I really liked this video I am also watching this video (ruclips.net/video/733m6qBH-jI/видео.html) by Andrew Ng one of the god fathers of machine learning. His method for teaching a person to be a machine learning expert is to read a bunch of papers, replicate them, and try to understand why things aren't replicating which starts to form your understanding and ideas of the topics. I really like this approach. This is unrelated but I would really like a video on Generalist learning, knowledge transfer and widely applicable tacit knowledge. I am finding myself at odds with this either I can learn a specific skill and I can only do that skill and not aplicable to other contexts, but sometimes I find myself if I am approaching a learning session or task in a generalist mindset, I find myself forming conections that I seem unusal. An example I found is that some stress patterns of words in poetry "sound" like notes on the guitar. I found that this happens regardless of the difficulty of the learning task. Why do you think that is?
Agreed with Andrew Ng's perspective - trying to replicate what they did in papers (especially in an area where you can write programs tackling the same data) is a fantastic way to deeply understand it. I will try to tackle transfer at some point. It's a big, messy topic. But there will be some videos attacking it from certain angles coming up. I don't have an answer to your question, but it sounds like you keep your mind very open to new relationships.
I asked a question on this in the last video!! Thank you for this video!!! :D Your content is always so helpful for trying to get through my own ( undergrad) cognitive science degree :)
@@benjaminkeep Very glad to see you back, I learned a lot with this one. I had this question for years, not exaggerating. I feel like I can finally start getting value out of research papers instead of conforming to whatever the media is reporting on (and their biases and agendas). Thank you!!
This is wonderful. I think it would be really useful to have a video about how to think about citations. So many students, even upper-level undergrads, still see citations as about "not stealing ideas" and "giving credit" and that it's something researchers do just to avoid charges of plagiarism--so readers should ignore them. It took me a long time to understand that research articles are conversations, and the citations are how you see that conversation, and follow it back. When you are new to a field, or subtopic in a field, taking some time to use the citations to orient yourself helps you build a schematic so much more quickly.
Thanks a lot for this Benjamin. You often talk about not flooding your brain with new info and giving time for memory consolidation. Is there a maximum number of time / concepts one can efficiently learn in a day? After watching a few of your videos, it seems to me that studying all day is very inefficient as there are too many new things.
How to read and take notes from a review paper(normally with 20 to 30 pages) with a detailed discussion of the topic😢😢😢. Could you please make a video on this.
Thank you to the author for sharing your knowledge and providing a comprehensive perspective on how to read research articles. Video content helps viewers understand the motivation for the study and how to read the results rigorously. This adds value to the research process and ensures a complete understanding of the problem being researched.
Hi Benjamin! Can we apply a similar "why, what happened, how" type of inquiry for learning academic subjects like Sciences?? I have tried to apply a similar line of inquiry while studying, and it really helped me to identify the overall purpose of the chapter but got confused when several variables or topics started interacting in a single chapter... What are the exact questions to ask to solve this type of confusion? Or is it my own limitation in deep processing ability that is making me struggle to understand certain topics..?
I think it definitely applies to the natural sciences, too. In this case, I think confusion is probably a good sign. Most things are complicated and topics interact in interesting - and unexpected! - ways. If you come across something that really confuses you, note it somewhere, so that you can return to it again. Can you break it up into parts and focus on one part for a little while before coming back to the confusing interaction? Can you start over and follow the reasoning from the beginning again? Is there another way of playing out the concept or situation beyond just reading the explanation again - can you simulate something or solve a problem related to it? Can you talk it through with someone else? Is there an easier version of the interaction that you can explore - the "easy cases" or "limit cases"? All of these come to mind as things you might do to help resolve the confusion.
This was a very interesting video, especially as I’m entering my last year of university and looking at dissertations & research. I’ve learnt quite a lot from your video alone and would certainly enjoy seeing more on different types of research.
thank you very useful - in most of my classes understanding papers, designs, methodology will be 20% of a written exam or so and the studies that lecturers see as compulsary for the exam often demand some level of udnerstanding. at first i didnt see it and just memorized an outcome like "the study found that people share more information when texting" and skipped most details like how many groups, makeup of the groups and task they had to perform. But actually you want to understand why they designed the study in a certain why - mostly one of the theories and concepts you learned will be reflected. so fully understanding the studies is a good test for your understanding
REQUEST - As a audience point of view it will be great for us to have a single course in which we able to learn- 1. Most effective ways to reading books 2. How to develop and keep interest for subjects 3. How to keep our mind focused while studying 4. How to make notes for each huge subjects for exam in most effective way 5. Most effective ways to retain information what we read and learn forever ex- If i am Law student where i need to learn so many sections and article numbers for each subjects corresponding to different concepts 6. Most effective ways to testing and revisions. 7. What world top learners understand at core and do which average people dont do and know. Love from India 🙏🏾
Thanks for the request - I'm developing more comprehensive resources at a membership site, which will launch early next year. It'll work kind of like Patreon, but give access to courses, Q&As, that kind of thing. I'll make more announcements in upcoming videos.
I go to Google Scholar for most of my research. But I wouldn't be surprised if there was a better place these days. They have links to free versions of many papers (often, on personal websites or through Researchgate or something). And many more recent journals are publishing open source content, like the Frontiers journals (though there are still lots of journals with paywalls). Scihub and Libgen are sites that post massive numbers of papers that would otherwise be behind paywalls.
Your channel & videos are awesome. Can you make videos on how to read and understand difficult engineering and mathematics textbook in self study mode and understand everything in detail.
I think spoken recall gets your brain running more so better brainstorming and stuff but ofc harder to keep track of things. I think it's best to use both types of recall.
i love this type of content, i'm not studying anything related to social sciences, but i have a lot of passion for these kind of subjects! would love to see more about research
Would love to learn more about memorizing (and applying) facts. For instance, I'm working on memorizing pre-flop hand charts for different positions in No Limit Hold Em. I've done lots of inefficient memorization before, but now that I've been following your channel, I'm a lot more in tune with effective methods and want to keep to that as much as I can. This kind of challenge comes up to me in lots of different ways, not just poker!
Working on a video right now that discusses memorization techniques in the context of studying for classes. It'll offer a couple of different perspectives, but I'm sure there will be more to say. Used to play poker pretty seriously myself. Good luck with the game!
I would use the human skill of visualisation and estimation, some logic and some practice. You could either playaround with some range tools (pokerhandrange). Maybe start with learning what 10% of cards look like and what 50% look like. (guess, then peak and learn). Pay attention to the lower boundaries-you see a player showing a certain hand-find out what would be the minimum % range to include that hand. Later you can model a bit and get a feeling (for example opening the % range often favors many Ax combinations before Kx comes in, but K9 still maybe favoured of A3). Then you make some assumtions about position first for an "average range" player. Later you can think about how playing types and style like tight/agressive may influence that. Generally i would do a lot with a tracking software- to see what real average ranges look like-then take a guess what the cards would be based on "sees flop percentage" and see if you are correct - rinse repeat. You already have good memory "chunks" two work with if you talk about: pairs,face cards,suited,"all type of x cards", then maybe modify it with high,low,middle. You dont need to learn everything at once. You could learn one week just early position hands, next week middle position
reading and listening are great to expose yourself to many words, speaking and writing are great to free recall those words that stuck out to you and cement them. But there's no truly fast way. You have to find things you like doing in the language to make it worth the time.
You can use free recall as a kind of alternative (use blank sheet, remember all that you can on a particular topic). I think that's probably more effective. But IMO, you want to move quickly to what CaptainWumbo suggests - seeing words in context, using them in context.
Love your content brother. I would love to know how to read a textbook or any book ( science based ) because last time when you have an example it was about history one . I would love to have a video on how to read science books example medicine, chemistry, biology, physics etc .
Unfortunately, I do have one coming up but it's also about history. I don't have a good excuse. Just reading lots of history at the moment. 😅 I haven't forgotten about science though! It'll be in the works after this next round of "learning challenge" videos.
@@benjaminkeep Glad to hear that it's coming up . I will be excited to watch but here's a suggestion why don't you add a part about reading biology and science textbooks in the upcoming video.
Hello, Ben. I really appreciate your willingness to tackle the more abstract aspects of leaning. (As opposed to quick "tips") I feel like there is a lot of interest for this and was wondering if you had a more open forum for discussion? Or if you know of such a place? Keep up the great work!
Thanks! I don't know of a place like that, but I aim to create one on my website in the coming year. It will probably also be a place where we run experiments - certainly informal, but possibly formal - and discuss new research findings, implications of those findings, etc. Hoping to bring together students, teachers, and researchers. I would charge a subscription fee for it because I need to make money somehow if I'm going to dedicate a lot of time to it. I don't know if that appeals to people or not, so I'm still exploring the idea.
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I really liked this video I am also watching this video (ruclips.net/video/733m6qBH-jI/видео.html) by Andrew Ng one of the god fathers of machine learning. His method for teaching a person to be a machine learning expert is to read a bunch of papers, replicate them, and try to understand why things aren't replicating which starts to form your understanding and ideas of the topics.
I really like this approach.
This is unrelated but I would really like a video on Generalist learning, knowledge transfer and widely applicable tacit knowledge. I am finding myself at odds with this either I can learn a specific skill and I can only do that skill and not aplicable to other contexts, but sometimes I find myself if I am approaching a learning session or task in a generalist mindset, I find myself forming conections that I seem unusal. An example I found is that some stress patterns of words in poetry "sound" like notes on the guitar. I found that this happens regardless of the difficulty of the learning task. Why do you think that is?
Agreed with Andrew Ng's perspective - trying to replicate what they did in papers (especially in an area where you can write programs tackling the same data) is a fantastic way to deeply understand it.
I will try to tackle transfer at some point. It's a big, messy topic. But there will be some videos attacking it from certain angles coming up. I don't have an answer to your question, but it sounds like you keep your mind very open to new relationships.
I asked a question on this in the last video!! Thank you for this video!!! :D
Your content is always so helpful for trying to get through my own ( undergrad) cognitive science degree :)
it fills me with so much joy everytime I see you in a clip with elmo. In my head canon you have hours of broll talking to stuffed animals.
I'm not sure if it's just head canon...
Would love to see you run a recent study that you find significant through this framework in a video!
You're back!!
😁 Sometimes I just need a break to work on upcoming content. Should be regular uploads for the next couple of months at least.
@@benjaminkeep Very glad to see you back, I learned a lot with this one. I had this question for years, not exaggerating. I feel like I can finally start getting value out of research papers instead of conforming to whatever the media is reporting on (and their biases and agendas).
Thank you!!
Thanks for mentioning my comment, Benjamin! Great content as always!
This is wonderful. I think it would be really useful to have a video about how to think about citations. So many students, even upper-level undergrads, still see citations as about "not stealing ideas" and "giving credit" and that it's something researchers do just to avoid charges of plagiarism--so readers should ignore them. It took me a long time to understand that research articles are conversations, and the citations are how you see that conversation, and follow it back. When you are new to a field, or subtopic in a field, taking some time to use the citations to orient yourself helps you build a schematic so much more quickly.
Completely agree.
Thanks a lot for this Benjamin. You often talk about not flooding your brain with new info and giving time for memory consolidation. Is there a maximum number of time / concepts one can efficiently learn in a day? After watching a few of your videos, it seems to me that studying all day is very inefficient as there are too many new things.
Interesting question
How to read and take notes from a review paper(normally with 20 to 30 pages) with a detailed discussion of the topic😢😢😢. Could you please make a video on this.
Thank you to the author for sharing your knowledge and providing a comprehensive perspective on how to read research articles. Video content helps viewers understand the motivation for the study and how to read the results rigorously. This adds value to the research process and ensures a complete understanding of the problem being researched.
Hi Benjamin!
Can we apply a similar "why, what happened, how" type of inquiry for learning academic subjects like Sciences??
I have tried to apply a similar line of inquiry while studying, and it really helped me to identify the overall purpose of the chapter but got confused when several variables or topics started interacting in a single chapter...
What are the exact questions to ask to solve this type of confusion?
Or is it my own limitation in deep processing ability that is making me struggle to understand certain topics..?
I think it definitely applies to the natural sciences, too. In this case, I think confusion is probably a good sign. Most things are complicated and topics interact in interesting - and unexpected! - ways.
If you come across something that really confuses you, note it somewhere, so that you can return to it again. Can you break it up into parts and focus on one part for a little while before coming back to the confusing interaction? Can you start over and follow the reasoning from the beginning again? Is there another way of playing out the concept or situation beyond just reading the explanation again - can you simulate something or solve a problem related to it? Can you talk it through with someone else? Is there an easier version of the interaction that you can explore - the "easy cases" or "limit cases"? All of these come to mind as things you might do to help resolve the confusion.
@@benjaminkeep Thanks a lot Ben!!✨
Will definitely try and update you with the results!
This was a very interesting video, especially as I’m entering my last year of university and looking at dissertations & research.
I’ve learnt quite a lot from your video alone and would certainly enjoy seeing more on different types of research.
thank you very useful - in most of my classes understanding papers, designs, methodology will be 20% of a written exam or so and the studies that lecturers see as compulsary for the exam often demand some level of udnerstanding.
at first i didnt see it and just memorized an outcome like "the study found that people share more information when texting" and skipped most details like how many groups, makeup of the groups and task they had to perform. But actually you want to understand why they designed the study in a certain why - mostly one of the theories and concepts you learned will be reflected. so fully understanding the studies is a good test for your understanding
100% - people get wrapped up in the results, but the study design (among other things) tells you what those results should mean, if anything.
REQUEST - As a audience point of view it will be great for us to have a single course in which we able to learn-
1. Most effective ways to reading books
2. How to develop and keep interest for subjects
3. How to keep our mind focused while studying
4. How to make notes for each huge subjects for exam in most effective way
5. Most effective ways to retain information what we read and learn forever ex- If i am Law student where i need to learn so many sections and article numbers for each subjects corresponding to different concepts
6. Most effective ways to testing and revisions.
7. What world top learners understand at core and do which average people dont do and know.
Love from India 🙏🏾
Thanks for the request - I'm developing more comprehensive resources at a membership site, which will launch early next year. It'll work kind of like Patreon, but give access to courses, Q&As, that kind of thing. I'll make more announcements in upcoming videos.
Yes please
From where do you get or read papers?
Btw love your content, it's really helpful, keep up the good work
And where can we get FREE papers?
I go to Google Scholar for most of my research. But I wouldn't be surprised if there was a better place these days. They have links to free versions of many papers (often, on personal websites or through Researchgate or something). And many more recent journals are publishing open source content, like the Frontiers journals (though there are still lots of journals with paywalls). Scihub and Libgen are sites that post massive numbers of papers that would otherwise be behind paywalls.
@@benjaminkeep I'll check them out then, tsm
Your channel & videos are awesome. Can you make videos on how to read and understand difficult engineering and mathematics textbook in self study mode and understand everything in detail.
I think spoken recall gets your brain running more so better brainstorming and stuff but ofc harder to keep track of things. I think it's best to use both types of recall.
i love this type of content, i'm not studying anything related to social sciences, but i have a lot of passion for these kind of subjects! would love to see more about research
Please do more research related videos. I appreciate it though 😅
Thanks for covering this!
Please upload more videos!
Great stuff!!
Great content I enjoy it
Great video!
Would love to learn more about memorizing (and applying) facts. For instance, I'm working on memorizing pre-flop hand charts for different positions in No Limit Hold Em. I've done lots of inefficient memorization before, but now that I've been following your channel, I'm a lot more in tune with effective methods and want to keep to that as much as I can. This kind of challenge comes up to me in lots of different ways, not just poker!
Working on a video right now that discusses memorization techniques in the context of studying for classes. It'll offer a couple of different perspectives, but I'm sure there will be more to say. Used to play poker pretty seriously myself. Good luck with the game!
I would use the human skill of visualisation and estimation, some logic and some practice. You could either playaround with some range tools (pokerhandrange).
Maybe start with learning what 10% of cards look like and what 50% look like. (guess, then peak and learn). Pay attention to the lower boundaries-you see a player showing a certain hand-find out what would be the minimum % range to include that hand.
Later you can model a bit and get a feeling (for example opening the % range often favors many Ax combinations before Kx comes in, but K9 still maybe favoured of A3).
Then you make some assumtions about position first for an "average range" player. Later you can think about how playing types and style like tight/agressive may influence that.
Generally i would do a lot with a tracking software- to see what real average ranges look like-then take a guess what the cards would be based on "sees flop percentage" and see if you are correct - rinse repeat.
You already have good memory "chunks" two work with if you talk about: pairs,face cards,suited,"all type of x cards", then maybe modify it with high,low,middle. You dont need to learn everything at once. You could learn one week just early position hands, next week middle position
great content. Can you tell me what is the best method of learning English vocabulary if flashcards are not that good. Thank you.
reading and listening are great to expose yourself to many words, speaking and writing are great to free recall those words that stuck out to you and cement them. But there's no truly fast way. You have to find things you like doing in the language to make it worth the time.
You can use free recall as a kind of alternative (use blank sheet, remember all that you can on a particular topic). I think that's probably more effective. But IMO, you want to move quickly to what CaptainWumbo suggests - seeing words in context, using them in context.
Love your content brother. I would love to know how to read a textbook or any book ( science based ) because last time when you have an example it was about history one . I would love to have a video on how to read science books example medicine, chemistry, biology, physics etc .
Unfortunately, I do have one coming up but it's also about history. I don't have a good excuse. Just reading lots of history at the moment. 😅
I haven't forgotten about science though! It'll be in the works after this next round of "learning challenge" videos.
@@benjaminkeep Glad to hear that it's coming up . I will be excited to watch but here's a suggestion why don't you add a part about reading biology and science textbooks in the upcoming video.
Hello, Ben. I really appreciate your willingness to tackle the more abstract aspects of leaning. (As opposed to quick "tips") I feel like there is a lot of interest for this and was wondering if you had a more open forum for discussion? Or if you know of such a place? Keep up the great work!
Thanks!
I don't know of a place like that, but I aim to create one on my website in the coming year. It will probably also be a place where we run experiments - certainly informal, but possibly formal - and discuss new research findings, implications of those findings, etc. Hoping to bring together students, teachers, and researchers. I would charge a subscription fee for it because I need to make money somehow if I'm going to dedicate a lot of time to it.
I don't know if that appeals to people or not, so I'm still exploring the idea.
@@benjaminkeep Fantastic... keep me posted. Applied Science educator here... I would almost certainly be in.
@@benjaminkeep I would be in, if it were affordable for a teacher. Perhaps a Patreon?
Would love your research analysis on IQ
I should be releasing a video on that in the summer sometime. Definitely been brewing for a while.