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qseratoday at 3:55 AM1 replyview on HN

>understanding is a form of lossy compression..

No. Teaching is compression. Understanding and application is decompression.


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Dylan16807today at 4:08 AM

I would roughly say that understanding is compression and application is decompression.

You don't memorize the specific details, you memorize the flow of systems. But you get back to the details to put things into practice.

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