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prerat's avatar

These blog posts have been rly fun to read, like twitter (compared to a lot of blogs which recently are feeling like work to read).

Branching paths are actually one of my fav topics specifically, a bunch of math im interested in is directly from this (graph theory, decision theory, etc). If future visa wants to revisit that'd be sick (but up to him when the time comes of course)

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Ulkar Aghayeva's avatar

i read the essay in one breath, and i loved how it is composed/architected even though you didn't know how the ideas will connect at the outset!

and indeed forgetting aids remembering and learning, this is a subject of a Brain Inspired podcast episode with the neuroscientist Tomás Ryan https://braininspired.co/podcast/127/ . and here is a review he co-wrote about the phenomenon https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35027710/

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