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Yes, there is some selection bias both ways ;-) To be fair, the reason you haven't seen anything better is because very few people are able to get traction in
by aaronwhite 15y ago
Yes, there is some selection bias both ways ;-)
To be fair, the reason you haven't seen anything better is because very few people are able to get traction in the face of deep, deep entrenchment. Have you watched Bret Victor's "Kill Math" video? Imagine if most technical courses had that kind of interactive material. But right now, they won't, because the barriers to entry are artificially high and incumbents aren't innovating.
- tptacek 15y agoThen why not just produce content like "Kill Math", rather than cloning textbooks? How is a 1:1 clone of an existing textbook --- Boundless texts are allegedly pitched to professors as clones, and branded "The Boundless Version of XXX" --- "innovation"?