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Now, it's all under the notebook umbrella. Seems to be appropriate as it is just my notes after all. I also updated some notes from there. I didn't keep track of what it is this time. Something about more learning notes extracted from my "Learning how to learn" course notes and then some. Lack of time and hurriness just makes it difficult to track but it should be under version control already.
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Tunnel vision
- being invested in an idea that it blocks other ideas; this makes it harder to solve new problems where they expect to work similarly from their experience; it is a net negative if we force our way with the familiar solution while not understanding the new type of problem
- We are more associative than structured; we tend to create connections between different things including new things;
- we may also have to roam:Learn how to forget; in a world of quick and constant changes, learning new rules and topics takes up mental resources; we have to assign some garbage day at some point; unfortunately, we cannot easily do that from our experience as creates dogmatic mindset, that is, to survive by sticking to what we know
- it is present on most experts with their experience on the field; but this is also a potential problem for students in training where certain principles are taught then encountering a new idea overall
- This is the reason why most of the discoveries are made either by young people or those who haven't formally trained for the original field.
- to combat against this, we do Switching between different topics makes new perspective
- by the same principle, we could also let our attention switch at times; Involuntary attention switch is good for preventing tunnel vision
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examples:
- studying about different software engineering principles such as "Don't repeat yourself", modularity, and clean code; fully applying those principles even when it is not appropriate — e.g., modularizing files even if it consists of one line, creating a dedicated function if encountered two events even if insignificant
- being entrenched in an idea that they overlooked simpler solutions by veterans; in academia, this situation is often manifested as a supposed school assignments solved by a student like how a long-standing quantum computing problem was solved by a student with simple modifications to the existing solution; in an unlikely manner, this is also present in speedrunning where tricks and techniques are often discovered by accident by a newcomer trying out things the veterans didn't think to do
- sometimes, this is when we go against the idea of Advice shouldn't be taken literally