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pjama··on Ask HN: Idea Sunday
Take a look at a recent project of mine, which begins to implement this idea. The approach uses Wikipedia to help find 'related' and 'prerequisite' concepts for generating a curriculum.

I wrote a quick article about it, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7511837 https://medium.com/p/b45429ef49e4

...And the supporting code: https://github.com/pjama/wikigraph

pjama··on Wikipedia to Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA
Couldn't they just redirect traffic coming from the US? Leave it accessible to the rest of the world!
pjama··on DARPA's AlphaDog robotic pack mule is ready for battle (and awesome)
Does anyone else have an uncontrollable urge to jump on that thing and ride it around? I suppose it would be dangerous, but this could spawn a new breed of bull-riding scientist-cowboys.
pjama··on Larry Page On Google+: Over 10 Million Users, 1 Billion Items Shared
10 / 750 equal to 1.3%

Am I missing something?

pjama··on Astronomy Picture of the Day (timelapse with Earth rotating)
Read about [Adaptive Optics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_optics) -- The telescope watches the laser beam and corrects for atmospheric distortions.