hello! recently, i noticed that my past 1-3 years have been spent largely on research for pedagogy/metalearning/mastery/fluency/skill-acquisition. i couldn't connect the dots looking forward and i'm excited to see how god unfolds the plot further, but it turns out i rly rly rly dont like bad pedagogy and i rly enjoy making asymmetric bets to optimize metalearning.
it turns out it's possible to make learning wayyyy more efficient than most people think (by multiple orders of magnitude). and many fields are largely preparadigmatic wrt metalearning, and their SOTA pedagogies have lots of nontrivial low-hanging fruit! and it seems like there's so few people working on this problem!∗
specifically, i'm currently curious about...
- how can we get untalented beginners to reproducibly become conversationally fluent at music? (i.e. able to play by ear (mimic), improvise (speak), compose (write) at an HSK4 level)
- currently working on a precise/unconfusing/rigorous generalization of particular micro mental motions outlined in DRSB by betty edwards
- how can we reproducibly improve baseline wellbeing by multiple orders of magnitude? (i.e. rigorous wholesome happymaxxing)
- currently working on [lovingly untangling our inner world]∗∗ via [internal family systems / coherence therapy], and [undoing particular 10-40hz mental motions that are the cause of ~all suffering] via [meditation / christian mysticism]∗∗∗
oh also i hang out at brown studying apma cs and physics
[firstname] [underscore] [lastname] [at] brown [dot] edu
guitar, tennis, mandarin chinese, christian community, protestant theology, second language acquisition theory, ai reasoning, contemplative studies, kung fu panda trilogy, bowling physics, attachment theory, classical piano, competitive programming, chorus, table tennis
nick cammarata's twitter account, "no bad parts" by richard schwartz, "drawing on the right side of the brain" by betty edwards, "time for god" by jacques philippe, kung fu panda trilogy
1 john 4:12, john 1:1, john 15:5, 1 cor 3:6-7, matt 11:28-30, isaiah 43:1, 2 cor 5:7, prov 3:5, matt 6:33, prov 3:6, 1 john 4:19, matt 20:28, eph 2:1-10, * matt 9:37-38, ** john 15:9-11, *** matt 13:44-45