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In which way can resources lead people astray? It sounds kinda weird. I thought a resource has topics whereby it sets its focus. Is it cause they expected sth

In which way can resources lead people astray? It sounds kinda weird. I thought a resource has topics whereby it sets its focus. Is it cause they expected sth else from the resource? Was the focus unexpected? Is the content wrong? Not useful for certain problems? Is it cause it repeats sth learnt already?

hsikka 9y ago
Yep, all of the above, I think that especially when someone is trying to learn something relatively foreign to them, they don't yet have the ability to navigate a lot of the nuances of focus or content that a more experienced learner in that field can parse more quickly. It's sort of the same interaction that we have when we ask advice or pointers from others in real life who have done something we want to do. We want to optimize our path by building off their knowledge and understand what to focus on , what not to focus on. I'm trying to bring that interaction to scale, though I hopefully will do a better job as this goes on
- DelightOne 9y ago
  And what you focus on is to be determined by who votes for what? And that over the whole Topic of Computer Science but you probably know what I mean. Lets say you create a Theory Hierarchy like learn-anything.xyz. Is the vote in a collection supposed to mean the most useful order in which to learn the given Theory in the Theory Collection? Or is it what is the most interesting for the educated? What is the upvote supposed to mean here? Is the Software also to navigate alternatives to a Theory? How would you handle different focuses? What if a Book handles two Theories both located in a Theory Collection? Will it be in both Theory Strands(collection of alternatives for a Theory)? I‘m interested in this too. Regards.
  - hsikka 9y ago
    My friend, these are incredible insights I honestly haven't got the chance to consider deeply yet. I'll get back to you asap

hsikka 9y ago

Yep, all of the above, I think that especially when someone is trying to learn something relatively foreign to them, they don't yet have the ability to navigate a lot of the nuances of focus or content that a more experienced learner in that field can parse more quickly. It's sort of the same interaction that we have when we ask advice or pointers from others in real life who have done something we want to do. We want to optimize our path by building off their knowledge and understand what to focus on , what not to focus on. I'm trying to bring that interaction to scale, though I hopefully will do a better job as this goes on

DelightOne 9y ago
And what you focus on is to be determined by who votes for what? And that over the whole Topic of Computer Science but you probably know what I mean. Lets say you create a Theory Hierarchy like learn-anything.xyz. Is the vote in a collection supposed to mean the most useful order in which to learn the given Theory in the Theory Collection? Or is it what is the most interesting for the educated? What is the upvote supposed to mean here? Is the Software also to navigate alternatives to a Theory? How would you handle different focuses? What if a Book handles two Theories both located in a Theory Collection? Will it be in both Theory Strands(collection of alternatives for a Theory)? I‘m interested in this too. Regards.
- hsikka 9y ago
  My friend, these are incredible insights I honestly haven't got the chance to consider deeply yet. I'll get back to you asap