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Learning to Learn

(kevin.the.li)
320 points jklm | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 00:01 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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keeptrying ◴[22 Oct 24 04:26 UTC] No.41911188[source]▶
A big hole in this article is that you need to find the very best learning resource there is. This is a must.

Eg: For RL it would be Barto&Sutton book.

Sometimes the best source is not intuitive. Eg: The best way to become a safe driver is to go to performance drivign school - its a bit expensive but they tell you how to sit and stay alert in a car which I have never seen outside of these schools.

One of my most common things nowadays is to ask ChatGPT is to ask to build a curriculum. Creating and understanding what a great curriculum looks like is 20% of the work of understanding a field.

You can LEARN ANYTHING now if you have the time and inclination and elbow grease. Truly nothing is beyond your grasp - NOTHING. Its a magical time.

I'm actually building a tool that will do all this for you and get you started down the learning path faster than what we have now.

And for the curious - the best way to learn medicine is not a textbook. There are solutions out there like Skethcy which work much better for anatomy.

My own learning project - learn Medicine "on the side". It seems ludcirous that we give up the keys to our health to doctors just so we don't have to learn 2 years of courses. Am going to fix that!

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1. keeptrying ◴[22 Oct 24 17:39 UTC] No.41916683[source]▶
Since this struck a note - you can find UCSFs list of textbooks here: https://meded.ucsf.edu/sites/meded.ucsf.edu/files/inline-fil...

Start with Anatomy. And the basic anatomical form.

Start with a problem you personally have. (Go to a doc if its serious!)

Figure out your concentric anaotmy of hte issue, the pathology. Everytime you read a textbook it will push you to a new subject.

Do this for at least 5 hours and you'll be able to relate to your doctor much better.

If you want to know what a dcotor looks at for decision support - you can go to uptodate.com - I think they have a free trial for 3 days or something.

The most essential idea is that a doctor is someone whose model of hte human body is much more realistic than yours.

Thus as you learn medicine keep improving the model you have of your own body and how someone elses would be different from yours - for all major body systems - lymph, respiratory, nervous, endocrine , muscular, digestive, integumentary, urinay, excretory, circulatory etc.