MrNicNac is back

Forum Moderator
Join Date: 2007-10-22
Post Count: 2893

#61590959Tuesday, January 17, 2012 7:08 AM GMT

I mean, do a breadth-first search of all of the stuff you don't know on Wikipedia. Start by reading some page and open/read all the links on that page for which you don't have a very good idea of what the page might say, Repeat for those pages, recursively, and so on. How do you think I know all of the things that I do? A good piece of my knowledge on seemingly random topics comes from reading lots of Wikipedia pages in that fashion.

Rensus

Join Date: 2008-06-19
Post Count: 454

#61591015Tuesday, January 17, 2012 7:13 AM GMT

So, you go around and read wikipedia a lot?

JulienDethurens

Join Date: 2009-06-11
Post Count: 11046

#61591041Tuesday, January 17, 2012 7:16 AM GMT

"I mean, do a breadth-first search of all of the stuff you don't know on Wikipedia. Start by reading some page and open/read all the links on that page for which you don't have a very good idea of what the page might say, Repeat for those pages, recursively, and so on. How do you think I know all of the things that I do? A good piece of my knowledge on seemingly random topics comes from reading lots of Wikipedia pages in that fashion." >:O I wanna install a brute-forcing program on my brain, brute-force Wikipedia and know everything!!!! Nah, kidding. Back when I contributed actively to Wikipedia, I kept going around and getting distracted at reading random pages and following random links.

[rfa#hidefromsearch]

Join Date: 0001-01-01
Post Count: 0

#61591089Tuesday, January 17, 2012 7:21 AM GMT

[rfa#hidefromsearch]

MrNicNac

Join Date: 2008-08-29
Post Count: 28554

#61593179Tuesday, January 17, 2012 12:56 PM GMT

That's how I've been studying nuclear physics. Although, I haven't really gotten into the nuclear part because I went in dept on Lattice QCD - which meant I had to learn a whole lot of math terms. I have a word doc open with at least 25 new terms...