Coaching practices for Deep Learning Techniques
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I score great on the examples I practiced on and feel like I’ve really got it, but I’m secretly worried I’ve just memorized those specific ones
- I watch someone who’s genuinely good at this glance at the same thing I’m staring at and instantly catch something I can’t see at all
- I’m trying to tackle the big, advanced stuff but I’m still laboring over the basics every single step, so my head is so jammed with the mechanics that there’s no room left to actually see the bigger picture or make the leaps that matter.
- My gut read is sharp on the situations I’ve hit over and over, but the moment something falls into a category I’ve barely seen I’ve got nothing to draw on
- I’ve only ever studied the clean textbook versions, so I can spot the perfect example fine
Practices that may help
- Ultralearning: Aggressive, Self-Directed Learning
Ultralearning, a term popularized by Scott Young, is a strategy for intense, self-directed learning projects built on a handful of principles — metalearning, focus, directness, drill, retrieval, and feedback. The framework itself is a practitioner system, but most of its principles rest on well-studied cognitive mechanisms like retrieval practice and transfer. - Transfer testing with novel instances
Periodically test your perceptual skill on examples you have never seen to verify genuine learning.
Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind - Expert-comparison study
Watch or listen to an expert perform and articulate what they are attending to that you are not.
Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind - Build chunks so working memory is freed for diffuse connections
Drill the basics until they are automatic, freeing cognitive resources for higher-level synthesis.
Focused vs Diffuse Thinking - Build pattern libraries through deliberate case exposure
Systematically expose yourself to varied cases in your domain to grow the pattern library recognition draws from.
Recognition-Primed Decision Making - High-variability exposure
Study many different instances of each category to build a discrimination that generalizes.
Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind - Attentional cueing for critical features
Direct attention explicitly to the features that define a category during early learning.
Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind - Build domain-specific pattern recognition through varied exposure
Process many examples of domain patterns until you perceive meaningful chunks rather than individual elements.
Mental Representations: The Expert’s Internal Map - Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind
Perceptual learning is the improvement of discrimination and recognition through practice — training the perceptual system to detect distinctions that were previously invisible. Philip Kellman’s research shows it can be induced rapidly with well-designed training software and produces durable, transfer-ready expertise that complements conceptual instruction. - Spaced perceptual review
Revisit previously trained perceptual categories at expanding intervals to prevent decay.
Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind
Related concerns
- Criterion Learning
Make classification judgments quickly and get immediate feedback to accelerate discrimination learning.
Rapid classification trials
- Feature Learning
Direct attention explicitly to the features that define a category during early learning.
Attentional cueing for critical features
- How Long Does Perceptual Learning Last
Revisit previously trained perceptual categories at expanding intervals to prevent decay.
Spaced perceptual review
- How To Train Perception
Perceptual learning is the improvement of discrimination and recognition through practice — training the perceptual system to detect distinctions that were previously invisible. Philip Kellman’s research shows it can be induced rapidly with well-designed training software and produces durable, transfer-ready expertise that complements conceptual instruction.
- Perceptual Learning Speed
Make classification judgments quickly and get immediate feedback to accelerate discrimination learning.
- Perceptual Learning Training Your Eye Before Your Mind At Work
Perceptual learning is the improvement of discrimination and recognition through practice — training the perceptual system to detect distinctions that were previously invisible. Philip Kellman’s research shows it can be induced rapidly with well-designed training software and produces durable, transfer-ready expertise that complements conceptual instruction.
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