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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
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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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