Medium Post · Courseware Map: Complete Free Resource Guide for Stanford CS Core (12 Courses)

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800

Part 2 · Course Map: All the Free Resources to Complete Stanford’s CS Core in 12 Courses I. Self-Study Is a Battle of Resources—Resources Determine Life or Death The previous post covered the coordinate system—why Stanford CS serves as the backbone. This post covers the ammunition: where to get lecture slides, videos, and textbooks for every course, and which ones are free and which require detours.

After 4 Weeks of Using AI to Check Fake News, Turning It Off Leaves You Worse Than When You Started — MIT's "Dependency Paradox"

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0800

In week one, people using an AI assistant to identify fake news were 21% more accurate than the control group. By week four, when the AI was taken away, their accuracy didn’t rise — it fell, ending up 15 percentage points below where they started before the experiment. Stranger still, about one in five participants “felt they had gotten better.” This comes from a study published on August 25, 2026 by Pattie Maes’s team at the MIT Media Lab (covered the same day by MIT Tec

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Medium Post · Courseware Map: Complete Free Resource Guide for Stanford CS Core (12 Courses)

After 4 Weeks of Using AI to Check Fake News, Turning It Off Leaves You Worse Than When You Started — MIT's "Dependency Paradox"