Books

Taking a spin through JS’s Advice on Upskilling and The Math Academy Way. 

Helpful right now as I’m trying to advance a bunch of skills in parallel—computing, entrepreneurship, BJJ, math, climbing.

Taking a spin through JS’s Advice on Upskilling and The Math Academy Way. 

Helpful right now as I’m trying to advance a bunch of skills in parallel—computing, entrepreneurship, BJJ, math, climbing.
https://justinmath.com/books/

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til — looks interesting — at first glance seems like spaced repetition, but on steroids?

Kinda. This thread helps contextualise it in comp. to other approaches.

Do not start with fundamentals. This is an awful approach to learning. 

Start with so-called "advanced" topics and ask questions until every term/concept is understood. 

This is the correct, rigorous, scientific way to learn, because the advanced topics are embedded in larger,

Here's a secret I learnt after spelunking in the expertise + learning research literatures for ~3 years: the quoted tweet is correct, but not if your goal is to have kids do well in school.

The quoted tweet is only correct if you want them to be good at DOING, not exams.

Cedric Chin

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Kinda. This thread helps contextualise it in comp. to other approaches.
https://x.com/ejames_c/status/1895416279722594311

*insert ghiblified image of someone doing tai chi beneath the ocean’s surface

oh thanks, I remember now when you shared that recently. being in over my head has always been my happy place, funnily enough.