Test Information Space
0:00 Note-taking 0:16 How to take notes for a new class 0:59 What actually happens when you take notes 1:23 What good note taking looks like 2:30 Good note-taking allows for deep processing 4:20 Intuitive vs logical 7:23 Should I type or handwrite my notes? 12:48 How do you transition to freehand notes? 17:31 How can you tell if your notes are effective? 20:26 Getting questions right doesn't matter (An author wants to put the text in the right form for the reader to mull. Items and relations. The basis of mathematics. Symbolism influences ethos. Conversely, the goons can likely tell who is most likely to fail parole. Prisoner dilemma as group theory.)
03:36 The skills you NEED for learning in lectures
06:09 Learn to manage your cognitive load
09:15 What should I do before the lecture?
12:35 The best questions to ask during the lecture
17:12 Filtering information during the lecture
(Does this apply to juries?)
Google Gemini summary: According to the video, the lesson learned from the talk is that planning and learning are complementary to each other and both are necessary for robots to achieve intelligence.
The speaker, Russ Tedrake, argues that while foundation models are powerful and will play an important role in the future of robotics, planning is still an important aspect that should not be ignored. He emphasizes that planning can improve the efficiency of learning by guiding the exploration process and focusing on the most promising actions.
The talk also introduces GCS (Graphs of Convex Sets) as a powerful tool for planning in robotics. GCS allows robots to reason about the uncertainties in their environment and make decisions that are robust to these uncertainties.
Here are the key points from the talk:
Planning and learning are complementary: Planning can improve the efficiency of learning by guiding the exploration process. GCS is a powerful tool for planning in robotics: GCS allows robots to reason about uncertainties in their environment. Behavior cloning is a useful tool for robotics: Behavior cloning can be used to learn from human demonstrations. Foundation models are powerful but not a silver bullet: Planning is still important in the age of foundation models.
He likened the book to a particle accelerator that smashes atoms together to study their parts, such as quarks. In “Deep Utopia,” he said, he smashed values into one another to study their composition.
(The author also spreads the topics across a week. Each day, they go through sentiment, logic, and symbolism. So it may be mimicking how the parts of a brain do interpretation. Or that could be the journaling routine. As mnemonic for both self and reader.)
April 6th, 2024.
Incidentally, MindStudio also has a hackathon going over Discord from April 5th.