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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] olafurp@lemmy.world -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Google is bad now but we have more powerful tools than Google ever was. LLMs are good for an overview of whatever skill or research you're doing as long as it's a common skill.

Then you have YouTube which takes some navigating but there are a lot of YouTubers that cover recent papers and studies in a field they have a degree in.

Those two together can pretty much give you a road map towards learning a skill. I'd personally avoid all short form videos since explanations will either be oversimplified and they "give you the fish" instead of teaching you how to fish.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

i usually go straight to looking for said research paper rather than going to an influencer on YT.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That's fair, but looking at papers is not really a good entry point for people getting into skills specifically. For information the GOAT it's always Wikipedia but skills is trickier.

Getting into car repairs, plumbing, woodworking and more can be done with YouTube and is frequently recommended by people in the trades.

Getting into running is and weightlifting is also pretty good with YouTube since you have "Göran Winblad" physio and a running coach which does some quality content and "House of hypertrophy" is just weightlifting research news and he makes sure to mention caveats, holes in the research etc.

Notably bad examples are programming and guitar playing which offer close to no value in my opinion but I've heard some people have had success with it. However when you get into music theory YouTube becomes good again.

So in general LLM for basic info on what exists, YouTube for some examples on how to do it but the other >90% should always be practice.