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Learning Is Remembering

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Re: Learning Is Remembering

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p-christ wrote: post #2

I wrote this and would love to know what you think about it. Am particularly interested in hearing any reasons why it's wrong

Thank you for writing it. I have been feeling something similar. The ability to truly understand requires the ability to know few terms and what they mean. I thought it was only me who felt it like so. Most of my friends who venture on creative tasks are able to recall a lot of things because of practice and without having to be distracted!

But does it effect the field like programming? When programming, if I can remember the context, then I can easily search it (research paper, books, documentation, forums etc) Now, with Co-Pilot, isn't it effectively beneficial to understand a topic and develop a general problem solving framework for ourselves so that we can let the AI do it's thing?

What are your opinions regarding it?

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vladsanchez wrote: post #4
p-christ wrote: post #2

I wrote this and would love to know what you think about it. Am particularly interested in hearing any reasons why it's wrong

Slash-Dotted!? Site doesn't load. (shrug)

how you mean? this link doesn't load for you?

https://saveall.ai/blog/learning-is-remembering

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Post by kardianos »

p-christ wrote: post #2

I wrote this and would love to know what you think about it. Am particularly interested in hearing any reasons why it's wrong

Learning is memory, in a sense. More broadly learning the the physical structure that process leaves on your brain. When you truly learn, you do less remembering and more simulating. The process of simulating actions (multi-step addition algorithms in elementary school or wrote memorization of math-facts) is the process that changes the structure of your mind that isn't dependent on "memorization".

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Post by p-christ »

going_ham wrote: post #3
p-christ wrote: post #2

I wrote this and would love to know what you think about it. Am particularly interested in hearing any reasons why it's wrong

Thank you for writing it. I have been feeling something similar. The ability to truly understand requires the ability to know few terms and what they mean. I thought it was only me who felt it like so. Most of my friends who venture on creative tasks are able to recall a lot of things because of practice and without having to be distracted! But does it effect the field like programming? When programming, if I can rem…

Even with programming I would argue you'd be a much better programmer if you can remember more. Obviously sometimes you're going to have to look things up but the more you remember the more problems you'll be able to solve.

Specifically you won't be able to solve a programming problem if the answer requires you combining over 4 things you don't have in your long-term memory (even if you can look them up). This is the main reason why Jeff Dean is a better programmer than me even though we both have access to google - he has more knowledge & experience of programming in his memory than me that means that even though we can both look things up he is able to solve way more problems than me.

Co-pilot slightly changes the type of thing that's valuable to remember, but it doesn't change the importance of remembering things. I think, as you implied, co-pilot probably makes remembering some types of syntax or boilerplate less important.

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