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by fud101 461 days ago
Books suck (imho). We need a new format to teach and learn this deep technical stuff. Not youtube, something interactive with exercises and engagement.
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> something interactive with exercises and engagement

Books have exercises. It's your job to engage.

This book, in particular, has 3 pages of Problems per chapter. The only way to learn the math is to do all of them.

thanks. i was worried about job security for a nanosecond.
It's a wild world where "reading the documentation" or "researching a topic" has become a career superpower. I'm glad my education largely predated social media and cell phones, and that I learned to read and work problems independently. OTOH it often makes work a very lonely, taxing experience. Being a human index into documentation is a hell of a lot less fulfilling than working with people who also can read.
yeah, I mean 3Blue1Brown has done a great job .. and maybe those would be even better if you could app-ify them into something you can interact with.

Current gen of LLM programming AIs might make it less leg-work to make these

3b1b is great but if you want to do deep technical work, you’re eventually going to have to get comfortable with text as a medium
I urge you to rethink this perspective. All research shows that paper increases comprehension significantly over screens and even over eink. Additionally hand note taking again has a positive impact.
It's never worked for me. I own tons of books that i want to read but never will.
Well, there's also school.