Author

Tom Roth

@rothza

articles: 10
total claps: 45
top claps: 25
avg read: 3.6 min
paywalled: 10
active: 2023-12-27 → 2026-05-26

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#education ·5 #psychology ·3 #cognition ·3 #ai ·2 #padel ·1 #society ·1 #climate-change ·1 #malaysia ·1 #gpt-4 ·1 #chatgpt-prompting ·1

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Scripting maths worked examples using GPT4: for the consciously incompetent who need a lot of…

GPT4 is useful for repetitive tasks — here’s how I taught it to make maths practice examples with worked answers, short form as MCQ on…

Apr 17, 2024 · 4 min read · 25 claps paywalled #gpt-4 #chatgpt-prompting #education

Scripting maths worked examples using GPT4: for the consciously incompetent who need a lot of…

LIF SPT

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Malaysian rugby parents — a demographic iceberg

What makes scholarly boys run the risks they do to win a game of rugby?

Sep 19, 2024 · 5 min read · 9 claps paywalled #rugby #demographics #asia

Malaysian rugby parents — a demographic iceberg

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Biden’s TSMC build needs the Science Aunties and Uncles

Where do the knowledge assets of TSMC actually reside? With good reason, Biden is trying to condense a generation of learning into a couple…

Dec 27, 2023 · 5 min read · 8 claps paywalled #tsmc #education #politics

Biden’s TSMC build needs the Science Aunties and Uncles

HUM

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The virtuous memory of missiles and Teslas

Simonides the ancient Greek poet started a trend: he helped locate corpses in a destroyed building by using their poses and postures to…

Feb 11, 2024 · 6 min read · 3 claps paywalled #tesla #memory-improvement #psychology

The virtuous memory of missiles and Teslas

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A love of sawdust and a tolerance for code: a beneficial use case for AI

This workshop really needs a robot.

May 10, 2024 · 4 min read · 0 claps paywalled #ai #education #mechanical-engineering

A love of sawdust and a tolerance for code: a beneficial use case for AI

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Padel Burnout Syndrome

Apparently, it is the fastest-growing sport in the world, and has grown exponentially over the last few years: 130 countries, 19 000…

Jun 05, 2025 · 3 min read · 0 claps paywalled #padel #society #psychology

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Starlink/Neuralink/TESLA telemetry

Stacked like that, it actually makes sense. It’s a pool of data with unknown depths. SpaceX might crash after December 2026 when the shares…

May 26, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps paywalled #spacex #psychology #business

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Proof of Work — LinkedIn is my blockchain

Freshening up my résumé drew me into a round of short courses. This time when I dipped my toes in the pool it looked a lot deeper than two…

Jan 16, 2025 · 2 min read · 0 claps paywalled #blockchain #linkedin #online-education

AI TCH

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“Training” my own eidetic research assistant: NotebookLM

You can choose up to 50 sources from NotebookLM, a free and useful gadget from Google. I have two uses for it:

Oct 01, 2024 · 2 min read · 0 claps paywalled #ai #research #computers

“Training” my own eidetic research assistant: NotebookLM

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Cheetahs and other South African Election Allegories, feat. The Don.

We’ve got a long weekend…so here’s me sitting at home and writing jokes: A Capetonian, a communist, and a war veteran are on their way to…

May 31, 2024 · 2 min read · 0 claps paywalled