On the benefits of over-long books.pic.twitter.com/r49KDsyWst
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Incidentally, & anecdotally, until pretty recently I thought of understanding and memorizing as rather more separate. After I started experimenting with memory systems, I was shocked by how much faster I started to understand things.
My eventual conclusion was that I had earlier greatly underestimated the role of memory in understanding. (This is much less true in areas I’m already an expert in; the effect is strongest for areas a little apart from things I know well.)
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I’ve radically changed my beliefs in this area over the past two years.
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Can you recommend one that would convince me? I'm sceptical but I could try it on a thing I've been trying to understand that's a little apart from things I'm expert in.
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Probably not. Learning the memory system was, itself, not at all trivial. Though it’s now repaid the effort 10-fold. But some basic thoughts here:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/957763229454774272 …
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