https://seunghoonchoi.com/tags/metacognition/Recent content in Metacognition on Seunghoon ChoiHugoen-USSun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://seunghoonchoi.com/column/learning-magic-numbers/Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://seunghoonchoi.com/column/learning-magic-numbers/<p><img src="https://seunghoonchoi.com/images/col-learning-magic-numbers.jpg" alt="A person standing at a city intersection at dusk, looking at three roads"></p> <p class="inline-image-caption">A sense of a new field comes not just from the quantity of examples, but from comparing the differences between different examples.</p> <p>When people first learn a new field, they often ask, &ldquo;How many examples do I need before I get a feel for it?&rdquo; It seems like seeing more should solve it, but that is not how it works. You can look at a hundred examples of the same kind and your thoughts can still stay unorganized.</p>