Gaining competency in a skill or knowledge of a subject matter. Improving one's abilities.
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Should I keep revising?
Scenario:
I read about multithreading (one of the computer programming concept) aroung 10 months ago. I practiced it well, wrote around 5-6 articles with my own examples. It is one of my interesting ...
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Is it a good idea to test multiple “pieces of knowledge” on one card?
I'm using Anki, a flashcard learning tool, for learning Japanese vocabulary. Of course, this includes words with kanji. For these I need to know both the reading and the meaning. Now I'm wondering ...
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Does Lucid Dreaming hurt the learning process? [closed]
Given how dreams are a way for the brain to process the day and make connections to other things, creating the new neural circuits to support new things you have learned, doesn't altering the normal ...
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How to become a proactive rather than a reactive (lazy) learner?
My whole life I have been a reactive, lazy learner. What that means is that more or less any knowledge I ever acquired came in one of the three possible manners:
Someone madated a task for whose ...
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Redoing Questions
Suppose I took an exam and did poorly on it. Would it be good to try and redo those questions again without looking at the answers? If so, how long should I wait before I try those questions again and ...
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Does speed reading work well with reading non-native language?
My native language is Serbian, but from my early age I started to learn English. And now, when I am a programmer I read almost all stuff in English (stuff for college, books, internet stuff, movies, ...
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Mentoring a Fresher
I am working as a developer in software industry for past 8 years. I have seen many projects and worked as a dev lead which also involves interacting with QA team to get the testing done of the ...
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Learning methodology for software developer?
I am a beginner in software development. I've started learning algorithms, networking and software development practices from various books. My seniors advised me to read one book and learn one thing ...
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Brain background education?
I'm interested in one specific brain ability. I'll try to describe it.
Imagine that you are learning to play the guitar. You bought an instrument, self-teaching book and started to learn playing ...
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How best to organize research by project for multiple different projects?
I have multiple projects each requiring their own research that's not interrelated.
(ie: Database Admin, Systems Admin, Database Development). Knowledge in these areas is endless and falls under ...
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How can I communicate with others to help them consider alternative viewpoints?
What is the best way to communicate with others such that they will make strides to consider alternative viewpoints? I feel this would help to reduce anger in groups.
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Helping young people that want to improve productivity, but are struggling with authority?
Only a few years ago I was in at that age where everyone around me wanted to party and only have a good time. Even then I was driven to look for another path. Now I find myself with some younger ...
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Catching up a whole field in science with textbooks and videos of lectures
For a future research project I need to grasp as all of the information I can and concepts over condensed matter physics (with my current background I am fairly familiar with the mathematics and ...
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How does accumulation of knowledge/skill works in case of the 10,000 hours rule? [closed]
I have often read on the internet that one needs 10,000 hours ( Malcolm Gladwell's Theory ) of deliberate practice to become good at something. It takes about 7 years @ 4 hours per day. Does this mean ...
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Why is learning theoretical stuff necessary to be a software engineer? [closed]
I'm a engineer student. After passing 3 years of learning hard theoretical stuff, I expected that my fourth year would be interesting for me as a software engineer, but we are still learning about ...
