Learning stuff

1 AI-augmented

A rapidly growing area, of course.

• Learn Your Way: Reimagining textbooks with generative AI draws on “dual coding theory” (Ainsworth 1999; Clark and Paivio 1991)
• AI tutoring outperforms active learning - by Gary Liang
• AI Tutoring Outperforms Active Learning | Research Square
• Two-Sigma Tutoring: Separating Science Fiction from Science Fact - Education Next
• Dr Philippa Hardman
• AI Tutors Double Rates of Learning in Less Learning Time

2 Spaced repetition/flashcards

See flashcards.

3 Incoming

• A Learning Secret: Don’t Take Notes with a Laptop | Scientific American

• Learn with the best online language tutors - Preply

• 12 Months of Mandarin / Methods of Mandarin

• Rules for Noobs!:

  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.

• Lynne Kelly (Kelly (2017); Kelly (2020))

• The Math Academy Way

• 12 Months of Mandarin

• Andy Matuschak, Why books don’t work

• Learn 150+ foreign languages with professional teachers online

• SharpestMinds

• The Coach in the Operating Room

• Probabilistic programming with Pyro: modelling 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

• A collection of links advocating learning a new language

• Josh Waitzkin, The Art of Learning

• Commoncog on learning

• (9) How to do everything - by David R. MacIver

• You’ll forget most of what you learn. What should you do about that?

• Vicki Boykis, How I learn machine learning

• How Nicky Case learns

• Simon Willison, AI assisted learning: Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code

• Andy Matuschak - Self-Teaching, Spaced Repetition, Why Books Don’t Work

• 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 practising. In fact, the average student needs to practise seven times in the average subject to achieve a “reasonable level of mastery”. Students who start out behind can catch up by practising more, and more advanced students need to practise 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.

• You Aren’t Learning If You Don’t Close the Loops

• Get Better at Anything Is Now Available — Scott H Young

4 References