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Wow, I'm astonished how this seems such a good and unchallenged idea to you, guys! And you guys were so fond of the 'Teach yourself programming in 10 years' the

by huffer 17y ago

Wow, I'm astonished how this seems such a good and unchallenged idea to you, guys! And you guys were so fond of the 'Teach yourself programming in 10 years' the other day... There is an inverse linear dependency between the speed of swallowing information and how deep it penetrates your skull... I mean, the (good) lecture already contains a great concentration of information and knowledge that you need to thoroughly review (ideally from different angles while throwing in additional info and reason of your own). Playing Defense Towers etc. while you're listening to a lecture? I understand that this technique is the cure for that but really, if you started by viewing the lectures while playing, my assessment is that you were not taking things seriously. And the whole idea that creeps out is that you're on a lecture-viewing marathon, trying to beat some sort of record... You know, sometimes less is more...

ZeroGravitas 17y ago
It's often claimed by speed-readers that the faster you take in the info the more you understand, because you get to a point where you have a cohesive overview faster. I've never heard anyone claim that slower intake was necessarily better and if it was then you'd be able to use the same technique to slow down a lecture to take twice as long.
- huffer 17y ago
  A fast overview of the information laid out before you can mean indeed that you can grasp some high-level concepts before you loose your focus within the details. But it can mean no more than a summary, and maybe it can give you the intuition of where to focus more for the details (depending on the context and your personal approach); but this is usually limited to a very small segment of the presented info. On the other hand, when I meant 'slow' I was not referring to the mechanics of the video, I was referring to the pace of acquiring the information, the meaning behind the spoken words/images succession. I think the fast-paced reception of the information can lead only to an illusion of understanding; pausing the video from time to time in order to look up for more information elsewhere, rewinding some sections, etc. were closer to what I had in mind, not the slowing down of the video, as you apparently understood. I'm sorry I was not clear enough the first time, I hope now I mended my argument a little...

by huffer 17y ago

ZeroGravitas 17y ago

It's often claimed by speed-readers that the faster you take in the info the more you understand, because you get to a point where you have a cohesive overview faster. I've never heard anyone claim that slower intake was necessarily better and if it was then you'd be able to use the same technique to slow down a lecture to take twice as long.

huffer 17y ago
A fast overview of the information laid out before you can mean indeed that you can grasp some high-level concepts before you loose your focus within the details. But it can mean no more than a summary, and maybe it can give you the intuition of where to focus more for the details (depending on the context and your personal approach); but this is usually limited to a very small segment of the presented info. On the other hand, when I meant 'slow' I was not referring to the mechanics of the video, I was referring to the pace of acquiring the information, the meaning behind the spoken words/images succession. I think the fast-paced reception of the information can lead only to an illusion of understanding; pausing the video from time to time in order to look up for more information elsewhere, rewinding some sections, etc. were closer to what I had in mind, not the slowing down of the video, as you apparently understood. I'm sorry I was not clear enough the first time, I hope now I mended my argument a little...