> Youtube

Not really. I learned far more from YouTube in subjects and topics that I was deeply interested in. School or college teachers didn't go that deep.

Whether it's pc or not, there are there are bad teachers. I skipped those classes in college and learned from MIT OCW and random tutorials.

So, YT did replace some teachers for me, and it continues to do so for many people.

I didn't. People who think they're learning from YouTube are mostly not learning, just thinking they did. I watched someone design a common-base amplifier. Can I design a common-base amplifier now? No, I can't. I now have a slight awareness of what one does, but I couldn't design it.

> Its why sites that are "well designed" but obviously just use a squarespace or wix template feel so cheap.

Same. I honestly am very satisfied with the aesthetics of free Wordpress blogs. Like Terry Tao has. I also have one.

I see Work as the mode where you can generate and edit files without manual intervention.

I tell chat to recommend me some books based on some of my favourites. Chat does it. I read some of them, liked some, disliked few. I give chat that information, it recommends me based on those, now I don't know which of the entries are relevant or not.

I don't want lock-in, so I try my best to tell it to generate copy-able MD syntax that I have to manually paste to an editor.

With Work mode, I tell the model to just maintain an append only markdown file, where it writes "still recommended", "not recommended any more", etc. beside titles. It does this after each turn.

This is just an example. Work - I see it as a mode that can maintain, update, and edit a file.

It's very convenient.

But Amazon does give a seamless experience.

I don't have the urge to fight all my devices.

Well, I won't do it, as although books are mainly for reading, they also are beautiful products that I am not willing to destroy. They also look great on shelves and work as decor.

I have faced the problem of books being too big. What I do is I just get an additional copy on my Kindle. For classics this is free, for newer ones, the price is one-sixth to one-third. This is justified because the need is rare.

I read the physical book during the daytime at my home. I travel with the Kindle and take it to my bed.

Not that much ground covering, but you should listen to Steven Strogatz's podcasts - The Joy of x, and The Joy of Why!

I go through chosen episodes from it regularly, and I can vouch for its quality.

The podcast covers a niche that is not common.

But all the episodes are not equally good, of course, and much depends on the guests.

I really liked the Carlo Rovelli episode (#2), the Tyler Cowen episode (#19), Kip Thorne (#24), Steven Strogatz (#41), etc.

I have always used Jupyter to work in Julia. Beside .jl files, of course.

Same habit with Python.

The Ju in Jupyter does stand for Julia, you know.

Pluto was a meh experience and I didn't keep using it.

Same for me. When I was High School and uni, there was still copying from Wikipedia, obscure blogs, paying people, etc. but I did all my own work. It was a rewarding experience and breath of fresh air from 'remembering-regurgitating learning'.

Even the topics that I didn't enjoy, I did the essays, presentations, assignments myself, and that led me to learn at least something in those topics.

They are still doing it, and not just in Kenya. The bar has just risen, and that's all. Unis are using Pangram, GPT-0 and a lot of plagiarism detectors, and the cheaters are using ghostwriters to get homeworks, assignments done that pass the AI detectors.