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#102 Sendhil Mullainathan: The Chaos Inside Us

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Is There a Difference Between Direct Match and Associative Match?

The next stage is the evaluation of this thing in trying to understandye, i think that's a really interesting way to look at it. I was almost coming back to sort of like your computer science a p h d that you defer. You can still do it, by the way, you can. But i was thinking about memory and how we have this direct memory versus associative memory. And even though it's not a perfect alignment, it's that associative match that we really want to hone in on,. Not the direct match because direct match means you need to identify the problem the exact specific way that you've seen it before. It's also what's super gratifying about a...

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