Piebepo@nord.pub to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoMost people confuse the amount of knowledge they have with actual understandingmessage-squaremessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up1112arrow-down13
arrow-up1109arrow-down1message-squareMost people confuse the amount of knowledge they have with actual understandingPiebepo@nord.pub to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square20linkfedilink
minus-squareAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·2 months agoWhen you understand something, you can deduce related information without having memorized it—so understanding increases your total capacity for knowledge. It’s like a knowledge compression algorithm.
minus-squareHubertManne@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agothis. I am horrible at memorizing so I got through trig by deriving everything from the base sine/cosine rules.
minus-squaremorto@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoProblem is that my brain uses lossy compression instead of lossless
minus-squareAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThat’s what gives us “educated guesses”.
When you understand something, you can deduce related information without having memorized it—so understanding increases your total capacity for knowledge. It’s like a knowledge compression algorithm.
this. I am horrible at memorizing so I got through trig by deriving everything from the base sine/cosine rules.
Problem is that my brain uses lossy compression instead of lossless
That’s what gives us “educated guesses”.