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At some point in my CS career i distinctly remember a "flip" i had in how i thought. The revelation was the fact that complexity and more generally information
by stevemk14ebr 9y ago
At some point in my CS career i distinctly remember a "flip" i had in how i thought. The revelation was the fact that complexity and more generally information has an infinite number of ways of being represented. Somehow by stating that explicitly i was able to tackle new problems by first asking myself "is there a better model for this that expresses the same information and obeys similar constraints as what i am modeling". I started taking my Calculus notes in "code-like" ways, for example, using while loops and if's, adding arrows and other weird non-math syntax. To me they were more efficient ways of learning and remembering the information
New ways of modeling the same information always excite me. This is fantastic work.
- meuk 9y agoThat's funny. It sounds like you exploit the same mechanism that causes trained chess players to remember chess positions more accurately than novices (I think it might be similar to the 'memory palace' technique to remember things).