I didn't read your book. I don't read books.
It has to do with focus #ADHD and I didn't even read "required reading" in school. I did well at the paragraph level, never beyond a page.
Some of these books were condensed PODCAST or presentations of a series, like Psychology, Philosophy, Astrophysics, etc. Some were novels.
The most I have read in my entire life, in 2023. Three earbuds, three BT Headphones later
Twice in the last month, someone has lamented near me that they have a bunch of learned-through-experience knowledge in their head, and they don't know how to draw it out into lessons to #teach their colleagues.
This is called "tacit knowledge". And fortunately, we actually know some ways to elicit it from experts & use it to train new learners!
I've appreciated Cedric Chin's blog series on this:
What's your favourite app or online resource to learn about different topics in bite-sized chunks? These are the ones I check during my daily commute, to give you an idea what I'm looking for:
Astronomy Picture of the Day (duh!)
Daily Art app
I'm not looking for in-depth resources, only condensed ones for when I'm brain-dead and/or short of time.
I very much welcome non-astronomy recommendations, surprise me! (Not looking for language apps though).
#Mandarin#Language learning progress: 30/100 characters learned & memorised so far. HSK 2 vocab nearly 80% done. I may complete HSK 4 vocab in Q1 after all.
May be upping my goal for learning characters to 1000 by end of 2024. My brain seems to like the Tofu Learning app's flashcard system. Things actually stick!
Learning new-to-me Salesforce features is both fun and frustrating. Documentation rarely answers my questions. They're either too niche or the answer is "no" so no one has written about it. Maybe I should make a blog that's just about what Salesforce can't do so that a result appears when searched.
Me, trying to figure out how to implement basic drag functionality in #Bevy#BevyEngine UI without the cursor jumping to the mid-point of the dragged rectangle.😬
We are finally dropping an episode about the thing no one wants to talk about - boundaries in teaching! Boundaries are confusing personally, let alone professionally, & there is almost ZERO info on setting boundaries as a teacher!
We don't have a magical solution, but we're offering starting points, give us a listen.
So does anyone else kinda not like #Duolingo? Like, it’s a nice and easy way to begin #learning a #language and it seems a lot of my friends also use it, the problem is instead of getting real people to do the voices they use text-to speech, which means you often do not get the correct #pronunciation. Like, often you get both a normal speed and a slow speed recordings of the pronunciation to pick from, and the two versions will often use completely different #TTS voices that not only have diffent quality, but also very different #pronunciations despite being the same words or sentences. It seems like the wrong way to learn a language. Also, what is up with the #owl? @actuallyautistic
Bio was too big, and I didn't yet make an #Introduction:
Hi, I'm Leonard/Janis (like Cohen/Joplin respectively), I use they/them pronouns, he/him (Leo) and she/her (Janis).
I'm a #genderqueer#hacker from #Berlin. I'm a professional procrastinator, don't expect me to stick to one project :'-)
Outside of computing I love #running, #handball and #rollerblades, adore cats, have a passion for #teaching and spend too much time following politics. I listen to #Blues but my musical taste has since widened to also embrace R'n'B, Rock, Funk, and a lot of modern stuff. I read classic #fiction and my favorite authors are Terry #Pratchett, Douglas Adams, J.R.R. #Tolkien, Robert Harris, and Sjöwall & Wahlöö (rather male dominated, send recommendations!).
I'm politically left #AssignedCatAtBirth but not settled on the specific question of government.
I'm a #privacy and #security fetishist (these aren't the same, sometimes even oblique). Some see a gray space here, I consider the right to data self-determination a fundamental right. Also, free #housing, #publicTransport and a livable environment are fundamental. #Learning and #teaching are crucial for individuals and society. Tech won't solve our core problems, merely highlight them and perhaps provide tools for change we can use.
Does anyone know where I might find free OS images that have pre-built forensic data you can investigate? Like a hack the box but for forensics? #forensics#infosec#incidentresponse#learning
I've seen several respected luminaries argue that LLM is not "true AI" or "Strong AI" since it's based on large learning sets and predictive behavior. They argue that humans and animals are not taught on such large language models or data sets.
What are education and experience, if not Large Learning Models based on the teaching of schools, universities, and books?
Cape Town libraries have free access to Overdrive or Libby eBooks as well as over 7,000 local and international newspapers via PressReader
Apart from the above there is also online access to African storybooks in English, isiXhosa and Afrikaans, Fundza literacy learning, SA curriculum for homeschooling, ISET publication for careers in IT, and more.
It is really good to see libraries catering ...continues
The word "pedant" has its roots in the Latin "paedagogantem," which is the present participle of "paedagogare," meaning "to act as a pedagogue or to teach."
The Latin word is derived from the Greek "paidagōgós," which originally referred to a slave who escorted children to and from school but later meant "a teacher".
The past couple days I spent so many hours trying to get PyPodcats website to work (using Hugo).
The reason it took so long was because I thought the theme uses bootstrap, and I was googling about "how to do X in bootstrap", but nothing seemed to work.
Then I tried comparing my bootstrap version vs the one from the internet. And that's when I learned that we're using tailwind instead of bootstrap 😥
When you write longhand, you write slower than typing. Because it takes longer, you spend more time with what you’re writing. When you spend more time with what you’re writing, you remember and learn more. Typing shortcuts memory by shortcutting time.
I've been a little suspicious that almost everything I wrote in Chinese, ChatGPT said was 👍 .
However, today my faith was reaffirmed when ChatGPT corrected me when I wrote 我出家。
ChatGPT: "出家" usually means to become a monk or nun, which might not be the intended meaning.
Bwahaha. Would've made an interesting diary entry though.
But what's encouraging though is that I seemed to have internalised Chinese grammar ... mostly.