i can remember places i've been to (or only seen in photos) decades ago, and navigate them successfully. i can describe images i saw once when i was a kid. but i have literally no 'verbal memory', i can't remember movie lines, or lyrics to any of my favorite songs, and when it comes to programming, and terminal commands? well. i've been using linux distros for almost 20 years and still, daily, look up things like "linux how to find files with extension". it is NOT a good operating system for me
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@jk further vindication for Eagle Mode
i've found that other people seem to be able to just encode structured data in their brain, verbatim, and reproduce it. i can only produce a paraphrased version, with the same meaning and stylistic features, a plausible guess. as a kid, i used to get in trouble for 'improvising' when playing piano, but the only way i can learn is an improvisation that converges toward the real thing. if the syntax has a strict "wrong until perfect" step function (not differentiable?) i can't learn at all