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I'm not sure we really know how much of learning is memorization. As we memorize more stuff, we find patterns to compress it and memorize more efficiently.

• raincole 10mo ago
  Sounds awfully like machine learning, doesn't it?
  • mjburgess 10mo ago
    No, because ML is compression via interpolation and does not imply decompression.
  • throwaway31131 10mo ago
    That’s an interesting idea. But the magic is in the “find patterns” stuff as memorization is just data storage. If you think of the machine learning algorithms as assigning items a point in a space, then it does uncover neighbors, sometimes ones we might not expect, and that’s interesting for sure. But I’m not sure it’s analogous to what people do when they uncover patterns. Definitely interesting to ponder though.
  • nairboon 10mo ago
    That really depends on the particular algorithm.