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Also incredible: the extent to which a few tools dominate. Wikipedia, YouTube, Memrise, Kindle; PDF viewers and audio players due generalized credit too I suppose.
If you teach yourself stuff, as a hobby, I am curious what tools or approaches you tend to use. What should I know about?
I got a lot more knowledgeable about moldmaking by watching Smooth-On’s videos.
Oh sweet!
Studying classical guitar feels totally different post-Internet (started in middle school) -- from hoarding expensive sheet music, to watching YouTube vids and getting access to much more info on fingering and timing immediately.
On this in particular: @adrianholovaty's http://soundslice.com is an incredible tool.
To learn Spanish: finding stuff I like (music, news, books, videos) in the target language. Been slow but it rarely felt like work.
To learn Go, besides all the usual stuff (reading docs, toy projects, etc.), it actually *taught* me a nontrivial amount to look details up to answer people's questions on StackOverflow, and to follow commits, codereviews, etc. of the Go project itself.
For programming, stack overflow is an amazing free resource. It is almost guaranteed that a novice had a question similar to yours and that an expert answered that question.
It's often aggravating, but stackexchange sites have been very helpful for me, seeing what problems/questions other people get stuck on
Finding questions -right- at the edge of my understanding of the topic and thinking "I bet I can google the last thing I need to know to answer this", etc.
biggest bang for buck is knowing your learning style and searching relentlessly for instruction that satisfies it. most people are lazy and not that smart, and most instructional material is made for them. clear it all away until you find something that speaks to you
also, Reddit is amazing for this. there’s a subreddit for everything and while a lot of them are gear-focused laziness (/r/photography, drumming, bowling come to mind), some are incredible (ssbm, fitness, and unusual “hobbies” like /r/skincareaddiction)
Anki and AnkiDroid spaced-repetition software
Absolutely this! I will also add scihub for research
scihub as improved my life a ton. before it I was stuck trying to find papers on edonkey. I use it multiple times a day.
calibre is good for indexing papers and books for reference later. solves the "agh what was that thing I read..." problem
Not free, but lots of courses on Udemy. If you can wait, they often discount courses to $10-$12. Lynda is also great.
I couldn't survive anymore without a searchable notebook (Evernote/Notational Velocity/Org mode or whatever). I have thousands of notes at this point.
How about a tandem exchange, like programming in <your favorite language> ?
My initial goal: go from novice to basic knowledge, not an expert 1. Start with understanding (not mastering) the basic concepts 2. Explain it to a 10yr, if they don't understand repeat step 1 3. Key to remember: focus on factual knowledge not opinions of the facts
irc & people with vastly different experience in some subject. the few times a compo breaks out, I can get out of my own head enough to hack and keep up
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