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It seems like all learning somehow builds off of existing knowledge. When you are learning something new and don't understand it yet, you have this abstract concept floating around in your brain but it's not connected to any existing scaffolding.

I wonder if a concrete example is something that tries to locate existing scaffolding in your brain so that the concept can latch on a point. The "aha" moment.

The more examples, the more points where the idea can hook into existing scaffolding and the abstraction or concept becomes stronger.

We need high quality training data for our neural nets!

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