
”Fake insights”—in mathematics education, and in personal development / spiritual teaching.https://meaningness.com/metablog/fake-insights …
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Replying to @Meaningness
I think Putnam is like the old Chinese civil service exams. Situated such that the best will often excel, even tho useless.
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Replying to @St_Rev
Or, maybe, like IQ tests, which also depend on dumb puzzles, but do correlate highly with later achievement
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Replying to @Meaningness
IQ is more like weightlifting, Putnam more like synchronized swimming
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Replying to @St_Rev @Meaningness
TBH I don't understand most Putnam probs even with the solution! They tend to be abt super advanced elementary math
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Replying to @St_Rev @Meaningness
Like arcane bits of calculus and elementary number theory. Stuff you'll never think of, have to have seen before
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Replying to @St_Rev
Yes, that fits my (ancient, vague) memory. Both topics I loathed anyway
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
I like calculus in retrospect. I could still happily ignore number theory for eternity, but maybe someone could get me excited if they were
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one month of calculus is good because differentiation == seeing the fnords if your neural network has in it the generalization capacity God gave a snail
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