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Isn't this really good for route learning? Which outside of a limited few situations (vocab, exams) is the most useless type of learning there is?
by elai 19y ago
Isn't this really good for route learning? Which outside of a limited few situations (vocab, exams) is the most useless type of learning there is?
- SwellJoe 19y agoGiven that the vocabulary (by a loose definition of "vocabulary") of any new skill is a significant portion of the barrier to becoming proficient, I would say that making that aspect a solved problem would be a miraculous improvement in learning efficiency. For example, learning a new programming language (once you know how to program in general) is at least 50% vocabulary. It's learning the keywords and syntax, library functions, etc. Likewise for most kinds of skills. Sailing is largely knowing the names, the knots, and the laws (plus practice). Driving is laws, and a few basic automotive concepts. Law is lots and lots of cases. Medicine is lots and lots of anatomy. All of these things are memorization, and that memorization is a barrier to expertise. Memorization is clearly not the most useless type of learning. It's core to almost every skill.