Learning stuff
Shoving knowledge into my brain
June 16, 2020 — August 30, 2022
Teaching, but for myself.
Edward Kmett, Learning to Learn seems popular. Maybe Scott H Young’s pop psychology life hacks approach is useful? The notionally-teaching-oriented article by Ozy Brennan, Evidence-Based Learning Strategies For Homeschoolers has tips that also seem applicable self learning for my inner schoolchild.
If you ask someone who’s good at dating for dating advice they’ll often tell you to “just be yourself”. Since they themselves are good at dating, being themselves serves them well. But if your self isn’t good at dating, you should probably be less yourself and more like the self of one of those people who are good at dating.
Also useful: sleep, performance-enhancing supplements, Flashcard repetition…
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Andy Matuschak, Why books donʼt work
Learn 150+ foreign languages with professional teachers online
Probabilistic programming with Pyro: modeling the forgetting curve
Heyday - your research helping hand
Heyday automatically saves content you view, and resurfaces it when you need it.
Stephen Malina, Elmer Gates and the Art of Mind-using
Josh Waitzkin, The Art of Learning
You’ll forget most of what you learn. What should you do about that?
Vicki Boykis, How I learn machine learning
Simon Willison, AI assisted learning: Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code
The Machines of Mastery - by Ethan Mollick
That means that every student, regardless of their starting expertise or their rank within a class, gains roughly the same amount of skill and knowledge from practicing. In fact, the average student needs to practice seven times in the average subject to achieve a “reasonable level of mastery”. Students who start out behind can catch up by practicing more, and more advanced students need to practice less, but everyone gets almost the same benefit from practice … Even in its current form, ChatGPT is shockingly close to being able to help anyone, anywhere learn via deliberate practice.
