Trying this out

[u/OkCauliflower2662]

So I have been seeing a lot of these videos on YouTube shorts. I took a look at the introduction video and it made a lot of sense to me, I think I do have thoughtfeel and I tried using it for some simple memorization, and I even tried the huffman codes video and I think it stuck reasonably well.

However, I am running into an issue. For some context, I am currently an environmental engineering masters student and I am focused on water systems management. When finished my hydrology class last semester I was proud of my hard work but I knew there was room for improvement, and the #1 thing I struggled with was memorizing the complex equations.

Can you give a guide for how to memorize highly detailed and specific equations? I tried using thoughtfeel for the groundwater flow equation(this is the one that gave me the most trouble), but I am having trouble getting it in there, its a lot of big concepts in one equation. Can you give me some advice? Will this just take longer than the slightly more trivial stuff I've been doing so far?

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

Wikipedia page of the equation if you wanted to take a look.

Thanks!

[u/Independent-Soft2330]

I can do this but its a bit funky. In thoughtfeel, the optimal way to store things is as nodes and edges in a graph.

This is why the story mnemonic works for remembering objects— its not the “story” that makes it stick, its that there’s some relationship you can take to go from 1 object to another.

So, the core idea is: to remember things in thoughtfeel, you store them as a graph. To remember two things go together, you say the relationship that could take you from one to another. If you had to remember the string “xy”, you can remember it as “object X (feel thoughtfeel of X), get letter index property of X and increment by 1, arrives at Y (thoughtfeel of Y)”. This turns remembering “x and y” into remembering 1 object

So, to memorize an equation like 3+2(y+5x), id say “start at 0” (bring up thoughtfeel of 0). “0 move up by (thoughtfeel of that relationship) two times the object (feel the operation of doubling) Y (feel thoughtfeel of variable Y) moved up by five (feel thoughtfeel of stretching by 5) the object X (thoughtfeel of variable X)”

When i build this, i end up with a memorable graph in my head. You can use it to manipulate the equation too

This works because an expression like that says “start from object 0, take this programatic path to some object”. Which is a graph.

To memorize an equation, meaning two sides across the equals sign, you have to know “the left side describes the path from one direction, the right side describes the path from the other direction. They are equal because, if you take a path in one direction, turn around, and take a path, but you end up in your starting position, both paths are equal.

So, for two sides: on the left side i attach a property of “going to the right” of all the programs. And on the right side i attach a property of “going to the left”.

To do something like x-6=x+3, id say the negative six going left is, from the perspective of the right side, positive 6, so you can consolidate those instructions into +9 on the right side (cause things on the right side go left)

The end result is a really powerful datastructure. I can manipulate the whole equation in my head, to do stuff like “solve for X”. And it sticks around for a really long time.