Kevin Lu
Learning
- Learning
- Academic fields
- Eclecticism
- Lifelong learning
- Hyperlearning (HL)
- Lewis J. Perelman, School’s Out: Hyperlearning, the New Technology, and the End of Education, William Morrow, 1992
- Edward D. Hess, Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change, Berrett-Koehler, 2020
- Ian Morrison, The Second Curve: Managing the Velocity of Change, Nicholas Brealey, 1996
- Charles Handy, The Second Curve: Thoughts on Reinventing Society, Random House, 2015
- M-learning or mobile learning
- Microlearning
- Nanolearning
- Educational technology
- Education 2.0 Conference
- Education 3.0
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)
- Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE)
- Learning environment
- JASON Project
- Instructional design
- Pedagogy
- Active learning
- Student-centered learning
- Flipped classroom
- Modes of persuasion
- Direct Instruction
- Instructional scaffolding
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
- Knowledge graph
- Tacit knowledge
- SECI model of knowledge dimensions
- Bloom’s taxonomy
- Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP)
14.1001 Electrical and Electronics Engineering: A program that prepares individuals to apply mathematical and scientific principles to the design, development, and operational evaluation of electrical and electronic systems and their components, including electrical power generation systems; and the analysis of problems such as superconductor, wave propagation, energy storage and retrieval, and reception and amplification.
14.0901 Computer Engineering, General: A program that generally prepares individuals to apply mathematical and scientific principles to the design, development, and operational evaluation of computer hardware and software systems and related equipment and facilities; and the analysis of specific problems of computer applications to various tasks.
- Inference
- Pygmalion effect
- Student syndrome
- Mentorship
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Coaching
- David A. Vaccari, “The Barbed Quatrefoil Is a 1500-Year-Old Symbol of Architectural Advance”
- Samuel Ullman 1840—1924, “Youth”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889—1951, Philosophical Investigations
- Carl Sagan 1934—1996, The Age of Exploration, November 9, 1994
- Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
- Richard Hamming 1915—1998, “You and Your Research”
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn, Chapter 30, pp. 209-215, 1997
- 1986-03-07 Bellcore Colloquium
- 1995-06-06 Naval Postgraduate School
- Randy Pausch 1960—2008 and Jeffrey Zaslow 1958—2012, The Last Lecture, 2008
- Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, September 18, 2007
- Alphonse Daudet 1840—1897, The Last Lesson
- Steve Jobs 1955—2011, Steve Jobs Archive
- Patrick Henry Winston 1943—2019, How to Speak, IAP 2018
Astronomy
- Carlos Farias
- Science communication
- StarTalk by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
1942—2018
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
- Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)
- Astrobiology
- Astronomy
- Big Bang
- Carrington Event
- Causal sets
- Comet
- Cosmic microwave background
- Dark matter
- Ephemeris
- Ephemeris time (ET)
- Faster-than-light (FTL)
- Gravitational wave
- Hubble–Lemaître law
- Julian day
- Laniakea Supercluster
- Mars landing
- Milky Way
- Moon landing
- Period-luminosity relation 1908 by Henrietta Swan Leavitt 1868—1921
- Planck units
- Plasma (physics)
- Quantum gravity
- Saros
- Solar cycle
- String theory
- Van Allen radiation belt
- White hole
- Wormhole
Source: An interactive flight through millions of galaxies by Fiske Planetarium, University of Colorado Boulder and DESI Collaboration
Biology
- Biome
- Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET)
- Theodor Förster 1910—1974
- Lithops
- Optocollic reflex
- Vestibulo–ocular reflex (VOR)
Bodymind
- The 5 A.M. Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life 2018 by Robin Sharma
- Be Here Now by Ram Dass 1931—2019
- Bodymind
- Mental chronometry
- Jeremy Griffith, World Transformation Movement
- Virginia Satir
- Robert J. Waldinger, Grant Study
- Jordan Metzl, Setting Your Fitness Goals: Strategies for Optimizing Health Through Activity
- Plymouth Rock in 1620
- Burpee
- Plank
- Esther Gokhale, Gokhale Method
- Frederick Matthias Alexander 1869—1955, Alexander Technique
- David R. Hawkins 1927—2012, The Map of Consoiusness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential
- Shin-ichiro Terayama 1936—2023
- WINN: What Is Needed Now
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 1934—2021
- The Awesomest 7-Year Postdoc or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-Track Faculty Life by Radhika Nagpal
- P.C. Benias et al., “Structure and Distribution of an Unrecognized Interstitium in Human Tissues.” Sci Rep 8, 4947 (2018).
- Subjectivity and objectivity
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
- Gabor Maté
- Soft skills
- Emotion classification
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Robert Plutchik 1927—2006
| Emotional intelligence | Others’ suffering | Others’ happiness | | :—: | :—: | :—: | | Bring us suffering | Empathy | Envy | | Bring us hapiness | Schadenfreude | Mudita |
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Ethics
- Bias
- Cardinal virtues
- Double standard
- Eclecticism
- Ethics
- Ethics Advice From a Utility Manager by Stuart G. Walesh
Ethics is the process used to make value-laden decisions beyond the law in professional matters
- Ethical dilemma
- Ethics Unwrapped
- Golden Rule
- IEEE Code of Ethics
- Immortalized cell line
- JSTOR (Journal Stroage)
- Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
- Moral imagination
- PhilPapers
- Social justice
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP)
- Sustainability
Humanities
- Humanities
- Digital humanities
- Project Gutenberg
- Chinese Text Project
- Code of Hammurabi 1755–1750 BCE (Before the Common Era)
- Yi Jing 1000–750 BCE
- Iliad 700 BCE by Homer
- Odyssey 700 BCE by Homer
- Aesop’s Fables 620–564 BCE
- Rosetta Stone 196 BCE
- The Travels of Marco Polo 1300 by Marco Polo 1254—1324 and Rustichello da Pisa
- Hasht-Bihisht 1302 by Amir Khusrau 1253—1325
- The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci by Leonardo da Vinci 1452—1519
- Don Quixote 1605 and 1615 by Miguel de Cervantes 1547—1616
- Gulliver’s Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World 1726 and 1735 by Jonathan Swift 1667—1745
- Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus 1818 by Mary Shelley 1797—1851
- Les Fleurs du mal 1857 by Charles Baudelaire 1821—1867
- Les Misérables 1862 by Victor Hugo 1802—1885
- War and Peace 1865—1869 by Leo Tolstoy 1828—1910
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 1865 by Lewis Carroll 1832—1898
- The Google Book 1913 by Vincent Cartwright Vickers 1879—1939
- Barney Google and Snuffy Smith 1919 by Billy DeBeck 1890—1942
- Mathematics and the Imagination 1940 by Edward Kasner 1878—1955 and James R. Newman 1907—1966
- Animal Farm 1945 and Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949 by George Orwell 1903—1950
- Stranger in a Strange Land 1961 by Robert A. Heinlein 1907—1988
- Grok
- Grok (chatbot) by xAI
- Groq Language Processing Unit (LPU)
- Catch-22 1961 by Joseph Heller 1923—1999
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 1979 by Douglas Adams 1952—2001
- Gödel, Escher, Bach (GEB): An Eternal Golden Braid— A Metaphorical Fugue on Minds and Machines in the Spirit of Lewis Carroll 1979 and I Am a Strange Loop 2007 by Douglas Hofstadter
- Proposed and discussed the concept of a strange loop to demonstrate how the properties of self-referential systems such as Gödel’s incompleteness theorems can be used to describe the unique properties of minds that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter
- Fugue
- Self-reference
- Ouroboros
- Paradox
- Recursive acronym
- Backronym
- Self-similarity
- Fractal
- Sierpiński triangle by Wacław Sierpiński 1882—1969
- A Fire Upon the Deep 1992 by Vernor Vinge 1944—2024
- The Three-Body Problem 2006–2008 by Cixin Liu
- The Night Watch 1642 by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn 1606—1669
- Las Meninas 1656 by Diego Velázquez 1599—1660
- Giuseppe Castiglione 1688—1766
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The Gleaners 1857 by Jean-François Millet 1814—1875
- Piano Concerto No. 21 1785 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756—1791
Mathematics
- Conjecture
- Daily Challenge with Po-Shen Loh
- Paul Erdős 1913—1996
- Fields Medal
- Grigori Perelman
- Karmarkar’s algorithm by Narendra Karmarkar
- Terence Tao
- Yitang Zhang
Methodologies
- Ansatz
- Back-of-the-envelope calculation
- BLUF (communication): bottom line up front
- Decision-matrix method
- Guesstimate
- Heuristic
- Iceberg theory
- KISS principle: keep it simple stupid
- Likert scale
- Occam’s razor or law of parsimony
- Rule of thumb
- Sanity check
- SECI model of knowledge dimensions: socialization, externization, combination, internalization
- SWOT analysis: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats
- Taxonomy
- TL;DR
- Trial and error
- VUCA: volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity
Neuroscience
- Barbara Oakley, Learning How to Learn
- Barbara Oakley, Beth Rogowsky, and Terry Sejnowski, Uncommon Sense Teaching
- Neuroscience
- The human brain has 86 billion neurons
- Amygdala
- Cerebral cortex
- Soma
- Dendrite
- Action potential
- Dendritic action potentials and computation in human layer 2/3 cortical neurons
- Calcium-mediated dendritic action potentials (dCaAPs)
- Axon
- Synapse
- Working memory
- Long-term memory
- Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)
- Neurobiological effects of physical exercise
- Dopamine
- Endorphins
- McGovern Institute for Brain Research
- Elizabeth Koch, Unlikely Collaborators, Tiny Blue Dot Foundation, and Perception Box
Standards
Documentation
- George H. Heilmeier 1936—2014, Heilmeier’s Catechism
- Irving Herman, “Following the law: A guide for the perplexed graduate student doing research”
- Laws of Herman
- The First Amendment: “If you didn’t document it, you didn’t do it.”
- The Second Amendment: “Do not present your advisor with only your data and analysis; also present your conclusions and plans for future work.”
- The Third Amendment: “Do not present your advisor with only your conclusions and plans for future work; also present your data and analysis.”
- Laws of Herman
- IEEE Author Center
- LaTeX
- Overleaf
- TeXnicCenter
- IEEE Editorial Style Manual for Authors plus IEEE Mathematics Guide and IEEE Reference Guide
- Digital object identifier (DOI)
- Conference Manuscript Format Definition Table
- IEEE Publishing Ethics
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- Free and open-source software
- List of free and open-source software packages
GitHub Basics
- Command-line interface (CLI)
- Bash
- Graphical user interface (GUI)
- Version control
- Git
- GitHub
- Comparison of source-code-hosting facilities
- Markdown
- Pandoc markup format converter
- GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)