by Ela | Jun 27, 2011 | Learning, Understanding
Let’s say you are making progress in spurts. You live comfortably from one day to another until you encounter a certain idea. Not an idea. A strong idea. Perhaps you read a book. Or you listen to the news. Perhaps you overhear a conversation in a bus. Or your...
by Ela | Jun 21, 2011 | Consciousness, Learning, Patterns, Understanding
How do you recognize a conscious being? Imagine a completely unknown creature is approaching you. A strange creature, nothing you have seen in your life so far. Your mind is puzzled. Your heart is beating fast. You do not know what to think. You are not sure what you...
by Ela | Jun 13, 2011 | Learning, Pattern recognition
Despite the elegance and necessity of generalization, there is however a danger to its use. It is the case when we generalize from examples which are unrepresentative for the given concept. If this happens, they are often too few in number. When I say...
by Ela | Jun 7, 2011 | Learning, Understanding
In the previous post I discussed some aspects of learning a concept from examples. We will now connect it to…. Generalization Generalization is the ability to learn a concept or a class from a set of examples. In short, generalization is our way of capturing...
by Ela | Jun 1, 2011 | Get Unstuck, How-to, Learning, Pattern recognition, Patterns
Let’s look at some basic questions, which are nevertheless insightful: How enthusiastic are you about learning? How flexible are you? How do you keep up with the fast pace of our changing world? Whatever your answers to the questions above I hope you recognize...
