Looking back on my school years, one thing that strikes me is that they never taught us the meta. They gave us theorems & formulas, but they never talked about the general processes & techniques you can use to approach & solve problems. Or about how to get better at learning.
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Agreed François! Is there a specific resource that you feel covers the meta well?
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Hopefully this will change, in part thanks to
@StanDehaene and his latest book which I highly recommend (plus Consciousness and the brain)https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/579922/how-we-learn-by-stanislas-dehaene/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Generally those things come through practice. Someone can understand something yet be incapable of implementing it, I’d much prefer a more targeted coaching style with relation to exams over time spent explaining how one should think.
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Why do you get resentful then when we call deep learning neither deep nor learning?
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Would you kindly be able to provide a link to a sample of these type of Putnam-style exams
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But does the meta remain because that is the part you taught yourself? That was the part you learnt through trial and error, and gaining experience. Maybe that is what learning really entails.
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Required reading from my high school calculus teacher: “How to Solve It,” by George Pólya
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you are not taliking about flash and the other metas right?
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