Insightful and liberating.

“Learning is not supposed to be fun. It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort

…you want the mental equivalent of sweating.”

# on shortification of "learning"

There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are…

Andrej Karpathy

Insightful and liberating.

“Learning is not supposed to be fun. It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort

…you want the mental equivalent of sweating.”

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1756380066580455557?s=46

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Wishful thinker, lives off scraps of imagination

It can be both I think.

I’ve found forming new neural pathways always takes a bit of effort and wrestling with an idea to truly grok it.

I dunno, I think most of the straining in the learning process comes from poor pedagogy

Teaching is what should be hard.

No wonder i hate learning videos on youtube