The facebookification of the Internet brings with it a stupidification of the content that people produce and share.
The old web was about blog posts (long, though-out pieces of writing) which automatically form links to each other (through trackback) so that a conversation can emerge without the need for a centralized service.

Trackbacks are awesome! For example, I can make this post appear on quora if I embed some javascript (their embed code) which will ping the quora server:
Read Quote of Ivan Savov’s answer to Machine Learning: Does Topic Modeling need a training stage when using Gibbs sampling? And why does it work? on Quora

We need to cherish this kind of distributed technology, because it is the way out of the walled gardens. They are the living proof that you can have social without central.

LDA, BTW, is short for Latent Dirichlet Allocation which is a powerful way to classify documents according to the topics they contain.

I have been promoting and selling the book for the past two weeks art McGill and I have received a lot of good feedback from students. There is no point in thinking about business ideas — you have to go out and talk to clients. In just two weeks, I now have a title (thanks to my friend Adriano), a product line (I made a mechanics only version too) and a good idea of which pitches work and which do not.

Product

NO BULLSHIT guide to MATH & PHYSICS. In just 300 pages, this book covers Precalculus, Mechanics, Calculus I (derivatives) and Calculus II (integrals). All the material is explained in a clear conversational tone. 100% Math and Physics, No filler.

We sold out today. Let’s see what happens tomorrow.

I finally managed to complete the Mechanics Tutorial which I have been working on for the past couple of weeks. I am pretty proud of the result. The material from the entire Mechanics class is covered in just seven pages. This should illustrate to my future clients that they don’t need to read a 500 page book to learn mechanics.

All we can do now is wait and see if people will get in touch with me.