1<!doctype html> 2<html lang="en"> 3<head> 4 <meta charset="utf-8"> 5 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> 6 <title>Blog â Jerick Shi</title> 7 <meta name="description" content="Writing on math education, teaching, and AI by Jerick Shi."> 8 <meta property="og:type" content="website"> 9 <meta property="og:site_name" content="Jerick Shi"> 10 <meta property="og:url" content="https://jerick-1380.github.io/blog/"> 11 <meta property="og:title" content="Blog"> 12 <meta property="og:description" content="Writing on math education, teaching, and AI by Jerick Shi."> 13 <meta property="og:image" content="https://jerick-1380.github.io/assets/img/social/og-default.png"> 14 <meta property="og:image:width" content="1200"> 15 <meta property="og:image:height" content="627"> 16 <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image"> 17 <link rel="icon" href="/assets/img/brain.jpg"> 18 <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com"> 19 <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin> 20 <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inter:wght@400;500;600&family=JetBrains+Mono:wght@400;700&family=Space+Grotesk:wght@500;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet"> 21 <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/main.css?v=202609271451"> 22</head> 23<body> 24 <div id="progress"></div> 25 <canvas id="starfield"></canvas> 26 <div class="bg-glow"></div> 27 28 <nav class="nav"> 29 <div class="nav-inner"> 30 <a class="logo" href="/"><b>jerick</b>@shi:~$<span class="cursor">â</span></a> 31 <button class="nav-burger" aria-label="Menu">â°</button> 32 <div class="nav-links"> 33 <a href="/">About</a> 34 <a href="/publications/">Research</a> 35 <a href="/projects/">Projects</a> 36 <a href="/teaching/">Teaching</a> 37 <a href="/blog/">Blog</a> 38 <a href="/books/">Books</a> 39 <a href="/hobbies/">Hobbies</a> 40 <a href="/cv/">CV</a> 41 <button class="cmdk-btn" aria-label="Open command palette">âK</button> 42 </div> 43 </div> 44 </nav> 45 46 <header class="page-head wrap"> 47 <div class="eyebrow"><span class="idx">//</span> writing_archive</div> 48 <h1 data-scramble>Blog</h1> 49 <p class="lead">Thoughts on math education, teaching, and what AI changes about both.</p> 50 </header> 51 52 <main class="wrap-narrow" style="padding-bottom:3rem; max-width:860px;"> 53 <div class="filter-bar"> 54 <button class="filter-btn active" data-filter="all">All</button> 55 <button class="filter-btn" data-filter="education">Education</button> 56 <button class="filter-btn" data-filter="mathematics">Mathematics</button> 57 <button class="filter-btn" data-filter="ai">AI</button> 58 <button class="filter-btn" data-filter="teaching">Teaching</button> 59 <button class="filter-btn" data-filter="research">Research</button> 60 </div> 61 62 <a class="post-row featured reveal" href="/blog/2026/what-your-projects-are-showing/" data-tags="career ai research projects"> 63 <span class="date">2026.09.27 · new</span> 64 <h3>What Your Projects Are Showing (Now That AI Can Build Any of Them)</h3> 65 <p>Recruiting season, empty resumes, and what a project is supposed to show now that AI can handle the technical part. Plus how I got into a research lab by extending one of its projects over winter break.</p> 66 <div class="post-meta"><span class="chip">career</span><span class="chip">ai</span><span class="chip">research</span><span class="mins">8 min read</span></div> 67 </a> 68 <a class="post-row reveal" href="/blog/2026/three-levels-of-understanding/" data-tags="education ai mathematics intuition teaching"> 69 <span class="date">2026.09.20</span> 70 <h3>Three Levels of Understanding (And the Only One AI Hasn't Taken Yet)</h3> 71 <p>3Blue1Brown's video on the IMO problem no model could solve, a framework for what understanding actually means, and why intuition is the only level educators still need to fight for.</p> 72 <div class="post-meta"><span class="chip">education</span><span class="chip">ai</span><span class="chip">intuition</span><span class="mins">10 min read</span></div> 73 </a> 74 <a class="post-row reveal" href="/blog/2026/icml-2026-favorite-papers/" data-tags="icml research llm-agents ai conferences">
75 <span class="date">2026.07.21</span> 76 <h3>Poster Hall Finds: 11 Papers That Stopped Me at ICML 2026</h3> 77 <p>Notes from wandering the ICML 2026 poster halls in Seoul: papers on LLM agents, education, and finance that anyone can actually read, plus why each one caught my attention.</p> 78 <div class="post-meta"><span class="chip">research</span><span class="chip">llm-agents</span><span class="chip">icml</span><span class="mins">5 min read</span></div> 79 </a> 80 <a class="post-row reveal" href="/blog/2025/rethinking-education-ai-enhanced-classroom/" data-tags="education ai teaching learning"> 81 <span class="date">2025.09.28 · featured</span> 82 <h3>Rethinking Education: My Vision for an AI-Enhanced Classroom</h3> 83 <p>Imagining a future classroom where AI tools enhance learning through collaborative homework, conversational exams, and authentic project-based assessment.</p> 84 <div class="post-meta"><span class="chip">education</span><span class="chip">ai</span><span class="chip">teaching</span><span class="mins">6 min read</span></div> 85 </a> 86 <a class="post-row reveal" href="/blog/2025/learning-research-papers-with-ai/" data-tags="ai learning research education machine-learning"> 87 <span class="date">2025.09.08</span> 88 <h3>How I Actually Learn Complex Research Papers with AI (And Why You Should Too)</h3> 89 <p>A practical walkthrough of using AI to understand dense academic papers, from adversarial training to developing genuine mathematical intuition.</p> 90 <div class="post-meta"><span class="chip">ai</span><span class="chip">research</span><span class="chip">learning</span><span class="mins">7 min read</span></div> 91 </a> 92 <a class="post-row reveal" href="/blog/2025/why-ai-cant-do-math-homework/" data-tags="ai mathematics education intelligence teaching"> 93 <span class="date">2025.09.01 · featured</span> 94 <h3>Why AI Can't Actually Do Your Math Homework (And What That Tells Us About Intelligence)</h3> 95 <p>Exploring how AI's current failures in mathematics reveal the nature of intelligence, and why this window of distinguishability is rapidly closing.</p> 96 <div class="post-meta"><span class="chip">ai</span><span class="chip">mathematics</span><span class="chip">intelligence</span><span class="mins">7 min read</span></div> 97 </a>
98 <a class="post-row reveal" href="/blog/2025/two-way-street-tas-and-students/" data-tags="teaching education ta students learning"> 99 <span class="date">2025.08.26</span> 100 <h3>The Two-Way Street: What Great TAs and Smart Students Both Know</h3> 101 <p>Lessons from six semesters of teaching on the transformational relationship between TAs and students when both parties engage thoughtfully.</p> 102 <div class="post-meta"><span class="chip">teaching</span><span class="chip">education</span><span class="chip">students</span><span class="mins">7 min read</span></div> 103 </a> 104 <a class="post-row reveal" href="/blog/2025/after-5000-homework-assignments/" data-tags="mathematics education teaching learning strategy"> 105 <span class="date">2025.08.17</span> 106 <h3>After 5,000 Homework Assignments, I Know Why Math Fails Students (And How We Can All Do Better)</h3> 107 <p>Insights from grading thousands of assignments on why students struggle with math, and practical strategies for both learners and educators.</p> 108 <div class="post-meta"><span class="chip">mathematics</span><span class="chip">education</span><span class="chip">teaching</span><span class="mins">8 min read</span></div> 109 </a> 110 <a class="post-row reveal" href="/blog/2025/calculus-shouldnt-be-end-goal/" data-tags="mathematics education curriculum calculus"> 111 <span class="date">2025.08.10</span> 112 <h3>Why Calculus Shouldn't Be the End Goal of High School Math</h3> 113 <p>Arguing for diversified math pathways beyond calculus to show students the breadth of mathematical thinking.</p> 114 <div class="post-meta"><span class="chip">mathematics</span><span class="chip">education</span><span class="chip">curriculum</span><span class="mins">6 min read</span></div> 115 </a> 116 <a class="post-row reveal" href="/blog/2025/competitive-math-matters-ai-age/" data-tags="mathematics competitive-math ai problem-solving"> 117 <span class="date">2025.08.02</span> 118 <h3>Why Competitive Math Matters More Than Ever in the Age of AI</h3> 119 <p>How mathematical maturity and creative problem-solving from competition math become essential as AI handles routine calculations.</p> 120 <div class="post-meta"><span class="chip">mathematics</span><span class="chip">competitive-math</span><span class="chip">ai</span><span class="mins">7 min read</span></div> 121 </a> 122 <a class="post-row reveal" href="/blog/2025/future-of-math-education/" data-tags="mathematics education content-creation intuition"> 123 <span class="date">2025.07.27</span> 124 <h3>Exploring the Future of Math Education: Intuition, Algorithms, and Engaging Content</h3> 125 <p>My first blog post exploring how to make mathematics more intuitive through better storytelling, visualization, and real-world problems.</p> 126 <div class="post-meta"><span class="chip">mathematics</span><span class="chip">education</span><span class="chip">intuition</span><span class="mins">6 min read</span></div> 127 </a> 128 </main> 129 130 <footer> 131 <div class="wrap foot-grid"> 132 <div class="foot-links"> 133 <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Email</a> 134 <a href="https://github.com/Jerick-1380" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GitHub</a> 135 <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerick-shi-293773216" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn</a> 136 <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6wj2mTQAAAAJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scholar</a> 137 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@DummyR18" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube</a> 138 <a href="https://flickr.com/photos/203834484@N07/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Flickr</a> 139 <a href="/books/">Bookshelf</a> 140 </div> 141 <div class="foot-note">© 2026 JERICK SHI · PRESS âK TO NAVIGATE</div> 142 </div> 143 </footer> 144 145
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