Victor Loux Bookmarks Tag: learning

118 bookmarks tagged “learning

How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine - Superorganizers

superorganizers.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-learning-machine
Shopify’s Director of Production Engineering explains how reading broadly helps him get to the bottom of things

Gamedev Tutorial: Trigonometry Basics – Sine & Cosine | Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou | 周明倫

allenchou.net/2019/08/trigonometry-basics-sine-cosine/
[latexpage] Here is the Chinese translation of this post.本文之中文翻譯在此 Overview Trigonometry is a very essential building block to a huge portion of game math.

MIT Scientists prove adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as children

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This week a new paper was published in the journal Cognition titled “A Critical Period for Second Language Acquisition” that used a new, viral Facebook-quiz-powered method of gathering a huge…

Chasing 10X: Leveraging A Poor Memory In Engineering

senrigan.io/blog/chasing-10x-leveraging-a-poor-memory-in-software-engineering
When I was burned out and my software engineering career was collapsing, I found that using spaced repetition was the one thing that enabled me to improve faster than I had imagined.

Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy” | blog :: Brent -> [String]

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While working on an article for the Monad.Reader, I've had the opportunity to think about how people learn and gain intuition for abstraction, and the implications for pedagogy. The heart of the matter is that people begin with the concrete, and move to the abstract. Humans are very good at pattern recognition, so this is…