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What Are the Mental Models That You Use Most Often?
In math, for example, I've come up with this heuristic, which is that you want to understand things algebraically, verbally, visually, numerically, algorithmically. Okay. Let's take the concept of an eigenvalue, right? A x equals lambda x algebraically and definition verbally. These are the solutions of a characteristic equation. It's a way of representing like a linear transformations action on a vector. Now, if you can do all five of those and just like rattle it off, then you usuallylike understand a concept because you've seen it from a few different angles.
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