Re:When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of...
by _glass on Thursday May 11, 2023 @05:07AM
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Exactly. My compsci prof was forcing us to learn so much by heart, but then it's internalized and you start to think in those terms. Right now I am writing my PhD thesis in management and in the beginning I didn't have all of those papers really in my head. But now slowly that knowledge accumulates and I can think through things I couldn't think before. But on the other hand, I now think, how could I not understand that, it's trivial. And to add, it is the same for literature and poems. If you know a poem by heart, it's not just fancy to recite it, but that you start to really incorporate part of that language.
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Re:When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of...
by ethbr0 on Thursday May 11, 2023 @09:09AM
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I think of it in terms of computer memory levels.
There are some computations (synthesis) that require so many (non-front loadable) memory accesses that it's impractical to do them from memory with significant delay (books), because the number_of_accesses * access_time dominates the project time.
Instead, you must have a working set of core information (or at least pointers to information) in low-latency memory (your brain).
Example: How much longer would it take me to do a multi-digit multiplication if I had to look up the process for multiplication in a book for every digit multiplication I did? And what if that multiplication were just one of many in the higher-level math problem I was trying to solve? (Then generalize to any problem that requires a core base of knowledge)
Re:When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of...
by kristianbrigman on Thursday May 11, 2023 @09:55AM
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It is very similar to caching performance impacts. And like you say, sometimes performance is just faster, and sometimes it actually enables functionality…