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37 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 31 January 2013 10:16AM

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Comment author: arundelo 31 January 2013 05:25:19PM *  8 points [-]

Well said.

We CFAR workshop participants got workbooks containing materials for the various sessions (and some other things, like the rationality habits checklist). I took my notes right in the workbook. Sometime today or tomorrow I'm going to start going through the workbook and transferring the stuff I want to capture to the computer. I've started a list of things to think about while doing so. Below, "this" means "this tool, concept, exercise, worked example of an exercise, personal failure mode, etc.".

  • Do I want to put this into my spaced repetition system?
  • Do I want to do this in the future? If so, how can I make that happen? (E.g., schedule a time or put it in my to-do list system.)
  • How much can I improve at this, and how valuable would improving at this be?

I've made a couple other comments about the workshop: thank-you to my hosts (I showed up a day before and stayed a few days after); impressions of the workshop written for my family and friends.