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> Also the more knowledge you have the more difficult it becomes to retrieve that knowledge quickly. I've never heard this about the human brain before. I'm n
by chollida1 16y ago
> Also the more knowledge you have the more difficult it becomes to retrieve that knowledge quickly.
I've never heard this about the human brain before.
I'm not saying you're wrong, because I don't know, but statements of fact like this deserve a good reference.
Do you have anything to back up this assertion of fact?
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- tgflynn 16y agoActually I intended that statement more as an hypothesis/conjecture than as a statement of fact. It does agree with my own introspective observations. If I have seen many different approaches to solving a certain class of problems and I'm presented with a problem which shares features of that class I'm going to have to spend time trying to figure out which of those approaches is most appropriate to the problem and circumstances. If I've only ever seen one approach to that type of problem then the initial phase of the solution space search is simplified and I can immediately begin to try to adapt that one approach to the particular problem. An example might be solving a max flow problem. There are graph based and linear programming based approaches to that problem. If you're only aware of the graph based approaches then you won't lose time trying to figure out which of the two approaches is most appropriate for the problem you're facing. Of course if you're confronted with hard real world problems then having more knowledge increases the likelihood that you will be able to find a solution. That may not apply however to artificial interview questions in a time constrained context.