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Jayson_Virissimo comments on Group rationality diary, 10/29/12 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 02 November 2012 10:47:36AM *  0 points [-]
  • Optimized some part of a common routine or cached behavior

When introducing myself to a new field of study I would typically read Wikipedia and work through The Complete Idiot's Guide or listen to the lectures by The Teaching Company.

Lately, I have been purchasing those laminated study sheets (usually only 4-6 pages) from the bookstore (such as the ones made by Kaplan or SparkNotes) and transforming them into flash cards to enter into my SRS (in sentence sized chunks with close-delete of key words). Subjectively, they seem to give me about the same (or only slightly less) quality introduction to the topic as the aforementioned methods, but only cost about $4.