chronicles of an English teacher
8 Nov 2023 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
Ever since ChatGPT exploded into our public consciousness, the teaching fraternity in my country appears to have embraced it. Teaching is a multifaceted profession, with teachers wearing many hats in and outside the classroom. Our focus and energy ar...
7 Nov 2023 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
Decided to level up and post at chatGPT for Teachers for the first time. So I cross-post here lor. Haha. —- Hi, I’m a teacher from Singapore. I used to teach elementary school English. In order to prepare my students well for their Primary School Lea...
1 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Finally got some time to compile these fairly recent developments of MATIC (or should I say POL): MATIC 1. The Bank of Italy intends to collaborate with Polygon (cheap & fast transactions) and Fireblocks (enterprise-grade security & custody solution...
1 Nov 2023 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei
Ever since I decided to live the Bitcoin Standard to the best of my ability, I find that Bitcoin has been salient at the forefront of my consciousness. It’s because I have resolved to always accumulate sats to buy gift cards from Bitrefill. I mean, i...
30 Oct 2023 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
Finally had some time to bring myself up to speed on UTXOs. Still quite confused about them actually, so I’m sure my DYOR notes are fallible. Please point out my mistakes and lapses in my thinking: About UTXO UTXO refers to Unspent Transaction...
24 Oct 2023 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
In the midst of reading “Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do” (yes, the book that inspired ex-President Barack Obama’s Netflix series of the same name), something just occurred to me. A select group...
17 Oct 2023 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
In June 2023, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) released a whitepaper proposing a common protocol that spelt out exactly the conditions when digital money such as central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), tokenised bank deposits, and stableco...
17 Oct 2023 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei
It’s exam season but I’m so weary of going through paragraphs and passages that don’t inspire me at all. My students are weak at text cohesion exercises that require them to arrange sentences in order, so what better way to orange-pill them than shar...
16 Oct 2023 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei
This post was inspired by @birdeye21, so half of whatever sats it garners should go to him so that he can continue to grace us with his interesting questions. Anyway, yesterday a Stacker mentioned how he is energised by the interesting problems he en...
15 Oct 2023 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei
dYdX If dYdX reminds you of your Math lessons, it’s because dYdX is a Calculus term that means “derivatives”. Transported to the finance context, dYdX is a decentralised exchange that allows investors to undertake margin trading of perpetual futures...
