Emile comments on Reading habits/techniques/strategies (second post on the topic) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Emile 01 October 2013 08:20:27AM 1 point [-]

However, just a little bit into the first chapter, he throws in stuff about covariance and regression coefficients that go way over my head.

M, my usual reflex in situations like that is to pause, look up the terms in question, as well as associated wikipedia pages, and see if I'm missing any basic knowledge; and once I'm more comfortable with those, go back to the more advanced book/article.

Comment author: jetm 02 October 2013 04:11:24AM 0 points [-]

This is, of course, more ideal. Sadly, I get most of my books from unrenewable inter-library loans and therefore require an unfortunate focus on speed.

And now that I type this, I realize that nothing stops me from requesting a different edition of it a week or two before my current one is due......