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People are different, the processes in their minds goes different ways. People develops different styles of learning and then they adopt to that styles and adop
by ordu 8y ago
People are different, the processes in their minds goes different ways. People develops different styles of learning and then they adopt to that styles and adopt styles for themselves. So it is pointless to agree or disagree.
I personally like this idea of vim+LaTeX. It is close to what I did while studying math, though I write notes down with pen and paper. Mostly I wrote down them once and read them once before exam.
I remember some issues with this approach, but the one I remember most was due to incomplete recording, not due to "I didn't managed to understand this mess of greek letters while listening a lecture".
I remember some problems due to inability to understand, it was Galua theory, but I solved them by reading books. I had read three different authors on topic, and I think it was the only way, I think that any style of keeping records would not help more then mine.
And I hate to write greek letters by hand. There is one names xi, I never managed to figure out how to write it, so xi looked in my recordings as some messy knot of lines. All my xi's was different, but there was a bright side of this: xi was the only one, that was so messy, so I could understand that it is xi when I saw this mess. With LaTex xi looks nice and clear.
- wholinator2 8y agoOn the point of writing greek letters and symbols I've taken to practicing a Greek letter possibly hundreds of times when I first encounter it. Just write it, write it, and write it again. At first it's just to understand how my hand has to move to write it efficiently, then I move on to attempting to write precisely. Finally, I write it over and over pushing myself to get it to the speed at which it will not interrupt the rest of the notes when it happens. This approach has be wildly successful for me and while it does take some time it is always time well spent. Recently, I ran into § and just had to figure it out. Honestly, I was out of my depth in the Wikipedia article and I don't even know what it represents. It was fun, though.
- coliveira 8y ago> I ran into § This is the symbol for section, it means that a new section is starting, or it may be a reference to a section number.
- adrianrocamora 8y agoI agree that Greek might not be the best for people with a different linguistic background. By the way, did you mean Galois Theory? If it's OK to ask, what other languages do you speak mainly besides English?
- ordu 8y agoYes, I meant Galois Theory. I speak russian, and 'Galua' just letter-per-letter transcription from russian spelling.
- adrianrocamora 8y agoAh, cool. Funny thing, in Chinese Einstein uses the character for "love" [ai] also because it's a phonetic approximation.
- gonzus 8y agoIf you read that out loud as if it were Spanish, it would sound like the original French pronunciation for Galois. So, good job! :-)
- ordu 8y agoRussian spelling is mostly phonetic. It tries to keep the idea of spelling that word is a program for sound making machine, which knows nothing about pronunciation of a particular word, just follow simple rules for interpreting letters. As I understand, Spanish is much like this, it keeps spelling simple. If so, then there are nothing surprising that transliteration from cyrillic into latin make sense from Spanish point of view.
- Perseids 8y agoI wholeheartedly agree on the "People are different" part. I for one am never able to process information and write it down. It's always either thinking about the content or "copying down curvy lines that purposely mean something". The worst lectures for me were when the teacher / professor forced us to copy down the lectures, even though they had perfect lecture preparations they could have just uploaded online. Or teachers that gave us the homework of copying down these pages of vocabularies because "only then you will remember them". If you remember only one thing about teaching: There are multitudes of learning styles and only a minority of students will have similar ones than you. Probably, the (as I imagine) magical experience of remembering after writing something down is so intense that it is hard to let that feeling go and let others have their different styles. Edit: Xi was the worst for me, too. I think the standard letter form as portrayed in print does not lend itself to quick handwriting. Also, if I compare how much time is spend in elementary school teaching how to efficiently write the Latin alphabet to how there is no introduction in university regarding the Greek alphabet (except if you are lucky a complete table with their pronunciation), it is almost ludicrous. Yes, we are all adults at that point in time, but for some reason I still didn't get the idea to google for "how to write greek letters efficiently" back then [1][2]. [1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+write+greek+letters+efficiently&t=ffsb&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+write+greek+letters+efficie... [2] https://www.foundalis.com/lan/hw/grkhandw.htm https://www.foundalis.com/lan/hw/grkhandw.htm
- oarabbus_ 8y agoResearch shows handwritten notes to generally be far superior to typed notes for memory and retention https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret-don-t-take-notes-with-a-laptop/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret... So while there are certainly some people who are better with digital notes it is absolutely not " pointless to agree or disagree."