The Binary Gambit @thebinarygambit

Christopher Alexander has an observation about problem solving that I like: you should always be focusing on solving the part that has the fewest degrees of freedom.

The more prerequisites you're missing, the wider the gap between your edge of mastery and new thing you're trying to learn, and the smaller the chance that you have enough working memory / generalization ability to bridge the gap. Wishing for more working memory / generalization…

Efficient learning is all about a cycle of minimum effective doses:

@justinskycak If you’re talking about learning technical subjects in the early stages of knowledge acquisition, I can see why the analogy to ML is tempting e.g. learners do update mental models based on examples and feedback. But I think the claim is incorrect in a few important ways: 1.…

@zzebra83 @_MathAcademy_ You put in the work in a favorable practice environment, you build up your ability, what used to be hard becomes easy, you see the growth you've achieved, you imagine how much more growth is in your near future, you gain confidence in your present skills and future trajectory,…

1) Train using effective techniques for improving performance 2) Get enough training volume 3) Train consistently That's all it is, that's all it's ever been, that's all it ever will be.

Wrote two implementations of FSRS, the most advanced spaced repetition algorithm: a Quarto notebook with graphs that interleaves prose and code, and a Rust implementation in 100 lines.

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Controversial take. It's great when students enjoy learning. And if they're having actual fun, even better! However, the thought, "How do I make this more fun for students?" has never entered my mind when designing a learning task, not even once! And I've been responsible for…

Oleksandr Korop @alex_korop

10 months ago

Controversial take. It's great when students enjoy learning. And if they're having actual fun, even better! However, the thought, "How do I make this more fun for students?" has never entered my mind when designing a learning task, not even once! And I've been responsible for…

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3 common areas of confusion about talent development (especially in math learning):

Jane Molnar @JaneMolnarMath

10 months ago

3 common areas of confusion about talent development (especially in math learning): https://t.co/sC8BO8qsJf

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Great example of automaticity leading to creativity. When you're so automatic on your subskills that your cognitive load is low, what is your mind to do but wander 😉

Neeraj Kapoor @neejkapoor

10 months ago

Great example of automaticity leading to creativity. When you're so automatic on your subskills that your cognitive load is low, what is your mind to do but wander 😉

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Before automaticity: View line/space on sheet music. Identify note name. Look at instrument. Move hands into position. Play note. After automaticity: View line/space on sheet music, now your hands are somehow already in position and the note name is weirdly floating around in…

Sarah Palodichuk @auesar

10 months ago

Before automaticity: View line/space on sheet music. Identify note name. Look at instrument. Move hands into position. Play note. After automaticity: View line/space on sheet music, now your hands are somehow already in position and the note name is weirdly floating around in…

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From the start of this school year, during math class time, my kids’ school has allowed the older one to go to their Learning Lab, sit alone on his computer (with lots of scratch paper at the ready), and work on a new (to me) AI-driven website called mathacademy.com…

The science of learning has advanced significantly over the past century. Numerous effective cognitive learning strategies have been identified and researched extensively since the early to mid-1900s, with key findings being successfully reproduced over and over again.

The thing that's put the biggest smile on my face in the past couple weeks: Hearing from a former student, now in his final year of high school (12th grade), that he published a research paper, solo author, and @_MathAcademy_ played a huge role putting him in a position where he…

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Justin Skycak @justinskycak

10 months ago

The thing that's put the biggest smile on my face in the past couple weeks: Hearing from a former student, now in his final year of high school (12th grade), that he published a research paper, solo author, and @_MathAcademy_ played a huge role putting him in a position where he… https://t.co/OQlXmsbILV

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The condition for getting yourself to do something is simple: it's just internal willpower ≥ external friction. If that condition is false then the way you make it true is by decreasing friction and/or increasing willpower. It's helpful to think of this like balancing a…

James Clear @JamesClear

10 months ago

The condition for getting yourself to do something is simple: it's just internal willpower ≥ external friction. If that condition is false then the way you make it true is by decreasing friction and/or increasing willpower. It's helpful to think of this like balancing a…

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One potential with LLMs is they expand the 'testable question types' because they can help with qualitative marking

If you want to successfully learn you have to frame the problem as writing info to memory and the way to accomplish that is to use memory-supporting training techniques. Lots of people try to weasel their way out of using effective training techniques by saying stuff like…

Automaticity is the road to intuition. Automaticity is about rapid, effortless retrieval/execution. Intuition is about something feeling natural and aligning with what your gut says. Both describe the feeling of knowing something so well it's just "in your bones." The only…