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gwern comments on Please share your reading habits/techniques/strategies - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gwern 13 September 2013 05:05:54PM 2 points [-]

Then I had to talk about them for an hour or so with someone far better informed on the topic than me. I retained far, far more about subjects by doing this than I did about subjects which I just read about or went to lectures on

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_Sigma_Problem comes to mind.

Comment author: peter_hurford 13 September 2013 08:48:53PM *  3 points [-]

Here's the fixed link

Comment author: gwern 13 September 2013 09:40:02PM 1 point [-]

The link is not broken, LW is just on a really old Reddit codebase which doesn't auto-link HTTPS (like Reddit does now).

Comment author: peter_hurford 14 September 2013 01:44:07AM *  2 points [-]

Well, there's a link that is clickable, at least.

Notably, copying and pasting the link you provided doesn't work either because you need a space between "2" and "Sigma".

Comment author: somervta 14 September 2013 04:57:50AM 0 points [-]

And for 'comes to mind' to not be part of the link.

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