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I’m still working through the exercises to the Feynman’s Lectures. There are 36 of them to the Chapter 4! Doing exercises turned out to be the best way to understand something. I want to move forward faster with lectures and I have to stop myself constantly. It’s easy to fool yourself and think you understand the material after reading a lecture, only I open a new exercise and realize that there are gaps.
Mochi helps a lot. It’s surprising that this isn’t taught in schools and universities. Spaced repetition might be the only reliable and proven way to enhance memory. As Michael Nilsen says, “Anki makes memory a choice, rather than a haphazard event, to be left to chance.” It feels like superpower.
Movies watched
- First Man. Damien Chazelle brought depth to the story and focused on personal drama, stepping away from all the stories surrounding a well-known person.
- Oppenheimer. I rewatched it again with subtitles this time. It was better. Still, this movie lacks complexity and depth.
- Flow. An indie animation without any dialogues and with interesting style (probably shaped by its budget).
- The Wild Robot. As someone on Letterboxd put it, “the best Pixar cartoon was made by Dreamworks”. It’s an overstatement, but it’s a good cartoon.
Reading
Finished reading Bullshit Jobs. It resonated with my thoughts that many modern jobs are mind-numbing, and many more make the world a worse place. Still, it was quite repetitive and could’ve been half its size.
Dropped The Invention of Science after a few chapters. This turned out not to be a history of inventions, but more a philosophical work on how that was happening — how people talked and thought about it. It might be good, but it wasn’t what I expected.
Currently reading The Life of Isaac Newton, which has been good so far.