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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 15 Dec 2014

    How You Know: http://paulgraham.com/know.html 

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      1. John Carmack‏Verified account @ID_AA_Carmack 15 Dec 2014
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        @paulg I sometimes feel vaguely guilty about "grazing" on lots of information, rather than studying with intensity,but I still grow from it.

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      2. Russell Roberts‏ @EconTalker 15 Dec 2014
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        .@paulg Deep and so true. Here are my two favorite poems on forgetting: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/26905 … http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176996 

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      1. Paul McKellar‏Verified account @pm 15 Dec 2014
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        @paulg so happy to read all these essays.

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      1. grejdi /'grey-dee'/‏ @grejdi 15 Dec 2014
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        @paulg Same with studying mathematics. You start forgetting tools and specifics, but the way you reason and solve a problem persists.

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      1. nyan cat game‏ @nyan_cat_game 15 Dec 2014
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        @paulg amazing

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      1. Nikos Anagnostou‏ @nikan 15 Dec 2014
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        @paulg compiling is a great metaphor. There is an older one, equally eloquent: distilling. Knowledge in the quintessence distilled from data

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      1. David H. Clark‏ @davidhclark 15 Dec 2014
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        Sooo true. "Your mind is like a compiled program you've lost the source of." “@paulg: How You Know: http://paulgraham.com/know.html ”

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      1. Sebastian‏ @skglas 15 Dec 2014
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        @paulg seems to relate to the epistemology of f. a. Hayek, forgetting details made him a 'puzzler' as he put

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      1. David McDougall‏ @dmcdougall 15 Dec 2014
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        "Your mind is like a compiled program you've lost the source of. It works, but you don't know why." - @paulg http://paulgraham.com/know.html 

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      2. Aarjav Trivedi‏ @aarjav 15 Dec 2014
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        @paulg Why do we retain the source code of what we learn from experiences so much better than the source code of what we learn from books?

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      3. Aarjav Trivedi‏ @aarjav 15 Dec 2014
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        @paulg ...when we can replay experiences, especially other people's experiences, will they be more effective learning tools than books?

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      2. Ivan Kirigin‏ @ikirigin 15 Dec 2014
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg I've thought about this in why I value twitter. Each tweet is small, many are vapid, but I get difficult to pinpoint aggregate value

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      3. Ivan Kirigin‏ @ikirigin 15 Dec 2014
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        @paulg and my paranoia is that the app has just tricked me into thinking this, but I actually haven't learned much.

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      1. Lavanya‏ @lavanyashukla 20 Jan 2015
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        @paulg Also fascinating how you can remember something word for word once you go back to it, but couldn't reproduce it otherwise.

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      1. Todd Chapman‏ @chakatodd 31 Dec 2014
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        @paulg Fiction I found relevant to How You Know. http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_of_fact_the_truth_of_feeling_by_ted_chiang …

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      1. Christopher Bradley‏ @ChrisBradley_1 22 Dec 2014
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        @paulg interesting that both remembering + forgetting are key to intelligence.W/ limited bandwidth only most transferable knowledge is king.

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      1. Calypsox‏ @claireliu24 20 Dec 2014
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        “@paulg: How You Know: http://paulgraham.com/know.html ” memory is getting less important

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      1. James Mustich‏ @jamesmustich 18 Dec 2014
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        @paulg As Joseph Joubert eloquently put it, "All that I've learned, I've forgotten; that which I still know, I've guessed."

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      1. Piero Settepani‏ @PieroSettepani 16 Dec 2014
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        @paulg Thanks for following me if you want to know the answer for any question read my book Evolution orders@Xlibris.com.au

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