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  • Ismael Flores Vargashas quotedlast month
    the centaur lesson remains: the more a task shifts to an open world of big-picture strategy, the more humans have to add.
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    It took Treffert decades to realize he had been wrong, and that
    savants have more in common with prodigies like the Polgar sisters than he thought. They do not merely regurgitate. Their brilliance, just like the Polgar brilliance, relies on repetitive structures, which is precisely what made the Polgars’ skill so easy to automate.
  • Ismael Flores Vargashas quotedlast month
    We all rely on chunking every day in skills in which we are expert.
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    Studying an enormous number of repetitive patterns is so important in chess that early specialization in technical practice is critical.
  • Ismael Flores Vargashas quotedlast month
    The reason that elite athletes seem to have superhuman
    reflexes is that they recognize patterns of ball or body movements that tell them what’s coming before it happens.
  • Ismael Flores Vargashas quotedlast month
    Chunking helps explain instances of apparently miraculous, domain-specific memory,
  • Ismael Flores Vargashas quotedlast month
    Moravec’s paradox: machines and humans frequently have opposite strengths and weaknesses.
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    “Anything we can do, and we know how to do it, machines will do it better,” he said at a recent lecture. “If we can codify it, and pass it to computers, they will do it better.”
  • Ismael Flores Vargashas quotedlast month
    In the most devilishly wicked learning environments, experience will reinforce the exact wrong lessons.
  • Ismael Flores Vargashas quotedlast month
    Kahneman was focused on the flip side of
    kind learning environments; Hogarth called them “wicked.”

    In wicked domains, the rules of the game are often unclear or incomplete, there may or may not be repetitive patterns and they may not be obvious, and feedback is often delayed, inaccurate, or both.
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