Comment on Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem.

• olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s fair, but looking at papers is not really a good entry point for people getting into skills like the title of the post is talking about.

  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.

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