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Interactive Mind Map for learning

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Re: Interactive Mind Map for learning

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Post by phoenixProgram »

this is why capitalism is such a worthless system run by worthless people who should be starved to death. people like the jews who are life unworthy of life, who should be starved to death

this is worthless. it is absolutely worthless

telling people it is good for anything is stupid

you should tell people that if they want to learn anything, they are on their own, and furthermore there is a ton of anti-learning that they will have to fight off before they can learn anything

we live in a culture that hates learning because the jews hate people who learn anything. the jews hate it when people learn things. they hate people who learn things. hatred of people who work hard and have knowledge is the hallmark of the jews. they are disgusting horrible bugs who hate people who try to learn anything

the jews are disgusting horrible bugs who hate people who try to learn anything

Re: Interactive Mind Map for learning

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Post by itissid »

One suggestion on helping people remember better. The emojis are ambiguous. Like I cannot remember the difference between the 2 book icons. I suggest make them the same with a $ sign on the paid one, Or better $ flying out of a book for a paid ebook.

IMHO people learn better with pictures that are vivid, would you remember something better if I attached it to the word "elephant" vs "an elephant with a pink underwear"?

Re: Interactive Mind Map for learning

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Post by garysieling »

neurocroc wrote: post #24
diziet wrote: post #16

In my opinion, Mind Maps are not great for organizing information, learning things or keeping track of things. Notice how the Github read-me itself is formed like a Table of Contents. Table of Contents (or other organized lists) are better for organizing your information and placing it in thematically similar topics, etc. In cases where you're presenting or recalling information, the more linear narrative of a Table…

Author of the project here. I do agree with you that mind maps have their flaws and limitations. But I found most curated list and most content in general to be quite rigid in structure. These mind maps should let the users explore and be guided through arrows. And the big problem that I find is that google and other search engines are a black box. You have to know what you want to ask for to get an answer. The poses…

Have you explored taking links from Wikipedia and adding them into your visualization? It might be interesting considering most articles have resources at the bottom.

Re: Interactive Mind Map for learning

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Post by neurocroc »

garysieling wrote: post #45
neurocroc wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Author of the project here. I do agree with you that mind maps have their flaws and limitations. But I found most curated list and most content in general to be quite rigid in structure. These mind maps should let the users explore and be guided through arrows. And the big problem that I find is that google and other search engines are a black box. You have to know what you want to ask for to get an answer. The poses…

Have you explored taking links from Wikipedia and adding them into your visualization? It might be interesting considering most articles have resources at the bottom.

I do link to wikipedia articles on nearly all nodes. I just expand it with more learning resources after. I think wikipedia is always a great starting point for learning about any subject. Or you meant something else?

Re: Interactive Mind Map for learning

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Post by garysieling »

neurocroc wrote: post #35
jmstfv wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But how do you choose which resources (books, articles, courses..) to include? Is it performed algorithmically or by hand? I was working on the similar project (dependency trees for concepts) and the biggest roadblock I faced was the addition of new resources, since it is laborious, doesn't scale well and is pretty subjective.

Currently the entirety of the mind map was hand picked and curated by me. I did use the internet a lot though as there are quite many threads online that have recommendations on what the 'best ways of learning X' is. I also try to ask help from other people, ideally experts in their fields on how to best structure the content. Mathematics one is quite challenging just because everything is really so connected as far…

I've had pretty good success crowdsourcing recommendations for https://www.findlectures.com by asking offering a weekly email of talks, and prompting people for recommended speakers / conferences on sign-up.

I have a separate form on the site to get suggestions, but the email signup one has better quality because it weed out people who want to spam the site with their own content.

Re: Interactive Mind Map for learning

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Post by neurocroc »

garysieling wrote: post #47
neurocroc wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Currently the entirety of the mind map was hand picked and curated by me. I did use the internet a lot though as there are quite many threads online that have recommendations on what the 'best ways of learning X' is. I also try to ask help from other people, ideally experts in their fields on how to best structure the content. Mathematics one is quite challenging just because everything is really so connected as far…

I've had pretty good success crowdsourcing recommendations for https://www.findlectures.com by asking offering a weekly email of talks, and prompting people for recommended speakers / conferences on sign-up. I have a separate form on the site to get suggestions, but the email signup one has better quality because it weed out people who want to spam the site with their own content.

Hey Gary, I love what you have done with find lectures. I use it quite often actually to find material. I am thinking of perhaps making a newsletter for this project saying 'what is new' in the mind map. What do you think?

Re: Interactive Mind Map for learning

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Post by ralmeida »

diziet wrote: post #16

In my opinion, Mind Maps are not great for organizing information, learning things or keeping track of things. Notice how the Github read-me itself is formed like a Table of Contents. Table of Contents (or other organized lists) are better for organizing your information and placing it in thematically similar topics, etc. In cases where you're presenting or recalling information, the more linear narrative of a Table…

Mind Maps are definitely not a great way to be a 'canonical store' of information, but that does not mean that they are useless at all.

I find them to be great at brainstorming, for example. Dumping several related aspects of a project into the mind map feels very intuitive to me, no overhead involved at all. And it eases the cognitive load of several concepts floating around your subconscious and taking up your brain CPU.

For learning, I plain disagree with you. I even see your point that information may be better 'first presented' to a learner in other ways (although I've had good experiences with mind maps being a 'discovery' tools as well). However, learning has other moments other than the discovery. Mind maps are great at teaching how concepts fit together, and also good as a studying tool in the recall moment (rather than linear notes).

You may also view them as an 'index' to information presented elsewhere. Once a book was posted here on HN which had a 'graph of chapter dependencies' inside the book, which people loved. A graph of chapter dependencies is at least very close to a mind map.

By the way, since you mentioned UDC and DDC, even library science and information science courses do teach mind maps as tools as well. Because they have their uses, even if you know UDC or DDC.

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