HATs and other add-ons • Re: Official Foundation Pi 4 case has no holes for airflow?

I think the major problem, as with the tech side, is that people may have different approaches to gaining knowledge:

• Don't bother.
• Guess.
• Assume that the latest blog they've read is correct, without any fact checking.
• Ignore available sources and ask (possibly ill-informed) questions.
• Read the docs.
• Research thoroughly from multiple sources.
• Get a Ph.D in the subject.
• Don't believe anything.

How about forming an educational charity to improve people's research skills?

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In your list some of those are not approaches to gaining knowlege, they are approaches to being ignorant, but that's your point, I guess.

Yes, thinking skills, in general are needed, as well as research skills.

Stuff like propositional logic applies to general knowledge as well as computer science.

Teach logic and critical thinking from a young age. Later, if desired the skills can be applied to computer science and tecnical writing. Of course one would want to take the formal courses such as discrete maths.

Oh yeah, and I suffer from believing Wikipedia.

I was mostly curious myself so I read the blog post and Wikipedia and refrained from doing original research.

If we are talking about gaining knowledge in general, personal experience, observation, and experimentation are also on the list.

Sorry, I guess we hijacked this thread. I'm bad about that.

Anyway, a lot of knowledge comes from people tinkering, experimentation, and using the scientific method. You can't learn aspects of field biology if you don't spent time observing life in the field, for example.

The fact that the RPi gear is inexpensive and runs an open source OS is in my view was the key to unlocking an entire ecosystem of tinkering with computers previously restricted to those who could afford a regular microcomputer.

Excuse me while I read up on UK Corporate law...

Statistics: Posted by breaker — Thu Sep 05, 2024 5:44 pm

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