Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode
After I released version 1.0, I figured I would have to do the rotations myself. So I sat down with ChatGPT and I didn’t get it to write the code, but I got it to educate me. With a patient, interactive tutor, I was able to finally do what I hadn’t by reading books and asking mathematician friends – I learnt how to use quaternions just enough to make the app work.
So learning doesn’t stop just because I outsource a bunch of thinking to AI. It pushes me to learn more. I like that as an outcome.
It is something I’m trying to do more of.
How I use LLMs to learn complex topics · Laurentiu Raducu by Laurentiu Raducu
While I was analyzing new AI bottlenecks that might slow down data center buildup, I realized there are many aspects of chip production that I do not know. Surfing the web, I asked myself what if there would be a game to get you through the process of building a chip at a fab? For sure learning this way will stick, since you can map concepts with objects within the game.
I have my own systems built by Claude to learn and now remember stuff. This was interesting as well.
Learning How to Learn
A week of fasting, learning about learning and a new philosophy
Spaced Repetition
The Joy of Coding
Learn Powershell in a month of lunches was one of my favourite books to learn PowerShell. I still recommend it whole heartedly.
I never got the shtick though.
Until today, when I was reading Time management for system administrators. By chance I have been reading one chapter per day, per lunch hour.
And finally it clicked. I can finish one chapter per lunch hour - learn powershell in a month of lunches.
Bringing goodwill to the conversation by Seth Godin
Learning is an argument, a conversation designed to change minds. Learning happens long after we leave organized schooling, and it requires emotional enrollment. We’re more likely to learn when we bring a desire to be transformed and to leave our previous assumptions behind.
Amplified by social media, there’s a rising tide of arguments that purport to be learning that actually lead nowhere. That’s because the participants are seeking to score points and gain attention, not to enroll in a mutual process of transformation and learning.