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“Transfer Learning in Humans” by niplav
I examine the literature on transfer learning in humans. Far
transfer is difficult to achieve, best
candidate interventions are to practice at the edge of one's
ability and make many mistakes,
evaluate mistakes after one has made
them, learn from training programs modeled after expert tacit
knowledge, and talk about on one's strategies
when practicing the domain.
When learning, one would like to progress faster, and learn things
faster. So it makes sense to search for interventions that speed up
learning (effective learning techniques), enable using knowledge
and knowledge patterns from one learned domain in a new domain if
appropriate (transfer learning), and make it easier to find further
learning-accelerating techniques (meta-learning).
Summary.
I've spent ~20 hours reading and skimming papers
and parts of books from different fields, and
extracting the results from them, resulting spreadsheet
here,
google doc with notes
here.
I've looked at [...]
---
Outline:
(03:49) Recommendations
(05:30) What I Am Looking For
(07:00) Candidate Interventions
(07:04) Effective Learning Techniques
(09:12) What Didnt Work
(09:59) Far Transfer
(12:44) Negative Transfer
(13:05) Error Management Training
(14:45) Pólya Method
(16:48) Accelerated Expertise
(18:56) Inducing Transfer
(19:43) Dual N-Back and Brain Training
(20:07) Judgmental Forecasting
(21:37) Creating Self-Improving Institutions
(24:23) How Id Proceed If I Was Further Researching Transfer
(25:00) Questions
(26:30) Context
(26:42) Appendix A: My Impression of the Literature
(27:25) See Also
The original text contained 6 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.
---
First published:
April 21st, 2024
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QTTCRytvyFteJgPwg/transfer-learning-in-humans
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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By LessWrongI examine the literature on transfer learning in humans. Far
transfer is difficult to achieve, best
candidate interventions are to practice at the edge of one's
ability and make many mistakes,
evaluate mistakes after one has made
them, learn from training programs modeled after expert tacit
knowledge, and talk about on one's strategies
when practicing the domain.
When learning, one would like to progress faster, and learn things
faster. So it makes sense to search for interventions that speed up
learning (effective learning techniques), enable using knowledge
and knowledge patterns from one learned domain in a new domain if
appropriate (transfer learning), and make it easier to find further
learning-accelerating techniques (meta-learning).
Summary.
I've spent ~20 hours reading and skimming papers
and parts of books from different fields, and
extracting the results from them, resulting spreadsheet
here,
google doc with notes
here.
I've looked at [...]
---
Outline:
(03:49) Recommendations
(05:30) What I Am Looking For
(07:00) Candidate Interventions
(07:04) Effective Learning Techniques
(09:12) What Didnt Work
(09:59) Far Transfer
(12:44) Negative Transfer
(13:05) Error Management Training
(14:45) Pólya Method
(16:48) Accelerated Expertise
(18:56) Inducing Transfer
(19:43) Dual N-Back and Brain Training
(20:07) Judgmental Forecasting
(21:37) Creating Self-Improving Institutions
(24:23) How Id Proceed If I Was Further Researching Transfer
(25:00) Questions
(26:30) Context
(26:42) Appendix A: My Impression of the Literature
(27:25) See Also
The original text contained 6 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.
---
First published:
April 21st, 2024
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QTTCRytvyFteJgPwg/transfer-learning-in-humans
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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