If you learned it, then forgot it - well then you never really learned it
There's a lot of stuff I used to know well, but through lack of use, I've forgotten.
Like the citric acid cycle. Used to be able to diagram every molecule, but then the kid came and I lost the IQ points.
I don't consider that "then I never learned it."
Like the citric acid cycle. Used to be able to diagram every molecule, but then the kid came and I lost the IQ points.
I don't consider that "then I never learned it."
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
There's loads of mathematical formula & processes I used to have memorized that I'd have to look up nowadays. I don't exactly remember how to integrate cosine squared over tangent cubed, but I bet I could once I looked up the appropriate substitutions.
So what's learning? It is straight up memorization of arbitrary facts or is it familiarity with the patterns in the facts & their correct usage?
Edited By Malcolm on 1279745374
So what's learning? It is straight up memorization of arbitrary facts or is it familiarity with the patterns in the facts & their correct usage?
Edited By Malcolm on 1279745374
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
I've always had a very very poor memory. I'm not the guy from Memento, but I'm as close as you can get without having actual brain damage. I can never remember how to do things or what things are or anything. But I can remember the basic understandings behind how things work.
I've always been that way. Because of it I've gotten very good at relearning things at breakneck speed. For example when I was a briefly a physics major I rederived the formulas of force and motion every time I needed one on a test. I think I've reinvented most of calculus from scratch at least twice by now. Every time I write a program I may have to look up most of the syntax yet again, but the algorithms are always perfect and built fast and tight.
I also learn new things at super speed, too. But I have to relearn them again the next time I need them.
I think it's from all the pot I smoked when I was six.
EDIT: I missed the "well then you never really learned it" part. Hmmm ... I guess I'll vote FALSE, then, but I wouldn't argue too strongly against TRUE if you'll also give me "but you can always learn it again"
Edited By TPRJones on 1279761340
I've always been that way. Because of it I've gotten very good at relearning things at breakneck speed. For example when I was a briefly a physics major I rederived the formulas of force and motion every time I needed one on a test. I think I've reinvented most of calculus from scratch at least twice by now. Every time I write a program I may have to look up most of the syntax yet again, but the algorithms are always perfect and built fast and tight.
I also learn new things at super speed, too. But I have to relearn them again the next time I need them.
I think it's from all the pot I smoked when I was six.
EDIT: I missed the "well then you never really learned it" part. Hmmm ... I guess I'll vote FALSE, then, but I wouldn't argue too strongly against TRUE if you'll also give me "but you can always learn it again"
Edited By TPRJones on 1279761340
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