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     "text": "Learning to learn\n\nBooks\n\nMake It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel, Peter C. Brown\n\n\n\nBlogs and websites\n\nTechniques for Efficiently Learning Programming Languages. Despite the title, this post provides many useful tips for learning to learn in general.\nRecommendations about how to learn mathematics in an enjoyable way"
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+    "text": "I recently joined the amazing exercism community. Exercism is an online free coding platform that encourages learning programming languages through practice, free mentorship by volunteers, and exposure to similar solutions once our own solution has been submitted and passes the tests. Each exercise comes with associated learning material, which is a concise description of the concepts that are strictly required for attempting the exercise. However, the focus is always to encourage the students to learn through problem solving, while autonomously investigating the bits that are required. This follows closely recent research on education and neuroscience.\nI would like to share related thoughts on learning through practice, visual learning, and mathematics or related disciplines. The following are just short notes on this matter, that can serve both as a high-level roadmap to a potential long-term project, and contain some references that I would like to keep in mind and expand in the future.\nI found exercism to be a nicely designed platform that, being open source, could be extended to be applied to other domains beyond programming languages, and in particular to math problems. We could then use libraries to describe the problems visually, similar to what 3blue1brown does. By presenting math problems as both visual puzzles and in its original text form, we can make the problem more appealing, following the the ideas of Jo Boaler, e.g., in Mathematical mindsets, and visual mathematics. It would be nice if the student could manipulate the problem visually (i.e., manipulating and transforming the graphical elements with a mouse), and if the problem could be presented not only in 2D but also in 3D (using Virtual Reality, ideally), so that the student is able to also manipulate the objects in a sort-of “physical” world (be it through a game that emulates this world, or through gadgets like glasses and gloves, to have a better sensorial experience, although this would only be accessible by people able to buy those gadgets, unfortunately).\nMichael Nielsen has written very nice essays on these lines, under the title “Tools for Thought”. In particular, his essays Toward an exploratory medium for mathematics, Thought as a Technology, How can we develop transformative tools for thought? and Reinventing Explanation. Similar ideas are recently being developed by many scientists and educators and put in practice in journals such as Distill. I will be including those references in here as I find them, with a brief description, to serve as sources for the future."
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+    "text": "Note: this post is, at this moment, just a draft in progress.\nThe idea of writing this post came initially as a sort-of response / contribution to the excellent essay from Daniel Higginbotham entitled Techniques for Efficiently Learning Programming Languages. Despite the title of the essay, the ideas inside are very much generic for learning to learn basically anything. I will be adding a slighly new perspective which incorporates a “project-driven” approach to learning. This idea is not novel, and can be applied either in conjunction or as an alternative to the ideas expressed in post by D. Higginbotham, depending on what our final goals are. I will also use ideas such as Exploration vs Exploitation from the field of Reinforcement Learning, which I will be explaning for anyone not familiar in this field.\nThe gist of project-based learning is to focus our learning journey on those things that will prove to be important in our daily practice or life in general. It is motivated in part by the fact that, many times, when we learn a new field, e.g., in college, we study many concepts that we will never be using or needing in anyway, and end up completely forgotten. To be more concrete, let us take the field of mathematics as an example.\nGiven the vast amount of things that are actually interesting and relevant for our lives, this approach can be considered sub-optimal in many cases, making us waste a lot of time on topics that are not even connected to those parts that are relevant to us. Having said that, as I explore in this post, it all depends on what the final goal in our learning adventure. For this, I will be using a framework based on the Exploration vs Exploitation trade-off from Reinforcement Learning.\nThe gist of it is that, many times, when we start a learning"
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+    "text": "Note: this post is, at this moment, just a draft in progress.\nI have been a podcast and audio-book listener for the last few years. In this post, I would like to list and briefly describe the podcasts that I find interesting, and point to relevant sources."
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+    "text": "List of podcasts\n\nGeneral\n\nLex Fridman Podcast: long-format (>= 3h) interviews with interesting people of all types: literature, education, health, science, religion, politics… It started focusing on AI (the domain he is expert on), then expanded to science and software in general, then to everything. Very interesting guests IMO, most of them previously unknown by me.\nJoe Rogan Experience: Similar to Lex Fridman podcast. i found many interesting personalities in this podcast, and Joe has this capacity of making every conversation a fascinating one, and showing respect and interest towards points of view that are quite different from his own ones. However, there are few things that make me get away from it sometimes: he tends to bring many UFC fighters and comedians, which are the two things he is expert on. I like martial arts, but this high bias towards this type of guests is not ideal for me. He also tends to criticize previous guests when they are not there, even if he doesn’t do any criticism when the guest is there (at least not during the time I listen, sometimes I stop after one or two hours, and I should wait until the end to be sure about this).\n\n\n\nHealth\n\nHuberman Lab Podcast: mental and physical health, performance, and well-being in general. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist and professor at the Standford School of Medicine. This podcast combines interviews with guests, many of them well-known scientists and pioneers in their field, with discussions about where he covers specific topics that he and his team have been researching for the podcast.\nThe Peter Attia Drive Podcast: focused on latest research for increasing longevity, healthspan and lifespan. Dr. Peter Attia is the author of Outlive, and has a dedicated practice for studying and researching causes and solutions of age-related diseases, and how to stay healthy until the last years of our life.\nDr Chaterjee: mostly interviews with guests from the health sector, occasionally having well-known guests from other domains, usually with some relationship with health and well-being in general.\n\n\n\nEducation\n\nMr Barton Maths Podcast: education in mathematics (mostly secondary education), but extrapolable to education in general, as it talks about research in education, which in turn comes from fields such as neuroscience and psychology, and is applicable to many fields beyond mathematics.\n3blue1brown podcast: interviews, mostly with mathematicians. Even if you don’t like maths (which to be honest it is not something I’m really an expert on), i find the conversations very interesting, and amenable for non-mathematicians like myself.\n\n\n\nParenting\n\nRasing Good Humans: I listened to some of the episodes but still have to listen to more.\nParent-Driven Development: just listened to a couple of podcasts. Informal conversations with parents involved in technology and software in particular: how they teach their children, what strategies they use to keep a good work-life balance, etc.\n\n\n\nMisc.\n\nThe Rest is History: Great podcast about both recent and ancient history, with in-depth coverage of different curious and interesting events, personalities, and cultures.\nThe Rest is Money: I discovered this through the Rest is History. It is a different way to follow recent developments, here focused on the ones having impact on the economy.\nGlobal News Podcast from the BBC. It has two episodes per day, 30 min each."
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posts/others/podcasts.qmd

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 ## List of podcasts
 
+### General
+- [Lex Fridman Podcast](https://lexfridman.com/podcast/): long-format (>= 3h) interviews with interesting people of all types: literature, education, health, science, religion, politics... It started focusing on AI (the domain he is expert on), then expanded to science and software in general, then to everything. Very interesting guests IMO, most of them previously unknown by me. 
+- [Joe Rogan Experience](https://www.joerogan.com/): Similar to Lex Fridman podcast. i found many interesting personalities in this podcast, and Joe has this capacity of making every conversation a fascinating one, and showing respect and interest towards points of view that are quite different from his own ones. However, there are few things that make me get away from it sometimes: he tends to bring many UFC fighters and comedians, which are the two things he is expert on. I like martial arts, but this high bias towards this type of guests is not ideal for me. He also tends to criticize previous guests when they are not there, even if he doesn't do any criticism when the guest is there (at least not during the time I listen, sometimes I stop after one or two hours, and I should wait until the end to be sure about this).
+
 ### Health
-- [Huberman Lab Podcast](https://www.hubermanlab.com/podcast)
-- [The Peter Attia Drive Podcast](https://peterattiamd.com/podcast/)
-- [Dr Chaterjee](https://drchatterjee.com/blog/category/podcast/)
+- [Huberman Lab Podcast](https://www.hubermanlab.com/podcast): mental and physical health, performance, and well-being in general. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist and professor at the Standford School of Medicine. This podcast combines interviews with guests, many of them well-known scientists and pioneers in their field, with discussions about where he covers specific topics that he and his team have been researching for the podcast.
+- [The Peter Attia Drive Podcast](https://peterattiamd.com/podcast/): focused on latest research for increasing longevity, healthspan and lifespan. Dr. Peter Attia is the author of `Outlive`, and has a dedicated practice for studying and researching causes and solutions of age-related diseases, and how to stay healthy until the last years of our life.
+- [Dr Chaterjee](https://drchatterjee.com/blog/category/podcast/): mostly interviews with guests from the health sector, occasionally having well-known guests from other domains, usually with some relationship with health and well-being in general.
 
 ### Education
-- [Mr Barton Maths Podcast](https://www.mrbartonmaths.com/blog/)
+- [Mr Barton Maths Podcast](https://www.mrbartonmaths.com/blog/): education in mathematics (mostly secondary education), but extrapolable to education in general, as it talks about research in education, which in turn comes from fields such as neuroscience and psychology, and is applicable to many fields beyond mathematics.
+- [3blue1brown podcast](https://www.3blue1brown.com/podcast): interviews, mostly with mathematicians. Even if you don't like maths (which to be honest it is not something I'm really an expert on), i find the conversations very interesting, and amenable for non-mathematicians like myself.
 
 ### Parenting
-- [Rasing Good Humans](https://draliza.com/episodes/)
-- [Parent-Driven Development](https://www.parentdrivendevelopment.com/)
+- [Rasing Good Humans](https://draliza.com/episodes/): I listened to some of the episodes but still have to listen to more.
+- [Parent-Driven Development](https://www.parentdrivendevelopment.com/): just listened to a couple of podcasts. Informal conversations with parents involved in technology and software in particular: how they teach their children, what strategies they use to keep a good work-life balance, etc. 
 
-### General
-- [Lex Fridman Podcast](https://lexfridman.com/podcast/)
-- [The Tim Ferris Show](https://tim.blog/podcast/)
-- [Joe Rogan Experience](https://www.joerogan.com/)
+### Misc.
 
+- **The Rest is History**: Great podcast about both recent and ancient history, with in-depth coverage of different curious and interesting events, personalities, and cultures.
+- **The Rest is Money**: I discovered this through the Rest is History. It is a different way to follow recent developments, here focused on the ones having impact on the economy. 
+- **Global News Podcast** from the BBC. It has two episodes per day, 30 min each.