What's the most efficient way to study?

Why are meme spamming unfunny teenagers obsessed with this guy? Do they show his videos in school or something now?

Paying attention in class and not studying later

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Hey there, and yeah. That's a pretty effective way of doing it for a very small percentage of the population. If you can do that as well then I would be pretty impressed. It's still good if you can't, just keep working at it if that's the case.

My method: 1) Get a general overview: What are the problems in this field? How are we trying to solve them? After this episode, I will be usually able to put~95% of the relevant words into the correct context. 2) Get the hands dirty with practicing. This makes things click on another level and makes flaws in understanding obvious. 3) Close the gaps: Is there any word that I can't define? Any proof that I don't get/can't do? This is also the stage where I learn together with others and reach out for explanations if needed.

Oh, I have also some science out of my ass to support the method: a) The more things you can associate with a new fact, the longer it will stick around in your brain. Hence step 1). b) We are all quite fond of commiting confirmation bias - in this case, overlooking gaps in our knowledge and only engaging material that we are kinda familiar with. Doing all the exercises helps with that. Also talking to others.

What do you mean a small percentage of the population? All of the studies that Karpicke's lab has done (as well as Roediger's) consistently show that retrieval practice is 1.5x to 2x more effective than the next best thing (just re-reading notes). Effectiveness is defined as % of information correctly remembered on a test a week, month, or longer time period since the last time the participant sat down to study (so it's study-dependent)

Also, this effectiveness compounds, so it's more like (1.5)^n to 2^n more effective, with n = amount of times you sit down to do retrieval practice.

Maybe retrieval practice is good when you're being tested on memorization. I doubt it would help much on something problem-oriented, like math, physics, computer programming, or anything like that. So if you want a good general study method, retrieval practice necessarily needs to be combined with some regime that includes problemsolving.

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He's done some videos with YouTube "meme lords"

I can't see this working for any subject that requires practical exercises like math, physics or chemistry.

>Being this repulsed by anything even barely mainstream
Get over yourself. The guys videos are well made and he's easy to make fun of

No, you can never memorize problem solving and heuristics. However, this is a good way to learn the toolkits of those fields by heart, like say some linear algebra methods or what have you.

I've literally done this since 1st grade. Don't all people study like this?

Really enjoy the topic, and have fun with it.
Learning is remembering. Fun moments are easy to remember.
There is not more to it.
Just really love the topic you study.
Don't try to study something you don't like. Don't go for the money, go for the experience

Ah, so this is what a product of the 2000s looks like. You disgracefully pathetic shrimp

Doing problems when you learn math/physics/whatever is a given, but retrieval practice can be useful if you're in the early stages of learning something new, like when you read about a subject for the first time in a book. Obviously you would do the retrieval differently, like you would go through a proof in your head or write it down on a piece of paper, instead of recalling dates, events, etc. What makes it works is the timing and actively going over things in your head, and not the specific way you go over the things in your head.

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we should really put it out of its misery

Being passionate about what you study.

I thought that if you have a piece of paper and you divide 1/4th of it horizontally that you can write quotations and formulas on the larger side and write references to other material on the smaller side. You can also create your own strategy about what content goes on each side of the paper.

If you use repetition that also works with studying. You just keep reviewing material until it stays in your mind. Any application like Memrise that uses intelligent flash cards will work.

If you can create a positive feedback loop by studying with a timer that may help. Basically you set a timer and study without pressuring yourself. You just make the effort to study, no matter the pace or your progress, until the timer rings. After an hour or a half-hour of studying take a break and reward yourself tea or maybe a bit of coffee. Brewing something helps your mind to calm down and if whatever you are drinking is sweet it helps to strengthen your mental connection to studying as being pleasurable.

Environment is everything as well. If you are stuck somewhere that is distracting or has bad Feng Shui then expect that to hamper your learning. Find a library, coffee shop or a little spot at your friends house to study that suits you.

If you can get a cheap laptop then slap Linux on it and use it only for the purpose of studying. Only have stuff on it that is conducive to what you are studying. If you must put a desktop background that says "Are you still working?" or something else snarky to keep yourself focused.

Your post is poisonous.

>Don't try to study something you don't like
So you shouldn't "have fun with it"?

>Don't go for the money
Money isn't bad.

You should learn to develop an interest in what you are studying, you should learn to enjoy doing difficult things that no one else can and which businesses will trip over each other to hire you to do.

In crazed, caffeine induced delirium after 3 days without sleep an hour before the final exam.

Thanks user, I'll check it out.

>Go to lecture
>Discuss that lecture with classmates
>Read book if lecture is not helpful
>Take test
>Change tactics if failed

How do you apply this to subjects like math and computer science that are based on problem-solving?

By studying instead of asking Veeky Forums how to into learning.

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I keep imagining a site or game that teaches math incrementally. The player would have to add equalities to their mathematical inventory by deriving things like standard derivatives. In later stages the player would only be allowed to make substitutions with equalities previously derived.

How do you recommend taking notes?

Cornel method and mindmap are ways of tricking yourself into actually thinking about the material

Great post thanks a lot user.

Noopept and actually doing something.

Practice problems without referring to anything while you're doing to the problem.

What's better for taking notes and writing small summaries of what you study, a laptop or handwriting?

Do you do every problem in the book? Is this inefficient? If not, how do you choose which problems to do?

Mayuri a shit

Probably laptop, since your notes will be searchable, possibly easier to read, and it will help you get better at latex.
Some dumb dumb who hasn't actually read that study will probably come along and say that handwriting is scientifically proven to be better, but don't listen to them.

This works for me™

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Personally, reading and doing problems works best for me. I can't keep up in lecture if I am note-taking (unless its like several words to look up later, or something minor). I do the reading before class, make sure I can follow along the entire way in class, then do as many problems as possible.

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In addition, sportsbooks have to put their money on the line with their predictions, whereas 538 or any other site offering predictions doesn't lose any money when their projections are marginally out.

Despite my pessimism, I would like to know if anybody on this board has consistently beaten the house using this or any other statistical method, particularly with the NFL season starting.

oops meant to post this as a new thread.

And rewrite chapters.

Is Retrieval learning == Active recall?

Stand in front of a mirror and pretend you're lecturing on the topic.

To build up on this, some other user on sci suggested actually "writing" the textbook, without looking at the original(s), over several days/weeks.

Yes. Attempting to consciously retrieve memories is retrieval (also known as active recall).

"Retrieval practice" is simply repeating retrieval (or active recall) a bunch of times until you can remember pretty much everything you've been studying. This is how you get the delicious 99% on exams

Funnily enough that's how I used to study, got into a good uni after acing my SATs but because of the whole "lul i didnt have study skilsl in high school" my GPA tanked in 1st year, so I was like "let's see what the science says about the most effective studying methods and here we are

So, retrieval practice works on what is called semantic memory, which is (basically) the memory of facts. If you have trouble remembering things like derivations, formulae, empirical facts from the natural sciences, then this will help.

For things like the application of intelligence to solve novel problems, you want to work on your procedural memory (which is basically "cognitive skill"). Here's a paper on how math ability might be related to procedural memory - but note that this area is not yet as deeply researched as retrieval practice.

journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01318/full

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One other thing (this doesn't come from empirical studies, so take it with a grain of salt): A good friend of mine, who went to the international math olympiads in high school (and got silvers all the time) told me the Chinese kids had an excellent way of prepping for the olympiads.

Any time they would get stuck on a math problem, unable to fix it, and they would be told the answer (or the solution to that particular step) later, they would take a small break and ask themselves "Where should I have figured that out from?" and then written down the explanation. And then they would basically go over the explanation and think about it for the next two or three days, once or twice a day. Basically, just burning into their memory what they should have thought of to solve that step they couldn't manage to solve then.

And he said they told him it worked pretty well. It would make sense from a crystallised intelligence/procedural memory point of view - you're developing your math skill by constantly reminding yourself where you got stuck and what you should've thought of when you got stuck - so if that happens in the future, you're really likely to remember what you need to do.

The best way to study is to somehow be the guy in every course you take that people turn to for help cause you seem to understand certain things slightly faster which will force you to keep thinking of intuitive ways to explain the course material to these brainlets. The pressure of people asking you to explain some things will make you desperate to actually understand the course as if you were a teacher of it.

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I can confirm this works quite well.

All the problems you, idiot. And then some to make sure you really get it

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>Studying
>Not lifting
You're fucked Veeky Forumsguy.

Thanks a lot! Where do you find all this informations on this subject?

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don't hate on Veeky Forums its probably the only board with the largest portion of Veeky Forums members

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I can't do this because all of my classmates are brainlets.

Honestly I use my notebook as pseudo-scratch paper where I write down my thoughts and explore ideas. It's an extension of the mind while I'm thinking. I trust that if I ever look back at it I'll be reminded of all the various things I've learned. It's really freeing to not have to worry about keeping my notes clean and organized, though I understand it's not for everyone.

Ok what about books that include problems that are basically research problems? Seems unrealistic, bro.

Nah that'd be Veeky Forums.

/fitlit/ will never die.

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what the fuck kind of magic school bus world do you live in?!

Not being a brainlet.

>Learning is often considered complete when a student can produce the correct answer to a question.

The fact that they based their research on this supposition is questionable. It's easy to memorize and parrot out words you don't understand. The trick is understanding what you're parroting out.

just do a bunch of research using your unis database, or stuff like Google Scholar

the authors of the papers you read (+ the referenced papers in those papers) have their own memory research, just keep going down the rabbit hole

I want to go into neuroscience for my PhD and I've been doing this literature research on the side for about a year, so I already have a shitton of papers downloaded and read

But understanding is simply logical connections between propositions ("truth-claims" about the world). And to understand something, you must be able to explain its mechanism, how it works - and for this, you must have semantic memory (i.e. knowledge) of the mechanism.

So just write out an explanation (i.e. how you understand some concept) on a piece of paper and retrieval practice that. Voila

Does anyone have the post of the guy mentioning the pomodoro method?

Or the safer version...adderall

that was probably me. i've talked about it a dozen times on Veeky Forums but i sort of don't want to bother talking about it all again.

Don't worry, we don't care about your pseudoscience, either.

watch a youtube video regarding the subject

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tfw

just do it.

Do all these memes methods work? I usually just go through some book, do exercises and review concepts. Maybe make some table with shit I need tl memorize.

If your method is making you straight A's and feels efficient then just keep doing that. Otherwise there's nothing wrong with trying out different methods to see what works for you.

Read the theory, then do the simpler exercises. Once you've worked through the entire chapter, skim over the theory once again, and try the harder exercises.

is this bait?

Except that is true.

The problem with taking notes by computer is that you can type very fast and don't acknowledge the info. By handwriting, you literally force yourself painstainkingly to engage with the info.

How do I take notes? Just copy from a textbook? Or diagrams and shiiet?

That's not true when you're writing small summaries or taking notes from a textbook, because you are writing summaries to begin with, which engages your brain, and probably not true when you take notes of a math-related video lecture, because your typing speed is more limited in that case, as you have to type out math formulas, which also engages your brain btw. Besides, the study only looked at the most immediate effects (they took the notes and studied them once or twice over a one week period), which isn't really significant in the context of actual studying, when you study your notes that grow longer multiple times, and where their searchability and portability may prove more useful.

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But that's the thing. Taking notes from a textbook can just be touch typing and copying a whole paragraph without real immersion. I can and have done that. With music in the background. I learn nothing because it is just me copy and pasting and then feeling good that I did some work. And I can touch type +100 with my eyes closed. If you can't do that, then it's not the same for you. But for people like me who can, note taking by computer is nothing more than masturbation - feels great doing it but no real value at the end.

And I'm sure there has been more than 1 study shown on this. Which one you citing?

Cont...

scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret-don-t-take-notes-with-a-laptop/

That's mostly on you though, because at one point you should have realized that copying entire paragraphs isn't the way to go, and you have realized it, since you're posting this. Most paragraphs that can be copied without paying much attention are usually drawn-out explanations anyway, which should obviously be reworded for smaller size, and to include your own observations and explanations that are more useful to you. Or you can just omit those altogether, and instead leave some clues for recalling, such as what you want to prove, and use the book as a reference when you get stuck when you go over them. The only things worth copying are definitions and theorems (but not their proofs), and they are worth copying verbatim regardless of whether you use a pen or a laptop, because they are usually as short as they can get, and because modifying them may introduce logical errors.
I'm talking about the same "the pen is mightier than the keyboard" study btw sites.udel.edu/victorp/files/2010/11/Psychological-Science-2014-Mueller-0956797614524581-1u0h0yu.pdf.

Can someone please explain isomorphisms in graphs to me

I understand you can represent the same graph visually in multiple ways, pic related.

Am I correct in saying this is the same graph in my upload?

As far as i understand then an isomorphic graph to the one depicted is the same as depicted except the vertices aren't connected by the same edges. Is this understanding sound?

Is that to say to consider two graphs isomorphic, for every vertex in a graph there must be a corresponding vertex with the same degree in the second graph, even if labelled differently?