My Student Voices
mystudentvoices.com · Group blog · on HN since 2016
My Student Voices publishes essays on learning, memory, math puzzles, complexity and programming education, often by guest authors.
What HN saysHN commenters cite it for learning techniques like Feynman's, the shepherd age problem and Yaneer Bar-Yam's complexity piece. They treat it as a source of useful articles.
19HN people shared it
6linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1Why Complexity is Different3 people · 112 points · first shared 2017 · 5 comments on HN
- 2“How old is the shepherd?” – The problem that shook school mathematics2 people · 6 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
- 3A Look into NASA’s Coding Philosophy1 people · 247 points · first shared 2017 · 51 comments on HN
- 4How Do I Stop Forgetting What I Learned So Quickly?1 people · 26 points · first shared 2020 · 4 comments on HN
- 5Learning Through Formation of Mental Models1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 6On higher education, programmers and blue-collar job – answer to Wired1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · 1 comments on HN
- 7Stories I won't write1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 8The Secret to Memorizing Huge Numbers1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 9Digital countries1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 10A new Developer Path1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 11Learning from a Prodigy – Magnus Carlsen1 people · 1 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 12Work, Study, No Rest1 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 13Teaching my daughter to code – [Video and post]1 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 14Steering the economy toward growth1 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 15Dynamic Medicine (measuring dynamic response and maintaining dynamic states)1 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
KineticLensman · 2018-12-30
Lots of people (e.g. [0], [1], [2]) have blogged the Feynman technique, which seems to have been first documented in Gleick’s biography [3]. The various descriptions identify the following four steps:
* write down the name of a concept
* write down an explanation of the concept in plain English, identifying the bits you don’t know
* review the explanation, going back to source material if there is something that you haven’t yet explained, and repeat step 2
* simplify the language and rewrite bits where you have paraphrased the source material
[0] https://collegeinfogeek.com/feynman-technique/
[1] https://mattyford.com/blog/2014/1/23/the-feynman-technique-model
[2] https://mystudentvoices.com/feynman-technique-learn-and-retain-informa…
[3] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679747044
kleer001 · 2018-10-26
Personally I'd love it, but in general most people are essentially spiteful and lazy and won't self govern unless you force them, which defeats the whole purpose.
This article gets into it:
https://mystudentvoices.com/fyodor-dostoevsky-on-the-irrationality-of-…
ColinWright · 2020-05-26
I never understood why the Missing Dollar Riddle ever confuses people. As soon as they say "Add the $2 to the $27" I say, "But why are you adding something someone has to a total that people paid?"
That, in turn, is like the "Age of the Shepherd" problem[0] ... people just add/subtract/multiply/divide things randomly without thinking about what they mean.
[0] https://mystudentvoices.com/how-old-is-the-shepherd-the-problem-that-s…
ajcarpy2005 · 2019-08-06
pizza · 2017-09-20
it's really hard to know what even are the properties of complex systems - good article by yaneer bar-yam about them https://mystudentvoices.com/why-complexity-is-different-ecd498e0eccb
jimmytidey · 2016-12-06
Hmmm... It's a problem. It's very much a side project (I only built it because I needed it), and building a demo that works when you aren't logged in is a bit of a nightmare as I'm sure you can imagine.
Thanks for commenting though, I have written about what it does here if you'd like to see before you sign in.
https://mystudentvoices.com/scraping-google-scholar-to-write-your-phd-…
You'll also need a Chrome extension, all very annoying but sadly unavoidable.