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This looks similar to https://metacademy.org. I am curious how these maps are built and how resources are being selected (methodology-wise)?

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Metacademy has been great to get me to ramp up for my course's material quickly. I hope such maps will properly evolve across domains. It seems like the web is a great way to discover the structure of these maps, but it takes more time than it could.

Author here. I was greatly inspired by this website. It was my goal to actually combine metacademy's idea of solving the dependency problems of knowledge and do it in a similar way but visually.

But how do you choose which resources (books, articles, courses..) to include? Is it performed algorithmically or by hand? I was working on the similar project (dependency trees for concepts) and the biggest roadblock I faced was the addition of new resources, since it is laborious, doesn't scale well and is pretty subjective.

Currently the entirety of the mind map was hand picked and curated by me. I did use the internet a lot though as there are quite many threads online that have recommendations on what the 'best ways of learning X' is.

I also try to ask help from other people, ideally experts in their fields on how to best structure the content. Mathematics one is quite challenging just because everything is really so connected as far as ideas go.

I hope as this projects gets popular, more people will be willing to help and improve it. It is a collaborative process after all.

I've had pretty good success crowdsourcing recommendations for https://www.findlectures.com by asking offering a weekly email of talks, and prompting people for recommended speakers / conferences on sign-up.

I have a separate form on the site to get suggestions, but the email signup one has better quality because it weed out people who want to spam the site with their own content.

Hey Gary, I love what you have done with find lectures. I use it quite often actually to find material. I am thinking of perhaps making a newsletter for this project saying 'what is new' in the mind map. What do you think?

Yeah, I think that would be interesting. Let me know if you make one!

I did. :)

Here it is (bit.ly/learn-anything-letter).

Signed up! I'll be interested to see how the Patreon thing goes as well.

By the way, while researching about Metacademy I have stumbled upon their developer group[0] where they were discussing challenges they were facing, thought you may find it useful. Good luck! [0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/metacademy-dev

This particular map looks to be curated by the author of the GitHub repo.

Thanks for that link - it happens to have information at the intersection of several of my interests.

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