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- ...exciting way to learn math, is to ask why I personally am not the best at math. There are a couple of responses to this: ...time doing math (mid 2018 to mid 2019); in all the other years of my life, math has not been a singular focus for me.2 KB (399 words) - 08:51, 9 June 2020
- Some pages about how to use [[Anki]] to study math:174 bytes (25 words) - 19:34, 11 May 2021
- * [[Combinatorial explosion in math]] * [[Video games allow immediate exploration]], whereas [[tinkering in math requires loading the situation into working memory]]482 bytes (58 words) - 00:42, 17 July 2021
- What would a "[[vow of silence]]" look like for math? Maybe we can't take the vow literally, but could instead do a thing where A math game could have a similar thing where everything is just mechanics that get575 bytes (89 words) - 01:00, 17 July 2021
- ...leted in under a minute). Can a series of such small tasks be deployed for math, in a way that leads to deep understanding? [[Tinkering in math requires loading the situation into working memory]]2 KB (319 words) - 04:11, 8 November 2021
- * [[Duolingo for math]]219 bytes (27 words) - 00:46, 17 July 2021
- ...'this Braidness'' into teaching math? One challenge is that [[tinkering in math requires loading the situation into working memory]]. ...ntations of mathematical objects is a blocker for an exploratory medium of math]].908 bytes (133 words) - 00:43, 17 July 2021
- ...a which seems totally out of left field. When such "moves" are possible in math, that means the space of potential moves you could make when trying to solv837 bytes (146 words) - 20:31, 30 March 2021
- ...bjects are presented to you and you can immediately interact with them. In math, the objects are ''described'' on a piece of paper, but that description is One problem with "[[Duolingo for math]]" is that in math, if you want to think about a problem or a theorem or whatever, you often n1 KB (232 words) - 00:40, 17 July 2021
- If we want something like a [[Braid for math]], one blocker is that the same mathematical object might have completely d * [[Michael Nielsen]]'s tweet about how a substantial portion of math is about going back and forth between different ways of thinking about an o1 KB (175 words) - 02:27, 28 March 2021
- #redirect [[Video games comparison to math]]44 bytes (6 words) - 20:31, 30 March 2021
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- ...hypothesis for math education''' states that when thinking about an ideal math education, there will be various interventions that each add value, instead ...single thing that will dramatically improve people's ability to understand math: you just add in more and more of these things, and they each help, and at1 KB (188 words) - 21:59, 6 May 2021
- ...eems like a much more difficult problem to talk about. Why exclude contest math? mainly because the problems there seem boring to me.) ==how is math a "highly developed field"?==10 KB (1,729 words) - 18:37, 25 October 2021
- #REDIRECT [[Deliberate practice for learning proof-based math]]63 bytes (7 words) - 00:18, 25 October 2021
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- For math, see [https://machinelearning.subwiki.org/wiki/User:IssaRice my ML Subwiki572 bytes (84 words) - 21:22, 19 March 2021
- ...ns". So then what is going on, at the level of probability theory/bayesian math/whatever? * Uncommon, but well-supported, scientific knowledge or math;7 KB (1,087 words) - 22:52, 8 February 2021
- ...es, where first you realize something is a problem, then you convert it to math, then you solve it in unbounded form (i.e. given unlimited computation), th21 KB (3,254 words) - 11:00, 26 February 2022
- ** "Math and deep insights (especially probability) can be powerful relative to tren2 KB (272 words) - 01:33, 13 May 2020
- | Writing down answers on a piece of paper || For certain cards like kanji or math formulas, write down the answer on a piece of paper and then compare with t ...A->B, (A,B)->C. || I didn't end up liking this style of card for proofs in math, but I know some people who do it extensively (e.g. [[Paul Raymond-Robichau3 KB (530 words) - 01:46, 16 July 2021
- ...check consistency with a theorem's assumptions, and so on. When I'm doing math, I often have multiple high level strategies/ideas about what to do, but th2 KB (414 words) - 00:51, 17 July 2021
- In math courses, many people already LaTeX their problem sets, so there isn't even2 KB (365 words) - 01:19, 30 June 2020
- ...ble to point to some successful formalizations of things, like formalizing math, or formalizing computation. But there is a [[selection effect]] here becau746 bytes (115 words) - 20:41, 12 April 2021
- ...rbitrary objects that appear in mathematics. An extremely common move in a math proof is to say "Let x be an arbitrary element of X" where X is some class * the explorables in https://explorabl.es/math/2 KB (277 words) - 00:46, 17 July 2021
- ...e media|Explorable explanations have an assumption of finiteness]]. But in math, you most often deal with ''arbitrary'' objects of a class, infinities of v * [[Video games comparison to math]]2 KB (320 words) - 19:00, 3 July 2022
- ...eness result that doesn't have a name, or the one from Stillwell's reverse math book about infinite binary trees). If I had a name for proofs, then I might3 KB (620 words) - 01:06, 17 July 2021
- ...o is to try to split decks by the subject matter. so you have one deck for math, one for history, one for random facts, etc. but i think this is a mistake! these rules lead me to have separate decks for math problems (want to space longer, and don't want to see mistakes), incrementa3 KB (569 words) - 18:19, 8 June 2023
- I think a key difficulty of mathematics is "[[Combinatorial explosion in math|combinatorial explosion]]" or the problem of alternatives. e.g. if a proof ...\varphi</math>. So, <math>T \vdash L \leftrightarrow (\Box L \to \varphi)</math>. Previously, I think it was somewhat mysterious to me why I should diagona2 KB (379 words) - 23:54, 26 March 2021
- a way to memorize characterizations/equivalent properties in math — make them ''all'' related to a single "canonical" property, then make s1 KB (204 words) - 21:04, 23 March 2021
- ...things i should make to help me with the main deal. This is possible with math, but i'm not sure how to do this with [[AI safety]] (it's not like there's ...like how andrew wiles says that having a bad memory is important for doing math, so that you forget how you got stuck so that you can do things a little di8 KB (1,497 words) - 00:01, 2 August 2021
- ...current (originally April 2020; updated March 2021) views on 3Blue1Brown's math videos: ...eos contain real math, not the kinds of fake math that you see in a lot of math/physics popularizations. (so to give an example, i think numberphile is muc3 KB (578 words) - 12:43, 7 February 2022
- ...y to re-derive everything from scratch. When someone explains something in math really well, or comes up with a novel way to explain something, I'm glad th ...time in math. But another reply is that someone could "spoil" something in math even further by explaining how they came up with the answer. In that case,4 KB (672 words) - 22:18, 3 August 2020
- ...sing Anki, I've thought a lot about how to turn a piece of text (such as a math textbook or online essay) into an Anki card. Some texts are much more ankif1 KB (229 words) - 21:10, 13 December 2020
- ...e was a survey done to mathematicians, where we could test which pieces of math they knew well on-demand and which ones they didn't know. ...e interested in some "mainline" responses, like, if i'm trying to become a math researcher, how well should i understand analysis/linear algebra/etc? this1 KB (209 words) - 01:03, 17 July 2021
- ...problems which aren't worth solving over and over. (By "problems", I mean math problems, i.e. the exercise or theorem statement or whatever.)3 KB (466 words) - 23:46, 22 May 2020
- over time, i've come to make my math anki cards much bigger than a simple query, where i actually have to write1 KB (193 words) - 01:39, 23 July 2021
- i just turned off lapse steps for math problems deck — now when i get something wrong, it stays as a "learned" c2 KB (318 words) - 01:09, 17 July 2021
- * Some math books are good at putting things like "(why?)" to mark non-trivial inferent ...thing i like about khan academy (which i was watching a lot to prepare for math HL tutoring): sal keeps saying "and if you feel so inclined, i encourage yo1 KB (229 words) - 00:07, 16 May 2020
- ...exciting way to learn math, is to ask why I personally am not the best at math. There are a couple of responses to this: ...time doing math (mid 2018 to mid 2019); in all the other years of my life, math has not been a singular focus for me.2 KB (399 words) - 08:51, 9 June 2020
- # Write up the proof as an [[Anki]] card, adding it to the "Math problems (only for new cards)" deck. It's important to [[add the complete p ...cards for the day). (This also helps because now all the cards in the main math problems deck will be not-new, which means burying them will work as expect3 KB (527 words) - 01:08, 17 July 2021
- ...st, i think buck/paul has said something like, if you try to model it with math, you typically get a soft takeoff? what's going on here?4 KB (728 words) - 16:56, 24 June 2020
- * for certain subjects (e.g. kanji, math formulas), it can be tricky to mentally diff between your response and what1 KB (261 words) - 02:39, 28 March 2021
- * There are only so many important theorems in a given subfield of math. In real analysis, you have things like the intermediate value theorem, Bol Even extremely competent math grad students seem to forget a lot of problems:<ref>https://usamo.wordpress4 KB (704 words) - 01:04, 17 July 2021
- ...e a scratch paper in front of me for e.g. writing kanji or expressions for math) and then i circle it (to distinguish it from scratch work). Sometimes when1 KB (198 words) - 02:32, 28 March 2021
- Some pages about how to use [[Anki]] to study math:174 bytes (25 words) - 19:34, 11 May 2021
- * Detailed solutions for all of the prerequisite math books, e.g. for the ones listed at [https://intelligence.org/research-guide ...ath. It would be great if people could "own" specific problems of specific math textbooks, and be a contact person for that problem. Then, if you get stuck3 KB (447 words) - 18:34, 18 July 2021
- I also had a similar feeling one day when I took a break from studying math and learned some microeconomics. The latter just felt so much easier.1 KB (190 words) - 02:28, 28 March 2021
- '''Highly reliable agent designs''' is the kind of pure-math research related to agency, decision theory, etc. that is done at MIRI. (th342 bytes (56 words) - 06:21, 27 May 2020
- * [[Duolingo for math]]4 KB (620 words) - 23:48, 13 August 2021
- ...y get the same sort of things out of studying math, and feel like learning math makes my life better in ways that the artificial puzzles of The Witness wou1 KB (193 words) - 00:51, 17 July 2021
- * "Do the math, then burn the math and go with your gut": writing down actual calculations and probabilities a3 KB (557 words) - 04:09, 16 July 2021
- [[Category:Math]]217 bytes (29 words) - 01:39, 1 December 2020
- ...n solve in 1 hour". It seems plausible to me that you could learn a lot of math/econ/physics/whatever just by asking this question repeatedly and solving t3 KB (452 words) - 05:02, 16 July 2021
- The expert response heuristic seems more useful in "hard" topics like math and CS, and less useful in things like life advice or whatever (it's hard t3 KB (560 words) - 00:52, 17 July 2021
- ...etty popular and people do get paid to research it. it's just ''my kind of math'' that is completely unknown.) Whereas for something like [https://kk.org/t2 KB (277 words) - 08:03, 24 September 2021
- * [[Combinatorial explosion in math]] * [[Video games allow immediate exploration]], whereas [[tinkering in math requires loading the situation into working memory]]482 bytes (58 words) - 00:42, 17 July 2021
- in math, you often deal with impossible situations (such as within a proof by contr471 bytes (61 words) - 00:51, 17 July 2021
- [[What would a vow of silence look like for math?]]350 bytes (53 words) - 01:01, 17 July 2021
- What would a "[[vow of silence]]" look like for math? Maybe we can't take the vow literally, but could instead do a thing where A math game could have a similar thing where everything is just mechanics that get575 bytes (89 words) - 01:00, 17 July 2021
- ...leted in under a minute). Can a series of such small tasks be deployed for math, in a way that leads to deep understanding? [[Tinkering in math requires loading the situation into working memory]]2 KB (319 words) - 04:11, 8 November 2021
- * [[Duolingo for math]]219 bytes (27 words) - 00:46, 17 July 2021
- ...'this Braidness'' into teaching math? One challenge is that [[tinkering in math requires loading the situation into working memory]]. ...ntations of mathematical objects is a blocker for an exploratory medium of math]].908 bytes (133 words) - 00:43, 17 July 2021
- ...a which seems totally out of left field. When such "moves" are possible in math, that means the space of potential moves you could make when trying to solv837 bytes (146 words) - 20:31, 30 March 2021
- The situation is quite different in math, since [[tinkering in math requires loading the situation into working memory]]. * [[Braid for math]]496 bytes (67 words) - 01:02, 17 July 2021
- ...bjects are presented to you and you can immediately interact with them. In math, the objects are ''described'' on a piece of paper, but that description is One problem with "[[Duolingo for math]]" is that in math, if you want to think about a problem or a theorem or whatever, you often n1 KB (232 words) - 00:40, 17 July 2021
