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by rongenre 2725 days ago
This is interesting (along with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18854170).

I have a Math BS, but I really wish I'd learned the material more comprehensively (I learned enough to get through problem sets and exams, but I don't feel that I really 'got it'). Paying for another degree is silly at this stage in life, but I'd happily pay a tutor to help me understand the material that 20-yr old me didn't grok the first time.

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TL;DR - you tried YouTube?

Tangentially related... I've been having really good luck lately via teaching myself via YouTube videos. By observing an example, I learn 10x faster than trying to follow a written exercise that gives me a bunch of material I'm not (yet) interested in.

This past weekend, I wanted to understand the basics of how one inserts data into a 2-3 tree. This video, along with the audio, taught me everything I wanted to know...

https://youtu.be/C3SsdUqasD4