there's an upper limit to how much learning you can do in a sleep cycle
By "learning" do you actually mean "memorization"?
By learning, I actually mean
The act of acquiring new, or modifying and reinforcing, existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information
My experience is in math (and the prof in question taught math), which is fairly light on the memorization. Sure, you memorize definitions, but most of the effort is in internalizing new ways of thinking about things. Like, the derivation of the quadratic formula doesn't contain any new information to memorize, and I definitely didn't memorize the ste...
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