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Many of the computing and math courses are enough in my comfort zone that I can readily pick them up on my own. That, coupled with my belief in the future of qu
by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Many of the computing and math courses are enough in my comfort zone that I can readily pick them up on my own. That, coupled with my belief in the future of quantative biology has made me sign up and take a number of chemistry, anatomy, medicine, drug, neuro and genetics courses. About 13 in all but only 2, no more than 3 per block of time which is good. The only outliers are the quantum computing and finance ones.
I've programm(ed|ing) a spaced repitition native app that uses ideas from online sequential learning to challenge me (hah online learning for online learning). I can look at performance graphs per topic area over time. For now it just scores roughly based on text similarity but I've built a parser I can use for the more mathematical ones. By the end of a couple of courses it should be a very interesting project. It currently additionally allows for searching and note taking but I noticed when I go over my notes I tend to go back and forth on certain concepts so I will implement a history concept and automatic topic map building (using both cookie trails and measures of similarity). An unintentional side effect due to Markdown support and html generation is that it generates something like a wiki but far easier.
- pitt1980 14y agoIf someone came up with a good spaced repition app for retaining the learning from all these online classes, I'd be happy to pay $20 - 30 for something like that (market survey of 1)
- Dn_Ab 14y agoIt's very important to me that I retain the information so I'm testing this on myself. My motivation is not monetary though. My approach is inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Craig_(Jeopardy!_contestant)#Preparation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Craig_(Jeopardy!_contesta...
- pitt1980 14y agoyeah, I read about that in http://www.amazon.com/Final-Jeopardy-Machine-Quest-Everything/dp/0547483163/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342527569&sr=8-1&keywords=Final+Jeopardy%3A+Man+Vs.+Machine+and+the+Quest+to+Know+Everything http://www.amazon.com/Final-Jeopardy-Machine-Quest-Everythin... I'm not enough of a hacker yet to actually do that myself
- ramblerman 14y agoAnki is open source, runs on all platforms. And is imho amazing
- huherto 14y agoI have already taken 5 courses and I was thinking the same.
- eddie_the_head 14y agoHi, do you have an email I could reach you with? Your profile is empty.