This MIT course focuses on estimating answers and tackling problems through intuitive shortcuts instead of formal proofs or exact calculations. It covers guesswork techniques and heuristic strategies to quickly arrive at useful results.

The author loaded all 12 free MIT AI courses into Claude, creating a unified, fully functional research system. It shows how combining open educational resources with a powerful LLM can streamline and enhance AI research workflows.

Neuroscientists at MIT discovered millions of “silent synapses” in the adult brain, which are dormant neural connections that can be activated to form new memories. This finding suggests that the brain can preserve older memories while accommodating new learning, providing insights into memory flexibility and potential implications for aging.