Math Workshop, Certificates

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Math Workshop

Are you tried of learning on Zoom in isolation behind the screen, that you are invisible to the instructor and your fellow participants?

Moreover, you can’t even be 100% sure if your instructor is not an AI avatar these days!

Is there an alternative? Can we recreate an interactive learning experience in small groups in the same space, for people from different parts of the world? Can we do that for a difficult but important topic like deep learning math?

This week we tried exactly that. We ran a workshop to help beginners to open the blackbox of deep learning math.

Before the workshop, this is how my students and I were busy preparing our virtual classroom in Gather.town.

In Colorado, we are most proud of our mountains. Of course, we want to set up our classroom on the rooftop with snowcapped mountains in the backdrop.

We offered two sessions and both are sold out quickly!

How did the sessions go?

Instead of hearing from me, you can hear from one of the participants:

Critics may say: “You can’t scale this!”

I say: “Why do we need to scale? Why don’t we go deeper?”

Certificates

When people sent me photos of their completed AI by Hand math workbooks, I always took time to make a certificate and mail it to them.

One time I had a long backlog, I finally got some free time and mailed a big batch of certificates. The white envelops go internationally. The brown envelops go to US destinations.

Sadly, some of the white envelops were returned to me after taking 4 weeks going around the globe. Mailing internationally is not easy.

Again, does this scale?

Of course not. Haha!

But since they took time to use their hands to write and sketch, I want to return the gesture by also using my hands to sign a certificate, put it into an envelop, and put stamps.

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