Re:Algorithms for Decision Making
by taqd on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:00PM
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I enjoy typing, so I like to simply type out the entire textbook. It's a bit ridiculous to some, but it slows down the pace that I actually learn and engage with the content. A textbook usually takes me a couple months to type, and I'm never in a rush though finishing chapters is satisfying and an easy goal for an evening. I find it similar to as if I were to attend a lecture on the topic.
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David Goggins makes the claim that due to his learning disabilities he acquired the diving instruction manual 18 months ahead of time and wrote it out by hand 10 times in order to learn the material.
Thought that was really interesting.
Seems like a really bad way to learn.
But gotta love goggins, dude likes taking the hardest path to success.
I guess he had to do it that way in order to be able to learn it at all.
Quite a remarkable level of determination.
For people whose first language is not English maybe translating the book could be a good substitute (never tried this approach personally though)?
Re:Algorithms for Decision Making
by randomswede on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:01AM
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As somsone who's currently trying to translate an instruction manual from one language to another, it is... somewhat fragmentary. Yes, you read the text, multiple times (and in multiple languages).
But, the focus is not on internalising the material, the focus is on producing something that makes sense in a different language.
I guess part of the problem is that the source material I am working from is from 1596, in blackletter, and pretty archaic "source language", so the actual process is "transcribe original", "translate transcription".