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		nightski on Aug 15, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014) If you consider the brain like a muscle, then "leaving mental effort for elsewhere" doesn't really make sense. If anything, it's making it more resilient for future work.

ryeguy_24 on Aug 15, 2018 [–]

It doesn't mean you stop learning with Markov Chains...it means you move on to the next more difficult topic.

ttoinou on Aug 16, 2018 | [–]

Or you wait for the awesome teacher/youtuber to make the next topic easy to understand and grasp withing 20 minuts instead of going on on your own

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