by Ela | Feb 18, 2012 | Patterns, Stories, Understanding
We learn from others. We have family and friends. We have teachers, mentors, supervisors, managers or bosses. We have colleagues, politicians, media people, musicians, and stars. We observe. We analyze. We model. We emulate. We compare to others. Without perhaps...
by Ela | Sep 30, 2011 | Learning, Pattern recognition, Understanding
Imagine your brain. Hopefully, you saw a picture of a human brain at some point in life so you can imagine it now ;). A rough idea is enough. The human brain The cerebrum with its gray matter is the largest part of your brain. It lies around most other structures of...
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...
