By Interest¶
The pages above are organised by where you are (classroom, workshop, hackathon, home). This one is organised by what you care about — because people lean in when they see their own interests laid out.
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Aspiring programmer / vibe coder
Write your first talking bot; grow it into something that does a job
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Backend & distributed systems
Message bus, routing, RPC, JWT auth — with the deployment cliff removed
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Machine learning & data science
Labeling as a live classification playground
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Systems thinkers
Dual-context bots, delays, feedback loops, leverage points — made pokeable
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Software & systems architects
Architecture as deliberate tradeoff — decentralize meaning, centralize trust
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Social sciences & civics
Simulate belief systems; observe opinion dynamics emerge
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Ethics, privacy & digital citizenship
Build the profiling machine in a sandbox to understand it
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Media & information literacy
RAG, source evaluation, catching an AI being confidently wrong
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Teachers & educators
Author subject-specific bots without being an engineer
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Language & humanities
Bots that discuss texts, label rhetorical moves, track meaning shifts
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Global citizenship / SDG-minded learners
SDG 4 in action — model climate, peace, governance as systems
Check your understanding¶
- Which entry point matches your background? What would you build first?
- How does the decentralization-as-a-spectrum framing change how you think about system design?
- What is exaptation, and where does it show up in MEADOWS?