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Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?

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Re: Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?

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My high school had majors and one of them was effectively EE; the 14/15 year olds in my major had those formulas down inside of 3 weeks... what EEs did you know that couldn't outperform teenagers? ...I mean, I didn't even go to that great of a college and no one would have made it past the second year of EE without memorizing 10x more formulas than that. I'm just completely lost on how it's even possible to have an E…

> I'm just completely lost on how it's even possible to have an EE degree and needing a card Amazing, isn't it? The word "cheating" comes to mind.

I'm pretty skeptical that cheating to that level is plausible. Ohm's law is so fundamental that finishing an EE degree without knowing it would be akin to writing a paper on Gravity's Rainbow without knowing the basic rules of grammar.

Re: Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?

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I would describe myself exactly the same way as you, and I've always been that way (noticed it at first in school where I would take forever to hand in the memorisation half of an exam but finish the analytical half in record time.) I recommend giving spaced repetition a serious go. It doesn't cost much and you might be surprised how far it takes even someone like you. It completely changed how I view the role of mem…

I'm this same way -- very strong semantic memory, astoundingly bad episodic memory. I've been getting into spaced repetition and I was curious if you have ideas on what to memorize via SRS? I don't really have things in my job or intellectual pursuits that clearly lend themselves to flashcard style memorization, so I've been doing SRS on sort of quasi-useless things to help 1) get in the habit of SRS and 2) build mor…

I forgot to reply to this and don't want to write a long answer now in case you won't see it. If you're still interested, shoot an email to hn@xkqr.org and I'll give more details. Sorry for taking so long!
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