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Comment by rishabhaiover

11 hours ago

This book equipped me with the right intuition and tools to visualize machine learning. I wish I was smart enough to hold it all together.

>I wish I was smart enough to hold it all together.

I used to have a wife, but they took her in the divorce!

The human mind isn't very good at correlating its contents[0]. You can "know" something for years without realizing its implications.

The human mind traverses its knowledge like a man with a small flashlight in total darkness. Our beam of attention is small and narrow, so you need to put the right things in it, or the magic doesn't happen.

This has important implications for learning. I don't know what they are though.

Probably something like, "you can know something without knowing what it means." You haven't connected it to the things it's supposed to be connected to yet. I don't know how to fix that though. (Something involving the Feynman technique, maybe?)

[0] H.P. Lovecraft quote - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/193944-the-most-merciful-th...