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>Did anyone else expect us to have something better by now? Yes, and we have it. Its called general internet. You can pretty much learn advanced topics with th

>Did anyone else expect us to have something better by now? Yes, and we have it. Its called general internet. You can pretty much learn advanced topics with the source material online. ChatGPT has made it easier to research. Even back in early 2010s when I was finishing my masters, I would often just google things online and find random webpages that explain the concepts better than professors could. The biggest issue with learning is motivation, which you cannot put into people. If someone is motivated to do something, he/she will learn. Handholding someone doesn't really do anything in the long run.

frontman1988 3y ago
Searching the internet for decent material is a pain point. Wikipedia gets too complex, stackoverflow like forums don't exist for all fields, books are not freely available. Great courses from standard/mit are also not always available. Many other courses are behind paywalls. We can certainly aspire to better the status quo for open sourcing education at least to a basic graduation level of all major subjects.
- ActorNightly 3y ago
  >Wikipedia gets too complex And yet again, this proves my point. If wikipedia is too complex, that means you are not motivated to actually learn. The way to learn is experimentation. Modern day computers are great for this, from computer science to physics. If you read a wikipedia article and have a lot of questions, you re-read it, stop at the first thing that doesn't make sense, then go research that, or take something like a program, or a formula, implement it on the computer, and start trying it out. What people want is handholding, i.e they see certain words, hear certain sounds, perform certain predefined set of actions, and somehow magically gain the knowledge. Thats not how learning actually works.

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>Did anyone else expect us to have something better by now? Yes, and we have it. Its called general internet. You can pretty much learn advanced topics with th

by ActorNightly 3y ago

frontman1988 3y ago
Searching the internet for decent material is a pain point. Wikipedia gets too complex, stackoverflow like forums don't exist for all fields, books are not freely available. Great courses from standard/mit are also not always available. Many other courses are behind paywalls. We can certainly aspire to better the status quo for open sourcing education at least to a basic graduation level of all major subjects.
- ActorNightly 3y ago
  >Wikipedia gets too complex And yet again, this proves my point. If wikipedia is too complex, that means you are not motivated to actually learn. The way to learn is experimentation. Modern day computers are great for this, from computer science to physics. If you read a wikipedia article and have a lot of questions, you re-read it, stop at the first thing that doesn't make sense, then go research that, or take something like a program, or a formula, implement it on the computer, and start trying it out. What people want is handholding, i.e they see certain words, hear certain sounds, perform certain predefined set of actions, and somehow magically gain the knowledge. Thats not how learning actually works.