Yes, that was misstated. What I meant was that chunking is a realization of the principle of focusing on concepts instead of facts since chunks are the residual output of knowledge acquisition that actually sticks in the long term.

Maybe I misunderstood chunking when I watched the class. I took it to mean grouping items to remember into a larger whole. Orthogonal to concept vs fact.

I can remember my credit card numbers because I have chunked the digits into a whole. Or at least that's what I thought was meant by chunking.

Now that I've been reflecting on it, I seem to recall what you are talking about. Stepping up the ladder of abstraction...

Sorry, it's been a while since I watched it.

Yeah I used to remember it being slang for chatting in the BBS (multinode e.g. Wildcat) days because of the loud "chunk" (or clunk) sound of keyboards in the 90s.