Plasmon comments on Grad Student Advice Repository - Less Wrong
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This is good advice. Strive for real understanding rather than rote memorisation.
(is this too obvious to be worth mentioning? Probably. Unfortunately I have seen several doctoral students fail and in hindsight it appears to me that this was part of the cause of that failure.)
I saw it too. It wasn't pretty.