Crypto 101 is an introductory course on cryptography, freely available for programmers of all ages and skill levels.

By contrast, OpenAI’s o3 reasoning model was far more willing to flatly reject this sort of destructive flattery (“The user claims psychic powers and certainty about Newton’s prophecy,” read one of its internal thoughts about the request. “I’ll acknowledge their viewpoint, but also maintain skepticism.”)

Some of the best teachers I’ve had were actually fairly dis-agreeable. That’s not to say they were unkind. But they had standards — a kind of intellectual taste that led them to make clearly expressed judgement calls about what was a good question and what wasn’t, what was a good research path and what wasn’t.

Python’s well-known issue with default arguments can be succinctly and memorably explained by saying “It’s a default VALUE, not a default EXPRESSION.”

A story about how a gifted child was not supported with teaching appropriate to his skills, and how difficult and detrimental that is.

All modern computers(laptops, phones, pc master race rgb monsters, etc) have somewhat similar components: Processor, Memory, Video Card, Disk and USB controller, WiFi card etc. Some of them are in one single chip and you cant even see them anymore, but they are there. For example there are chips that have Processor and Video Card together. The term for processor is actually CPU - Central processing unit, but we called it processors when we were kids and it kind of make sense, since it processes stuff.