Jeyapaul Caleb

Tag: learning

  • Why are we curious? And how can we be more curious?

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    Jeyapaul Caleb

    Herbert A Simon, the noted Economist, gave a talk at Carnegie Mellon University in 1992 which was titled “The Cat that Curiosity Couldn’t Kill.” It is a rather interesting (and slightly humorous) read into how and why scientists study things. He said that curiosity is not just the beginning of all science, it is also…

  • To learn better you must teach: Importance of Articulation in learning

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    Jeyapaul Caleb

    One of the popular methods of learning a new subject is what is known as the Feynman Technique. Numerous books and blogs talk about the method. It is said that Richard Feynman, The Nobel Prize winning Physicist only considered to have learned something if he could give an introductory lecture on it.(P85, How to Take…

  • The Skills of Abstraction and Specification

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    Jeyapaul Caleb

    Each one of us has been taught to brush our teeth at a very young age. Now we might have been taught to do so using a green brush or a blue brush (or a brush of some other colour). Today if we were given a brush of a different colour that doesn’t mean we…

  • Illusions and survivorship bias

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    Jeyapaul Caleb

    Most of us have seen optical illusions. Often these are fun exercises. But why do we keep falling for such illusions? It is because our minds are seeing and interpreting the vision at the same time. The brain is using past experience to fill in the gaps and find reference points for what we’re seeing.…