Incremental Learning
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Incremental Learning
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#2I never heard people advocating for this approach (people like Michael Nielsen and alike). Anyone is in reseach and had a positive experience with it?
It makes sense that context-independent SRS are not suited for incremental reading, so I wonder what's stopping from this approach filling the gap. Is it solely pricing issue?
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#3What actually is incremental learning?
The 'What is Incremental Learning?' section seems deliberately poorly written.
Incremental learning is the fastest and the most comprehensive way of learning available to students at the moment of writing (2013).
Incremental learning is a consolidation of computer-based techniques that accelerate and optimize the process of learning from all conceivable material available in electronic form, and not only.
Currently, SuperMemo is the only software that implements incremental learning. In SuperMemo, the student feeds the program with all forms of learning material and/or data (texts, pictures, videos, sounds, etc.). Those learning materials are then gradually converted into durable knowledge that can last a lifetime.Re: Incremental Learning
#4Anki (http://ankisrs.net/ and https://ankiweb.net/about) is what I'm familiar with. All versions are freely available except the iOS version ($25). I use it to memorize all sorts of things, including phone numbers (something I used to do as a kid before mobile phones), birthdays, vocabulary (English and other languages), and poetry.
Reading a book and then taking a walk is a form of incremental learning. Reading a page and pausing to question yourself about what you just read is incremental learning (see Make It Stick: the science of successful learning, by Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel, 2014).
SuperMemo is one way to go about it, but it seems like icing on a readily-available cake.
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#5I never heard people advocating for this approach (people like Michael Nielsen and alike). Anyone is in reseach and had a positive experience with it? It makes sense that context-independent SRS are not suited for incremental reading, so I wonder what's stopping from this approach filling the gap. Is it solely pricing issue?
Books I have read [1,2,3] have all discussed the "incremental learning" approach without calling it that. They frame it in the context of daily repetitions of the material in order to gradually solidify it in your mind and commit it to longer-term memory. However, their approach goes well beyond that and explores many additional factors that play into the learning process as well.
The fact remains, in order to learn ANYTHING, there are no "tricks" for most of us. It takes effort, engagement, focus, self-discipline, commitment, and consistent application of the material, call it repetition whatever.
I have not found any short-cuts and while there may be techniques that might help with memorization (mnemonics and phonetics etc) your brain is dependent upon the amount of rest you get, the quality of your diet, the degree to which your brain is not under external stress while it is engaged in learning and a desire and willingness to be engaged with your topic, IMO.
[1] The Science of Self-learning, Hollins, Peter ISBN: 978-1731416735 (Although Hollins goes into more detail around how to read, self-discipline etc.)
[2] The Self-Learning Blueprint, Hollins, Peter ISBN: 978-1077241275 (This book, from the same author in [1] is completely different in that he addresses the 4 pillars of learning: Transform and Synthesize Knowledge, Combine the New with the Familiar, Self-testing and Retrieval, and Absorption)
[3] Teach Yourself How to Learn, MacGuire et al, ISBN: 978-1620367568 (This book treats metacognition, positive emotions and motivation as the cornerstones of Learning)
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#6What actually is incremental learning? The 'What is Incremental Learning?' section seems deliberately poorly written. Incremental learning is the fastest and the most comprehensive way of learning available to students at the moment of writing (2013). Incremental learning is a consolidation of computer-based techniques that accelerate and optimize the process of learning from all conceivable material available in ele…
I’m not sure, but learning is certainly more than remembering things. Years ago I spent a lot of time typing CS things into Anki and practicing their recall. Eventually I realised that I didn’t really have a good understanding of half the things I was memorising.
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#7I keep a few math books and a variety of dual-language paperbacks in the bathroom. It's become a really important part of my intellectual diet.
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#8What actually is incremental learning? The 'What is Incremental Learning?' section seems deliberately poorly written. Incremental learning is the fastest and the most comprehensive way of learning available to students at the moment of writing (2013). Incremental learning is a consolidation of computer-based techniques that accelerate and optimize the process of learning from all conceivable material available in ele…
It's a system for automating learning.
You have thirty books. Instead of taking a month for each book, getting value sequentially, you read all thirty books at the same time, with the software splitting it up for you into tiny pieces, so you can soak them all in and get lots of knowledge simultaneously, rather than the sort of limited, controlled drip of knowledge from an individual work.
It's surprisingly useful for things like language learning, where you don't really start with much understanding but books intend for your ability to change while reading; that said, the author uses it for everything he consumes, even email.
It's pretty interesting, if you're of the belief that knowledge compounds, or if you just don't really have the patience or attention span for individual works. Certainly isn't for everyone, and if you aren't willing to make your own tooling, the existing tooling is pretty bad.
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#9Add some horizontal padding to the page:
1. Right-click, 'inspect'
2. Click on the 'console' tab in the newly opened inspection pane
3. Paste the following into the input field:
document.getElementById('bodyContent').style = 'margin: 0 15%;'
4. Click 'Enter' or 'Return'
PS: This isn't permanent. Doing a page refresh gets rid of it.
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#10What actually is incremental learning? The 'What is Incremental Learning?' section seems deliberately poorly written. Incremental learning is the fastest and the most comprehensive way of learning available to students at the moment of writing (2013). Incremental learning is a consolidation of computer-based techniques that accelerate and optimize the process of learning from all conceivable material available in ele…
It's a system for automating learning. You have thirty books. Instead of taking a month for each book, getting value sequentially, you read all thirty books at the same time, with the software splitting it up for you into tiny pieces, so you can soak them all in and get lots of knowledge simultaneously, rather than the sort of limited, controlled drip of knowledge from an individual work. It's surprisingly useful for…
This made me wonder, which languages would be best learned together. Probably a pairing like Italian, French, Spanish would work well, as they're all Latin languages.
Or perhaps it would be better to pair some languages which have defining differences.