourcing. :)
- voltagex_ 11y ago
  https://sitereview.bluecoat.com/sitereview.jsp#/?search=expii.com https://sitereview.bluecoat.com/sitereview.jsp#/?search=expi...
nitrogen 11y ago
Some firewalls, virus scanners, etc. treat "unpopular" as synonymous with "suspicious". It's very annoying as a small software vendor.
- voltagex_ 11y ago
  yeah, looks like they're analysing "reputation" for that particular category. Blech.

hobofan 11y ago

It looks really good! I think the possibility of multiple explanations has a great value beyond just providing a "better" explanation. They also allow a different mental model to be expressed, which in my personal experience was very helpful in learning new concepts in mathematics. In school, you are often taught a very strict mental model based directly on the books and then hammered with very similar examples hoping you will understand it after the n-th one. But what lead the concepts to "click" in my head were often somewhat different mental models (which I think are different for each person). That initial mental model can then be more refined and adjusted to be more in line with the textbook one. I'd rather read 10 explanations that are a bit different and the understanding with 10 examples than to read 1 and hammer that in with 100 examples.