method and madness by [[Alan Jacobs]]

via In which I describe my writing “methods." by [[Alan Jacobs]]

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@ayjay Thanks for sharing this. My method is often very much like yours. Lots of internal distillation, slowly over time. I remember hearing a story that Mozart wrote music "like a cow pees" (in one giant and immediate flood and then done). I feel like large works of writing, composing, etc. springing, as if fully formed from the head of Zeus is more common than is acknowledged. Cory Doctorow hints at a similar sort of method in his own work in The Memex Method. I'm also reminded of bits of what neuroscientist Barbara Oakley calls "diffuse thinking" or a more internalized version of Michael Ondaatje's "thinkering" described in The English Patient.

By abstracting and concatenating portions of material, one can more efficiently learn material that would otherwise take more time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Silliman

Instead of dumping the humidity outdoors, why not have an option to condense it to a water holding tank, thus offsetting the need to purchase water? This sounds like it might even be able to distill water, which would further save money for those who need distilled water for apnea devices and other uses.

Niklas Luhmann analogized his zettelkasten to a septic tank. You put in a lot of material, a lot of seemingly waste, and it allows a process of settling and filtering to allow the waste to be separated and distill into something useful.

一篇知识蒸馏（Distillation）的新应用。Distillation 本身的应用目标是为了“模型压缩”从而知识转化实现小模型上的快速训练，而此文是对“数据压缩”以实现不错的蒸馏效果。