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hamnox comments on Scientifically optimizing education: Hard problem, or solved problem? Introducing the Theory of Direct Instruction - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: Owen_Richardson 31 August 2011 05:28AM

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Comment author: hamnox 01 September 2011 01:00:31PM 5 points [-]

Aha!

This is a very useful and relevant explanation, which would have been unutterably more useful to read in the article itself.

Comment author: Owen_Richardson 02 September 2011 12:53:07AM *  0 points [-]

Thank you, I'm glad to know I'm at least making some progress (I sweated over my first attempt for ages and it ended up terrible, but then just a little time of feedback and back and forth discussion seems to really be tightening up my understanding of what I need to communicate and how! That's probably a highly generalizable principle :P - actually reminds me of some "just make an attempt already if failure is low cost!" post I saw some months back in main... can't find it right now, but maybe you remember the one I mean. Edit: it was "[Just Try It")

Anyway, is this also helpful? (Even 'unutterably' so? :P)