cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10828079
We all get bored sometimess and scroll mindlessly through various social media feeds, like instagram (fuck you), reddit (fuck you) or lemmy (no offense, love you guys).
Most of the time content is a wild mix of everything, from news to memes and educational stuff, and very hard to filter out.
Is there anything out there that contains educational stuff only? where you can just sit there, scroll through it and learn something. thinking of like a short text or image showing some facts, or some math examples, or physics, or whatever.
That would be considered as mindless scrolling through pop-science tabloids. That isn’t going to educate you in depth. Actual learning is really hard, and takes a lot of effort.
Currently, I’m finishing “Modern C” by Jens Gustedt - which is understandable - it’s just me going through C again for better understanding, but the other book I’m reading right now - “Algorithms in C” by Robert Sedgewick is damn hard, and unlike anything I’ve read before. I’ve completed one of the online versions of “Computer Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach” by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne before, and it was the most painful six months of total concentration. It was extremely difficult, but I learnt quite some stuff.
So yes, books are actually really good. RSS is also pretty neat, if you’re following some good blogs. Personally, I love reading Evan Ovadia’s blog on his new programming language Vale.
I disagree. Learning absolutely does not have to be really hard. Learning can be fun can you can motivated by curiosity. The best physics, research, and computer science professors I ever had were not the people that focused on the grind. They were able highlight something fascinating and dope, then make exploring that thing feel like solving a fun puzzle.
Moreover, if you’re recreationally curious about something you by no means need to study the full thing. People should be encouraged to be curious about lots of things. It’s ok to snack from the science sampler platter without getting into the kitchen. Explore the dope theory and high level gestalt first. Have fun.
If you’re curious about lots of things, you’re more likely to stumble upon something that you’re passionate about. And it’s WAY easier to get into the weeds with something that you’re passionate about.
Short-content pop-science video can’t teach eddy currents, empirical study of algorithms or even polysaccharides in general. Learning is not fun. It takes a lot of effort to concentrate. Articles and medium-length videos are slightly tolerable. Reading book adds to that difficulty.
Well, speak for yourself. I enjoyed what I studied in both undergraduate and graduate school. 🤷♂️
Also, my favorite class in high school was from a physics teacher that made things a ton of fun. I had so much fun in his class that I used to skip track practice and sit in his class for another period.