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Failure only moves you towards success to the extent that you learn from it. Learning from failure means not making the same mistake over and over again.
Oct 28, 2024
One main focus, one semi-focus, and everything else a hobby with whatever time you have left over.
Oct 28, 2024
… is reducing friction in the learning process.
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It can help to zoom out and look at your progress on a longer timescale.
Oct 25, 2024
Tear down the unproductive habit and build up a counter-habit whose gravity eventually becomes strong enough to completely overtake the original habit.
Oct 25, 2024
1) Difficulty grappling with complexity when it grows so big that you can’t fit everything in your head. 2) Lack of understanding or willingness to accept practical constraints of the problem and incorporate them into the solution. 3) Getting distracted by low-ROI features/details. 4) Being unwilling to do “tedious” work.
Oct 24, 2024
Depending on your goals, either A) methods of proof, or B) linear algebra followed by probability & statistics.
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What you want is a continual cycle of strain and adaptation.
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It’s really just “loading” the info into temporary storage – like picking up a weight off the rack, whereas learning is increasing your ability to lift said weight.
Oct 19, 2024
It’s helpful to loosely understand what something means before memorizing it, but this does not have to be a rigorous derivation.
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1) Confusing “conceptually simple” with “notationally compact”, and 2) jumping to the most general method right away.
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The 3 types of problems that I would have students work out back when I was teaching ML.
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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
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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.
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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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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.
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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.”
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Sep 12, 2024
… is asking students to perform activities that leverage a non-existent knowledge base.
Sep 11, 2024