Language
This morning I had a long chat with Gemini about language learning for adults. The similarity with my findings in chess learning is striking: Understanding . 95% of the learning should be based on understanding Shadowing . Only lately I learned to appreciate the learning based on a close observation of titled commentators who are playing or watching other players play. Frequency of occurrence. A long term pet subject of me. Focus on what happens in each and every game. Preferably every few moves. Spaced repetition. A necessary hack of the forgetting brain. Interest in certain aspects of the game. Only lately I am starting to develop a specific interest in the Vukovic gap of the game. Hence I put endgames on the backburner. Prof. Elan Barenholz has an interesting hypothesis about how certain parts of our brain have a lot in common with LLM's (Large Language Models). As a child, our mind is filled with all kinds of knowledge. That starts before we can even speak. That is why west...