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		melling on June 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pen and paper exercises in machine learning (2021) They can work on amazing projects but they “struggled with basic facts” Sort of makes one wonder how important those “basic facts” really are.

feet on June 29, 2022 [–]

Yea because people never forget important things? Really?

That's not how memory works, in fact the more we recall something the more we start misremembering associated details

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