Re:List of 600 free online courses launched by 190 universities
by RivieraKid on Thursday October 25, 2018 @05:45PM
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Recently I've been trying to "systemize" my learning a bit. In general, my high-level plan is to learn the all major branches of science to a roughly undergrad level (go deeper or shallower selectively), focusing on the fundamental, core stuff.
This probably sounds ambitious, but you can use the Pareto principle (get 80% of the value by spending 20% of the time) and do various optimizations such as taking care to choose the best learning resources.
I have a learn.md file in Dropbox. It contains several sections: math, statistics, machine learning, physics, chemistry, biology, economics, programming. Each section has a list of subfields, for example biology has "molecular biology of the cell" (that's a book) and "brain". Each section also has a "resources" list and a "topics" list, which contains little topics I'm curious about, for example the math sections has svd and wavelets. And there's also a "next" section containing the list of things I plan to learn next.
Having an overview/roadmap like this really helps with the anxiety about what to focus on next, it makes me feel organized.
This probably sounds ambitious, but you can use the Pareto principle (get 80% of the value by spending 20% of the time) and do various optimizations such as taking care to choose the best learning resources.
I have a learn.md file in Dropbox. It contains several sections: math, statistics, machine learning, physics, chemistry, biology, economics, programming. Each section has a list of subfields, for example biology has "molecular biology of the cell" (that's a book) and "brain". Each section also has a "resources" list and a "topics" list, which contains little topics I'm curious about, for example the math sections has svd and wavelets. And there's also a "next" section containing the list of things I plan to learn next.
Having an overview/roadmap like this really helps with the anxiety about what to focus on next, it makes me feel organized.