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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.
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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.
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And if you want to get the most out of your review, you need to engage in spaced, interleaved retrieval practice.
Aug 23, 2024
A limit problem conjured up from the depths of hell.
Aug 22, 2024
Hi All. I have been doing daily notes in my own weird format for over six months now, but each time I try and sit down and make a weekly template (or monthly) I always get stuck trying to work out what to aggregate and h…
Aug 21, 2024
If any student, anywhere, is looking for advice on how to prepare for a standardized math test, then this is everything I’d tell them.
Aug 18, 2024
It’s the tragedy of the commons.
Aug 17, 2024
A comment to page 165 of Jo Boaler’s new book Math-ish
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1) Foundational math. 2) Classical machine learning. 3) Deep learning. 4) Cutting-edge machine learning.
Aug 8, 2024
You gotta develop automaticity on low-level skills in order to free up mental resources for higher-level thinking!
Aug 7, 2024
… is to not overwhelm them. In my experience, students naturally enjoy math when it doesn’t feel overwhelmingly difficult to learn.
Aug 6, 2024
Curiosity/interest motivates people to engage in deliberate practice, which is what builds ability.
Aug 5, 2024
Bloom studied the training backgrounds of 120 world-class talented individuals across 6 talent domains: piano, sculpting, swimming, tennis, math, & neurology, and what he discovered was that talent development occurs through a similar general process, no matter what talent domain. In other words, there is a “formula” for developing talent – though executing it is a lot harder than simply understanding it.
Aug 5, 2024
It can be helpful to take a top-down approach in planning out your overarching learning goals, but the learning itself has to occur bottom-up.
Aug 5, 2024
Each decomposition produces a system of linear equations where the number of unknowns equals the number of equations.
Aug 5, 2024
Effective explicit instruction is all about clarity, and breaking down information, and minimizing the load on working memory.
Aug 4, 2024
1) The information must have already been written to memory. 2) The information must be retrieved from memory, unassisted.
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Nobody who knows the science of learning is actually debating this.
Jul 31, 2024
I think optimal motivation requires a balance of both intrinsic and extrinsic factors.
Jul 31, 2024
The amount of practice should be determined on the basis of each student’s individual performance on each individual topic. Some students may end up having to do more work, but this ultimately empowers them to learn and continue learning into the future.
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I can think of 4 possible sources.
Jul 28, 2024
There is an asymmetric tradeoff between 1) blowing your working memory capacity and leaving yourself unable to make progress, versus 2) wasting a couple extra seconds writing down a bit more work than you need to. When in doubt, write it out.
Jul 28, 2024
Write code that makes complicated decisions, often involving some kind of inference.
Jul 27, 2024
Here’s a trick to feel amazingly capable and confident: periodically look back at stuff you originally found challenging months ago.
Jul 27, 2024
Greatness emerges from a virtuous cycle of hard work and luck compounding on each other.
Jul 26, 2024
Around 50-60 XP/day, that is, 50-60 minutes of serious practice per day. Just like the high-end amount of daily exercise you’d expect from people who keep a consistent exercise routine at the gym.
Jul 26, 2024
With the science of learning, it’s less about “keeping up” with what’s happening, and more about “catching up” with what’s already happened.
Jul 24, 2024