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Oct 18, 2024
1) Confusing “conceptually simple” with “notationally compact”, and 2) jumping to the most general method right away.
Oct 18, 2024
Oct 18, 2024
The 3 types of problems that I would have students work out back when I was teaching ML.
Oct 17, 2024
Oct 17, 2024
Oct 17, 2024
When an algorithm or process feels magical, that’s typically an indication you don’t really understand what’s happening under the hood.
Oct 16, 2024
If you don’t love it, you’ll never be able to keep up with the same volume of effective practice as someone who does have that love. You’ll never outwork them.
Oct 14, 2024
There are many studies demonstrating a benefit of some component of deliberate practice, but these studies often get mislabeled or misinterpreted as demonstrating the full benefit of true deliberate practice. The field of education is particularly susceptible to this issue because it is impossible for a teacher with a classroom of students to provide a true deliberate practice experience without assistive technology that perfectly emulates the one-on-one pedagogical decisions that an expert tutor would make for each individual student.
Oct 12, 2024
An easy trick to improve your retention while working through a bank of review or challenge problems like LeetCode, HackerRank, etc.
Oct 11, 2024
I was coming in with the mindset of “we need to cover the superset of all the content covered in the major textbooks,” which we’re able to do quite well for traditional math. For ML, the rule will have to be amended to “we need to cover the superset of all the content covered in standard university course syllabi.”
Oct 11, 2024
A little rhyme to understand the big picture of top-down vs bottom-up learning, particularly in the context of machine learning (ML).
Oct 7, 2024
At the end of the day you can either waste time debating your coach on the training regimen, or you can use that time to just put your head down and do some f*cking work.
Oct 6, 2024
Oct 2, 2024
Pictures can help build mathematical intuition, but sometimes learners think they should fully visualize every single problem they solve, which actually handicaps their thinking. Math involves generalizing patterns in logically consistent ways, and the generalizations eventually go beyond what you can fully picture in your head.
Sep 30, 2024
Hardcore skill development is necessary to do big things, it’s one of the greatest social mobility hacks, and it gives you the ability/confidence to take risks knowing that you’ll be okay.
Sep 29, 2024
Sep 27, 2024
One of the best career hacks – especially for a junior dev – is to knock out your work so quickly and so well that you put pressure on your boss to come up with more work for you. Your boss starts giving you work that they themself need to do soon, which is really the exact kind of work that’s going to move your career forward.
Sep 26, 2024
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Sep 23, 2024
To quote a Math Academy student: “The fastest and most rigorous progress will be made by individuals in front of their computers.”
Sep 23, 2024
The fuzzier that memory, the harder it is to lift. The wait creates the weight.
Sep 21, 2024
Get yourself into an area that requires deep domain expertise, working on things that haven’t been done or even thoroughly imagined yet.
Sep 19, 2024
Making progress is all about putting pressure on a problem: applying the force of your skills to a specific problem area (pressure = force / area).
Sep 18, 2024
Once you get past steps 1-3, it’s hard to find scaffolding. You can’t just enroll in a course or pick up a textbook. The scaffolding comes from finding a mentor on a mission that you identify with and are well-suited to contribute to. And it can take a lot of searching to find that person and problem area that’s the right fit.
Sep 17, 2024
Sep 16, 2024
When students do the mathematical equivalent of playing kickball during class, and then are expected to do the mathematical equivalent of a backflip at the end of the year, it’s easy to see how struggle and general negative feelings can arise.
Sep 15, 2024
Regret minimization cuts both ways.
Sep 14, 2024
And why we refer to ourselves as still being “in beta.”
Sep 14, 2024
Sep 12, 2024
… is asking students to perform activities that leverage a non-existent knowledge base.
Sep 11, 2024
The need for automaticity on low-level skills is obvious to anyone with experience learning a sport or instrument. So why is there sometimes resistance in education? It makes sense if you think about what people usually find persuasive.
Sep 10, 2024
Love the terminal? You can manage all your files effortlessly using these terminal file managers on Linux. Better than the ls and tree commands.
Sep 10, 2024
The whole idea is that you want the other person to raise the bar on competition and pass you up, so that you’re motivated to come right back and do the same to them.
Sep 9, 2024
Every time you put out a post, get feedback, make improvements, and carry those improvements forward into future posts, that’s essentially a “rep” of deliberate practice.
Sep 7, 2024
a flat $0.
Sep 5, 2024
Sep 3, 2024
1) Don’t use projects as a way to acquire fundamental skills. 2) Make sure the projects are guided. 3) Don’t let the projects cut too much into your foundational skill-building.
Sep 2, 2024
You get to provide value that nobody else can, and you get recognized for it.
Aug 31, 2024
The habit is a psychological force field that protects you from all sorts of negative feelings that try to dissuade you from training.
Aug 31, 2024
It’s a hard truth that some people have more advantageous cognitive differences than others – e.g., higher working memory capacity, higher generalization ability, slower forgetting rate. However, there are two sources of hope: 1) automaticity can effectively turn your long-term memory into an extension of your working memory, and 2) many sources of friction in the learning process can be not only remedied but also exploited to increase learning speed beyond the status quo.
Aug 30, 2024
If you try to keep information close by taking great notes that you can reference all the time… that just PREVENTS you from truly retaining it.
Aug 30, 2024
Fun is a supplement, not a substitute, for deliberate practice.
Aug 29, 2024
The article presents two claims of deliberate practice that it argues against – but the first claim is a misattribution, and the second claim is not actually argued against.
Aug 28, 2024
Even if students are working on exactly the right things, they need to be working exactly the right way to capture the most learning from their time spent working.
Aug 27, 2024
Doesn’t “beyond the edge of one’s capabilities” mean that you can’t do it? How can you practice it if you can’t do it? Also, “performance-improving adjustments on every single repetition” is hard to understand in some realms of performance. For instance, does each step a runner takes involve feedback and improvement?
Aug 27, 2024
every individual student is actively engaged on every piece of material to be learned.
Aug 26, 2024
Aug 24, 2024
Aug 24, 2024
And if you want to get the most out of your review, you need to engage in spaced, interleaved retrieval practice.
Aug 23, 2024