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"What I find instead, is that by just processing novel information, especially if I focus on analysing it, my brain internalizes insights and builds model of th
by Sammi 2y ago
"What I find instead, is that by just processing novel information, especially if I focus on analysing it, my brain internalizes insights and builds model of that type of thing"
Sorry, but this is memoization.
- guitheeengineer 2y agoI feel like every reply making a point against memorisation would benefit from having their definition of what is memorization, because every single one of those replies sound like they're still implicitly describing some sort of memorization as the better way
- maksimur 2y agoI feel like this is about the difference between rote/explicit memorization and organic/implicit/tacit memorization, for a lack of better words. I suspect the former could narrow/restrict your understanding because it may be constrained/limited by the vocabulary/definition itself.
- djeastm 2y agoI think perhaps there's a confusion of "memorization" with "rote memorization". The word "rote" connotes flashcards and dull drills, but memorization by itself, to me at least, is more like "a focused attempt at internalizing information", in whatever way that means to a person, as opposed to just ingesting it or letting it wash over you/osmosis. But that's just my interpretation of the terms. I don't know what the "official" meanings are.
- alan-hn 2y agoExactly, everyone here is just describing different forms of memorization
- XenophileJKO 2y agoIs it? If I don't remember any of the detail, but just the general "feel" of the concept.. is that memorization?
- jaggederest 2y agohttps://qbi.uq.edu.au/brain-basics/memory/types-memory https://qbi.uq.edu.au/brain-basics/memory/types-memory
- barrkel 2y agoWhat do you call it when you remember things so you can repeat them but you can't generalize? E.g. if you learn a poem or phrase in a foreign language, but can't reuse the words in different contexts? Or being able to recite a rule, but not automatically applying it? Is there a word for this? Similarly, we should have a word for knowing how to reuse something in a different context, but not recall its origin or its canonical portrayal. Being able to apply a rule, without being able to recite it. Do you think there's one word which means both of these things, which are opposites, as I've stated them?
- kiba 2y agoTransfer learning. Transferring skills from one context to another is surprisingly hard to do, but not impossible. AFAIK, contexts must be similar to each other for transfer to take place.
- Izkata 2y ago> What do you call it when you remember things so you can repeat them but you can't generalize? E.g. if you learn a poem or phrase in a foreign language, but can't reuse the words in different contexts? Or being able to recite a rule, but not automatically applying it? "Rote memorization"
- inciampati 2y agoModeling is not memorization. It's more generic and can't allow you to reproduce the memorized information, only describe its underlying structure.
- mensetmanusman 2y agoI think I would call it internalization instead of memorization. People memorize equations not knowing what the variables are, others internalize the concepts of what is trying to be calculated.
- Izkata 2y ago> > and builds model > memoization Was this intentional and no one caught on? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoization https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoization Or just a typo?
- Sammi 2y agoTypo. Funny typo given we're on hn.
- Llamamoe 2y agoIf I cannot recall the information or even that I've come across it unprompted, is it really? Because that's my norm, and I still retain insights from that, that are then applicable across topics.