TrE comments on Recent updates to gwern.net (2012-2013) - Less Wrong

63 Post author: gwern 18 March 2013 07:54PM

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Comment author: TrE 21 March 2013 07:48:32AM 0 points [-]

In summary, it's useful to be capable of different reading speeds to adapt to the current task? Skimming (or Ctrl-F) for searching for useful text passages, fast reading for technical material one is familiar with, slow reading and re-reading for technical material one is not familiar with, slow dabbling in texts one reads for recreational purposes.