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I understood the monad concept for a few months in university. After the exam was over, I soon stopped understanding it. The same thing happened with the concep
by cubefox 6mo ago
I understood the monad concept for a few months in university. After the exam was over, I soon stopped understanding it. The same thing happened with the concept of VC dimension. It's kind of interesting, because we usually don't think of "understanding" as something that comes with a time limit.
- alper 6mo agoIt happens all the time. For a brief period I understood musical notation and rhythm and then it was gone. Similarly I had a time in my life where I knew by feeling whether a French noun was le or la.
- cubefox 6mo agoThe sneaky thing here is that understanding, and knowledge in general, disappear silently. So you don't notice it when you unlearn and forget something. Only if a situation comes up where you need that understanding again do you notice that it is gone. Coming to understand something is conscious, losing that understanding is unconscious.