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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
this is maybe worth elaborating on in more detail. there's a term i picked up from CFAR, "overlearning," which was used to refer to where you learn a new concept and suddenly start to see it everywhere, like "oh shit is everything just trauma" etc.
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
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Replying to @himbodhisattva and @sam_havens
i think having a hammer and turning everything into nails is good actually as long as you remember that it's temporary
8:50 PM · Jan 24, 2021Twitter Web App
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
and like it can get annoying and it's easy to make fun of if you don't share the obsession but i think overlearning is good actually saturate the concept in your system real good so you can see all the implications of it properly. really digest the shit out of it
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
just worth keeping in mind that ideally it should be temporary. at some point you've 80-20'd the concept or it's no longer your new edge / bottleneck and you can give yourself permission to move on to something else (obviously talking to myself here)
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
it's like okay sometimes you have a crush on and fall in deeply in love with a new concept and it can be cute and we can all enjoy the energy together but just remember that crushes end and also if it gets too abusive you always have the option of leaving
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overlearning if it is reactive you can also frame it as a meta learning tactic of trying a new transform (framework) on old examples simple eg you learn to rotate images so for all images you've seen before or see again you try rotating them to see if it gives new insight