Sunday, October 4, 2026

Customized education with Grok Bot

 

Every morning, before my kids even leave for school, Grok Bot has already made and printed a math worksheet specifically for each of them based on what they’ve been working on at school and what they missed the day before. My younger son is 5 yrs old, in kindergarten, so his sheet has 30-40 problems personalized for his level, yet challenges him on the things he missed the day before. His addition can go past 10, but subtraction starts small, usually from 10 or under, and only moves up a little once he’s consistently getting those right. His newest sheet, for example, has problems like 15 − 8, but that came after working through the smaller ones first. It changes every day. My older son is 8 yrs old, in third grade, and his worksheet is 25 problems. What I like most is that for the harder problems he misses, Grok Bot keeps mixing them back in differently over the next few days, whether it’s perimeter, area, larger multiplication problems, or word problems where he earns more points at school. If he misses that type of problem once, there’s a good chance he’s seeing it again the next morning - it doesn't forget. When they finish their worksheets, I take a picture of each worksheet and send it back to Grok Bot. That’s what it uses to build the next one, so it already knows which problems they got right, where they struggled, and what should come back again instead of starting from scratch every day. This is better than any math book I've ever bought for them bc Grok Bot writes a new one, tailored for each of them overnight, and when I go downstairs around 6am, these worksheets are already printed and waiting... every single day. Then during the ride to school I use Grok in my Tesla for anything we need to dive into. I'm so proud of my kids... and I have a BIG prize waiting for them when they reach worksheet milestones I've set for them. Grok Bot is so awesome.





Friday, October 2, 2026

transforming Earth-to-Earth travel

 


https://x.com/XFreeze/status/2105764857882739168?s=20

Starship is going to completely transform Earth-to-Earth travel Instead of spending 8, 10 or 12 hours crossing the planet in a commercial aircraft, Starship’s point-to-point system is designed to send passengers above most of the atmosphere and across Earth in roughly half an hour The proposed travel times are wild: • Los Angeles → New York: 25 min • Bangkok → Dubai: 27 min • Tokyo → Singapore: 28 min • London → New York: 29 min • New York → Paris: 30 min • Sydney → Singapore: 31 min • Los Angeles → London: 32 min • London → Hong Kong: 34 min Here’s how it works... Launch from one side of Earth, accelerate into a suborbital trajectory, coast across the planet at enormous speed, then descend and land near the destination A journey that normally consumes most of your day could become shorter than many people’s daily commute Starship is being built for orbit, the Moon and Mars But the same vehicle will eventually redefine how humans travel across Earth too From crossing oceans in hours to crossing the planet in minutes


Elon Musk sees a path where the cost to orbit drops below commercial air freight Ultimately Starship will be able to fly across the globe cheaper per ton than a Boeing 747 That opens up a massive range of possibilities for global logistics



Okay. No. That will not work. Only because... Have you calculated how much G-force you need to handle to travel like that? Ordinary people are definitely not really trained for 3+ G...


3G really isn't that bad. You just feel like a fridge magnet. Did it in Space Camp years ago.