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Intellectual Progress (Individual-Level)
Note-Taking
Zettelkasten
Mental Imagery / Visualization
Problem Formulation & Conceptualization
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Untapped Potential at 13-18
belkarx
2mo
53
368
How To Write Quickly While Maintaining Epistemic Rigor
johnswentworth
1y
35
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Is a PhD necessary to contribute meaningfully to a field?
TrudosKudos
2mo
7
27
Finding Great Tutors
Ulisse Mini
2mo
5
16
App idea to help with reading STEM textbooks (feedback request)
AllAmericanBreakfast
5mo
8
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The Best Textbooks on Every Subject
lukeprog
11y
394
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How to Do Research. v1
Pablo Repetto
3mo
4
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Review: How to Read a Book (Mortimer Adler, Charles Van Doren)
Elizabeth
2y
8
16
Deliberate practice for research?
Alex_Altair
2mo
2
13
Five routes of access to scientific literature
AllAmericanBreakfast
5mo
4
306
The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship
lukeprog
11y
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Forum participation as a research strategy
Wei_Dai
3y
43
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What one paper would you show to someone to get them excited about your field?
oh54321
5mo
1
123
Learning By Writing
HoldenKarnofsky
10mo
7
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Hold Off On Proposing Solutions
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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20
When do you visualize (or not) while doing math?
Alex_Altair
27d
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How (not) to choose a research project
Garrett Baker
4mo
11
4
How the ---- did Feynman Get Here !?
George3d6
5mo
8
84
How to do theoretical research, a personal perspective
Mark Xu
4mo
4
69
How to take smart notes (Ahrens, 2017)
Yuxi_Liu
3y
12
102
What makes people intellectually active?
abramdemski
3y
65
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Deliberate and spontaneous creativity
Kaj_Sotala
13y
30
16
Lakshmi's Magic Rope: An Intuitive Explanation of Ramanujan Primes
AllAmericanBreakfast
1y
21
11
How would you take math notes to make the most of them?
Eugleo
2y
2
14
What Resources on Journal Analysis are Available?
Zachary Robertson
2y
5
30
How can one train philosophical skill?
abramdemski
1y
47
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Film Study for Research
jsteinhardt
1y
7
211
The Zettelkasten Method
abramdemski
3y
90