points by Shorel 5 days ago | 0 comments
I love old school research using books, however the advantages of connected information cannot be understated.
We could do much better with access to online libraries (which don't exist, apart from the very limited sample from these books accessible using Wikipedia).
Current (blogs and articles and forums) online resources provide information at a rate book search just can't provide.
[–] mmooss 4 days ago
[–] 0c3ca83 4 days ago
Yes. If you're optimizing for fast answers over learning, it's a good tool.
[–] Shorel 4 days ago
Neither.
I optimize for finding the answer to a given question, without knowing beforehand if it will be found online or in an research article or in a book.
And I mean finding the right answer, before you mention "learning" like it is something that can't be done using computers.
[–] 0c3ca83 4 days ago
Learning can certainly be done using computers. But also not as effectively as stepping away from the answer machine to puzzle it out yourself.
[–] Shorel 4 days ago
You are not the only person familiar with Feynman's strategy to approach a new topic.
[–] 0c3ca83 4 days ago
This isn't coming from Feynman. There's decades of research into how education works.
[–] Shorel 3 days ago
Whatever. It's about the method, not about who used it first.
[–] dimator 4 days ago
Except finding the answer to a question has never been what schooling is about. Otherwise we would hand kids a calculator at age 5 and completely skip teaching arithmetic.
[–] Shorel 3 days ago
By the answers I'm getting here, it seems education is all about how to strawman any argument :D
[–] reaperducer 5 days ago
We put men on the moon with pencil and paper.
Trillions and trillions of dollars of technology later, and the best we can do now is fly by and wave.
[–] mym1990 5 days ago
Jesus, it has absolutely nothing to do with not having the technological capacity to go back and land on the moon, and everything to do with political and social will. We have rockets doing gymnastics in the sky and landing doing back-flips, you really think we've regressed because "we're not doing pen and paper"?
There are many, but all short of the potential for knowledge and learning:
Internet Archive Lending Library, Hathi Trust, Libby / Overdrive, U. of Pennsylvania's Online Books Page:
https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
There are also the shadow libraries, of course.