Is the author Petros Christodoulou, the computer scientist cited here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mWdm_bkAAAAJ&hl=en ?
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#12I 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".
that's really interesting, can you explain this bit a bit more? Or let me know what to google to learn more about this?
"The process of simulating actions is the process that changes the structure of your mind"
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#13Is the author Petros Christodoulou, the computer scientist cited here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mWdm_bkAAAAJ&hl=en ?
yes that's me, how comes?
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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…
Ohh, that's a cool opinion!!! Thank you ^_^
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how you mean? this link doesn't load for you? https://saveall.ai/blog/learning-is-remembering
Just loaded, after 20 attempts. ;)
hmmm very interesting, not sure why that could be happening! I can see loads of people are reading it now but i would have thought our server (arranged on vercel) could handle it
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#18I wrote this and would love to know what you think about it. Am particularly interested in hearing any reasons why it's wrong
assuming our brain is a CPU, the 4-working-queue-short-memory is basically our L1-cache. We need L2 and hard drive for longer term memory, otherwise the system can not really function well.
however long-term storage is just one vital factor, another one is the 'deep learning' neurons that understand the content it stores and more important to connect the dots among various neurons.
we need both: understand and store. Neurons do both for us.
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#20It's not wrong, it just doesn't cover much breadth of learning nor how humans learn over time. Also it doesn't consider different learning styles. It's seeing learning as just chunks of conceptual information where that is reducing the problem too far.
It's not just some simple "move from short term memory -> long term memory" to make more room. If it was, we would all optimize for that outcome. People would have written books about learning that glorified this concept. Teachers would be teaching it in schools to have students score better on tests.
Learning is much more a lifelong mindset akin to the famous Socrates quote of "I know that I know nothing". Or even the idea that we change through the books we read / things we learn, but don't remember much of what we did.
So I don't agree it is all about remembering because like GI Joe said, knowing is half the battle.