I recognize myself a lot when he talks about the feeling of losing knowledge acquired years ago. I would be very interested with MathAcademy if it can help me fight this!
I am also wondering if it can help me learn new knowledge, especially new topics in maths I have never learned before?
Also what is the difference between MathAcademy and Brilliant?
I have read many skeptical opinions on Brilliant, so it would be interesting to have a comparison.
Brilliant doesn't have spaced repetition, it has much less coverage and doesn't have enough exercises to let you really master subject, but it's an easy to use mobile app with nice visualizations that can give a conceptual understanding of many things. If MathAcademy and Brilliant covers the same topic, Brilliant may be more visually appealing and contain animations. Brilliant is nice for getting overview of many things, but doesn't really go that deep.
MathAcademy is great for learning new topics that you haven't studied before, provided they have a course in that subject.
I've tried both and am currently using MathAcademy to learn new knowledge. It's very, very good at incrementally building out concepts and gradually adding complexity. I had no luck at all with Brilliant. MathAcademy practically forces you to bust out a pencil and paper and dive into problems, but Brilliant was more like watching a kind of neat YouTube video on a topic.
I reckon it can and I am about to give it a shot, myself. It sounds like a Duolingo sort of structure, which can be boiled down to "use it or lose it" which is not hard to support with compelling evidence. Say what one will about Duolingo, but my Spanish and German are passable because of it (no, I am not fluent, but I can get by in common situations). Ideally, MathAcademy will cultivate the same results.
I used to use them.
I really loved the fact that you can ask questions really freely and get quite raw answers (I don't like the so called "reddit style").
Then I stopped browsing them since it felt like doomscrolling even though these platforms were not designed to encourage that.
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I would have been curious to read about WhatsApp since it is a widely used app.
Also for youtube I use NewPipe which I find incredibly good (no ads, can manage playlists and audio only).
In 2018 I attended one of Yann LeCun's talk, one person basically asked the same question than you, more precisely the question was "what advice can you give to young people/high school students who are about to start choosing their career?".
He explained that AI will mainly replace "basic" jobs like forklift operator or any job that needs repetitive tasks. Simply because these jobs have no value.
On the other hand, he said that at least two kind of jobs will survive : jobs where you create value (like artists, creator etc.) because people will always desire something that took someone's time and attention to make. And jobs where you take care of others (teachers, nurse etc.) because no one want to be taken care of by a machine (read Asimov's novel The fun they had on that matter).
Also what is the difference between MathAcademy and Brilliant? I have read many skeptical opinions on Brilliant, so it would be interesting to have a comparison.