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Lumifer comments on Improving Enjoyment and Retention Reading Technical Literature - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 09 August 2013 03:21:48PM 0 points [-]

Overlearning is about practicing skills, not memorizing facts.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 11 August 2013 08:29:23PM 0 points [-]

Memorizing facts, specifically, using domain knowledge to compress the facts, thus making them easier to memorize, is a way to practice skills.

Comment author: Lumifer 12 August 2013 05:39:01PM 0 points [-]

Um, no. We may be using words differently, but for me memorizing facts and practicing skills are not the same thing at all.