cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10828079

We all get bored sometimess and scroll mindlessly through various social media feeds, like instagram (fuck you), reddit (fuck you) or lemmy (no offense, love you guys).

Most of the time content is a wild mix of everything, from news to memes and educational stuff, and very hard to filter out.

Is there anything out there that contains educational stuff only? where you can just sit there, scroll through it and learn something. thinking of like a short text or image showing some facts, or some math examples, or physics, or whatever.

  • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    That would be considered as mindless scrolling through pop-science tabloids. That isn’t going to make you smart, or educate you about anything. Actual learning is really hard, and takes a lot of effort.

    Currently, I’m finishing “Modern C” by Jens Gustedt - which is understandable - it’s just me going through C again for better understanding, but the other book I’m reading right now - “Algorithms in C” by Robert Sedgewick is damn hard, and unlike anything I’ve read before. I’ve completed one of the online versions of “Computer Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach” by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne before, and it was the most painful six months of total concentration. It was extremely difficult, but I learnt quite some stuff.

    So yes, books are actually really good. RSS is also pretty neat, if you’re following some good blogs. Personally, I love reading Evan Ovadia’s blog on his new programming language Vale.