pedagogy

A Math Academy review

A personal review of Math Academy from the perspective of a self-taught math-heavy user, focusing on its pedagogy, strengths, and annoyances.

Calibrating Confidence

A note on confidence calibration, why overconfidence and underconfidence both hurt decisions, and how to test and improve probabilistic judgement.

How to learn better, and what most people don't get about learning

A personal model of learning as building and querying a knowledge graph, with advice on theory, problem solving, creativity, feedback, and overfitting.