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Re:Ask HN: What's your learning strategy? by mikewarot on Sunday February 13, 2022 @12:23PM (#30323444)
>I try to focus on extracting the nature and patterns of relationships, instead of the specific details.

You're a mapper, like me. The only reason I ever want to learn details is if they are important corner cases.

>In tech this can be an obstacle when communicating because many engineers have an extremely fine-grained memory, seemingly all the time.

Those folks are packers, they know all the corner cases, and worry incessantly about them.

Google "mappers vs packers" to learn more, far more.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your learning strategy? by peakaboo on Sunday February 13, 2022 @03:40PM (#30325429)
Interesting but there are never just two kinds of thinking. I bet many people fall into other categories that may not even have a name or a description at this point.
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Re:Ask HN: What's your learning strategy? by mikewarot on Monday February 14, 2022 @05:13PM (#30339122)
Perhaps it's best to think of this as one of many axis of trade-off that the brain makes to simplify the task of cognition? Later we may learn that there are several traits that tend to correlate and make this up, but it is a useful tool to reason about it, despite the details.
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Re:Ask HN: What's your learning strategy? by d82nsjk9 on Monday February 14, 2022 @11:45AM (#30334171)
Agreed, hypothetical dualities like this are extremely unlikely when it comes to something as complex as the brain
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Re:Ask HN: What's your learning strategy? by tra3 on Monday February 14, 2022 @12:49AM (#30328786)
I'm curious about this concept. Some quick googling yielded "The Programmer's Stone" [0], seemingly about how mapping related to programming. Any other sources?

[0]: http://programmersstone.com

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Re:Ask HN: What's your learning strategy? by sandman008 on Thursday February 17, 2022 @03:02AM (#30370596)
Thanks for terminology. Will check it out
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Re:Ask HN: What's your learning strategy? by badwriter32 on Sunday February 13, 2022 @01:58PM (#30324471)
Very interesting
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