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Quantum Computing for the very Curious

26 points by Jakob 6y ago

Jakob 6y ago
This article uses spaced-repetition. I haven’t seen that in an article before.
- alentodorov 6y ago
  Nicky Case also does it in the most delightful way — https://ncase.me/remember/ https://ncase.me/remember/
sgdpk 6y ago
This was discussed just two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23561018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23561018
formalsystem 6y ago
While I definitely appreciate the existence of pretty and accessible books like this, I wonder how effective spaced repetition is. If the end goal is testing the rate of retaining information then I definitely agree that spaced repetition is great. However, my take is that people that have mastered subjects are the ones that can create stuff with that information so I believe the goal of "education" should be to graduate people to creators as soon as possible. Instead of flashcards why not graduate people to messing around with a quantum simulator. I'm not even sure how important memory is these days. As far as I'm concerned some of the best educators out today are the Zachtronics and the Factorio devs. I hope more people follow in their footsteps.
- alentodorov 6y ago
  quantum.country is actually a study in the effectiveness of spaced repetition. Andy and Michael have documented the results from Quantum Country here — https://numinous.productions/ttft/ https://numinous.productions/ttft/
  - alentodorov 6y ago
    Andy goes into even deeper detail of the need of having Executable Books in order to enable learning — https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z2UKZTkAbLUKR85d92gqB7ahoxcS2tpB2ah2?stackedNotes=z244xx3kMf1v8UnkZKUwQBAwBsHLpUgN4YhsG https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z2UKZTkAbLUKR85d92gqB7ahoxcS...
gandalfgeek 6y ago
Authors explain background and motivation for spaced repetition and mnemonic media in this extensive article. May be helpful if you're seriously getting into this. https://numinous.productions/ttft/ https://numinous.productions/ttft/
Bluestein 6y ago
Came in for the content, stayed for the article's format, which is quite something. Interactive, and using spaced repetition as a built-in. You can tell a lot of work has gone into this.

26 points by Jakob 6y ago

Jakob 6y ago

This article uses spaced-repetition. I haven’t seen that in an article before.

alentodorov 6y ago
Nicky Case also does it in the most delightful way — https://ncase.me/remember/ https://ncase.me/remember/

sgdpk 6y ago

This was discussed just two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23561018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23561018

formalsystem 6y ago

While I definitely appreciate the existence of pretty and accessible books like this, I wonder how effective spaced repetition is. If the end goal is testing the rate of retaining information then I definitely agree that spaced repetition is great. However, my take is that people that have mastered subjects are the ones that can create stuff with that information so I believe the goal of "education" should be to graduate people to creators as soon as possible. Instead of flashcards why not graduate people to messing around with a quantum simulator. I'm not even sure how important memory is these days. As far as I'm concerned some of the best educators out today are the Zachtronics and the Factorio devs. I hope more people follow in their footsteps.

alentodorov 6y ago
quantum.country is actually a study in the effectiveness of spaced repetition. Andy and Michael have documented the results from Quantum Country here — https://numinous.productions/ttft/ https://numinous.productions/ttft/
- alentodorov 6y ago
  Andy goes into even deeper detail of the need of having Executable Books in order to enable learning — https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z2UKZTkAbLUKR85d92gqB7ahoxcS2tpB2ah2?stackedNotes=z244xx3kMf1v8UnkZKUwQBAwBsHLpUgN4YhsG https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z2UKZTkAbLUKR85d92gqB7ahoxcS...

gandalfgeek 6y ago

Authors explain background and motivation for spaced repetition and mnemonic media in this extensive article. May be helpful if you're seriously getting into this. https://numinous.productions/ttft/ https://numinous.productions/ttft/

Bluestein 6y ago

Came in for the content, stayed for the article's format, which is quite something. Interactive, and using spaced repetition as a built-in. You can tell a lot of work has gone into this.