like i can remember ideas and stuff and at best i can run code myself and mess with it but like it's 600 word technical book, every word is teaching about something, i lose all the motivation to complete books because by the time i am half way through i have already forgotten 2/3 of it, reading same book over and over again is too time consuming. any tips? how do you do it?
>>34908426There are only 2 ways:1. do problems, shitton of problems, either problems and exerciese in the textbook itself, or other (problem) books, or you make the questions yourself, anki, cloze, active recall2. rewrite the textbook in your own words, open a latex file and start writingBasically passive consumption like "reading" a textbook, or watching a recorded video lecture is not very effective. Active approach where you engage with the materials is more effective.
>>34908426I know a lot about x86 assembly. If you want a run down on that or some info in general on computers I can help.
>>34908426basically what the other anons said. memory/retaining information is determined mainly by genetics and upbringing
https://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/socratic/sinst/book/liii.pdfRead chapter 34 of this, gives a detailed breakdown on how to cricially engage with a technical textbook.
>>34909249I can’t open the link.
>>34908426Do every single exercise and summarise each paragraph in a single sentence.
>>34908426By getting a job.University is not a place to write all the knowledge of centuries in your brain. It helps you be aware of content that exists and know where to look for it when you need it. The use of that knowledge branches still into1. Draw new conclussions from specialist understanding2. Build a big tree of concepts to recall what you needFor the first one, You do a PhD or get a job and make a single subject your career for the rest of your life. For the second one, don't put so much fucking effort, just pack together concepts and write examples of use in a notebook for personal consult.You will forget everything you know about every subject if you don't use it for 3 years, that's why nobody wants to match old graduates, why USMLE has a limit of 3 tries, why NEETs are so fucking doomed.
>>34909479Yep that must be why all software and hardware today are not garbage today.
>>34909249wtf it's so big
