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Interesting! I always thought the table metaphor really appealed to a "pencil and paper" mentality, which would be all about computing "more and more pieces of
by ezyang 16y ago
Interesting! I always thought the table metaphor really appealed to a "pencil and paper" mentality, which would be all about computing "more and more pieces of the table" until it was full.
- argv_empty 16y agoIt does. The problem is that it doesn't really explain why what you're filling in on the table is correct. Learning algorithms by rote was possible, but devising them for problems I hadn't seen before was not. Now, I don't need to memorize -- reconstruction is easier.