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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kUQWuK1L4w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kUQWuK1L4w APL inventor says that he was developing not a programming language, bu
by thesz 9mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kUQWuK1L4w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kUQWuK1L4w
APL inventor says that he was developing not a programming language, but notation to express as much problems as one can. He found that expressing more and more problems with the notation first made notation grow, then notation size started to shrink.
To develop conceptual knowledge (when one's "notation" starts to shrink) one has to have some good memory (re-expressing more and more problems).
- tovej 9mo agoThe point is that this particular type of exceptional memory has nothing to do with conceptual knowledge, it's all about experiences. This particular condition also makes you focus on your own past to an excessive amount, which would distract you from learning new technologies. You can't model systems in your mind using past experiences, at least not reliably and repeatedly.
- thesz 9mo agoYou can model systems in your mind using past experience with different systems, reliably and repetetively.
- tovej 9mo agoNo you can't. Your lived experience is not a systematic model of anything, what this type of memory gives you is a vivid set of anecdotes describing personally important events.