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<description><![CDATA[I'm Mark. I taught over a thousand elementary school aged children during my 20s and I believe almost anything can be learned. Not only that, but it's fun! What's at the core of most games? It's acquiring and mastering a set of increasingly difficult skills.

I've studied foreign languages on my own, become a SV software engineer as an outsider in my early 30s, taught myself to draw and more... but I didn't do it very efficiently, especially at the beginning. There are a lot of strategies that can help you learn more effectively and that's what this podcast is all about. ]]></description>
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<itunes:subtitle>Become a relentless learning machine</itunes:subtitle>
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<itunes:subtitle>The beginning</itunes:subtitle>
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<p>Alchemist.Camp has been running for a year and it's time for a new experiment.</p>

<p>In this episode, Mark gives a brief introduction and shares his motivations and plans for this podcast.</p>
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<p>In this episode Mark talks about investing time (and money) into evergreen skills vs skills that won't be worth much in a few years.</p>
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<itunes:season>1</itunes:season>
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<itunes:subtitle>the algorithm for memorizing anything</itunes:subtitle>
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<p>In this episode Mark talks about the forgetting curve, flashcards, Leitner Boxes, Supermemo, Anki, Quizlet and how to use them to learn and remember languages, mathematics, programming languages, geography or pretty much anything.</p>

<h3>Links</h3>

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<li><a href="https://www.wired.com/2008/04/ff-wozniak/?currentPage=all">Want to remember everything you'll ever learn?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1139577516">Anki deck of 200k+ Jeopardy! questions &amp; answers</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcBBJd_4OIM">Roger Craig breaks Jeopardy! daily record</a></li>
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<itunes:duration>00:12:24</itunes:duration>
<itunes:subtitle>learn from the world's best</itunes:subtitle>
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<p>In this episode Mark talks about the pluses and minuses of different MOOC platforms and how to choose the best one for your learning needs and goals.</p>

<p>See:
- <a href="https://coursera.com" rel="nofollow">Coursera</a>
- <a href="https://www.coursera.org/" rel="nofollow">edX</a>
- <a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/" rel="nofollow">Khan Academy</a>
- <a href="https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm" rel="nofollow">MIT Open Courseware</a></p>
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