Can't remember where I got this from: "The author starts with a skeleton of an argument and turns it into prose. Your job is to take the prose and excavate the skeleton."
If the excavated skeleton is messy, either a) you're a bad reader, or b) the author is a shit thinker.
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Why can't we just trade skeletons. so many encoding x decoding happening.
Been wondering about "how can we enable lossless transfer of information between heads?"
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Yeah, I'm thinking a lot about this as well. Have a lot of scattered notes about compression/decompression, narration, serialization, etc. Leaving some raw notes here, would love your ideas? reganmian.net/blog/2010/04/1
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My analogy was "Two amazingly brilliant AI systems, that can only communicate with each other using morse code"... The need to take complex knowledge structure and "serialize"/"deserialize" (like modem). Wonder if Zettleconversations can be one answer? /cc
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Also fascinated by all kinds of visual representations, maps, argument maps, concept maps, etc. It feels like they have a lot of potential, but I'm not sure if they're useful in transferring knowledge, as much as the process of making them. There is some interesting research...
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by Collide group at Duisburg to use concept maps for collaborative learning - each participant fills out a concept map, a system automatically diffs and uses info to prompt them in collaborating (this person knows more about A than you, ask him about it).
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This. The biggest challenge in teaching and learning is to fit the right pieces into the right nooks and crannies of each person's mind. And the gaps is most effective filled through conversations (consulting, coaching?) as the learner pulls the knowledge JIT
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saw this a while back
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This is a fascinating thread! As someone who shares ideas for a living I think a lot about how I could do it more efficiently.
I think of writing as “creating an experience” more than “creating an artifact”
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I really really like this conception, fwiw! I’m somewhat suspicious transfer can happen through skeletons alone — what lives in my summary may be left out of yours, because we learn what we are ready to learn.
Yes and no and both :) On the one hand, I feel like so much is lost to the world because people wait until it's fully formed. I get immense value from traversing 's notes, and am happy I don't have to see the tiny condensed essay that will eventually result.
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I'm also working my way through The body keeps the score... Lot's of very interesting ideas, but intermingled with so many anecdotes and stories that it's hard to keep straight. I've started organizing my Kindle notes here, but it's a slog. It's very emotional and tough stuff...
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