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		<title>Issa at 20:27, 24 October 2021</title>
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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l3&quot; &gt;Line 3:&lt;/td&gt;
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		<title>Issa at 02:32, 28 March 2021</title>
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		<title>Issa at 19:06, 27 February 2021</title>
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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l1&quot; &gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The [https://learning.subwiki.org/wiki/Feynman_technique Feynman technique] is great when you really want to internalize something. But the technique has a problem when all existing explanations suck. In that case you can try to explain it yourself, but when you get stuck, there is nowhere to turn to.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The [https://learning.subwiki.org/wiki/Feynman_technique Feynman technique] is great when you really want to internalize something. But the technique has a problem when all existing explanations suck. In that case you can try to explain it yourself, but when you get stuck, there is nowhere to turn to.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Even explanations of the technique use these bad explanations e.g. this site that explains the feynman technique using the pythagorean theorem as the example sucks: https://collegeinfogeek.com/feynman-technique/ -- this is hardly an explanation of the theorem, and they only show a proof at the very end and it&amp;#039;s a rearrangement proof that doesn&amp;#039;t give any insight.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;quot;The [https://learning.subwiki.org/wiki/Feynman_technique Feynman technique] is great when you really want to internalize something. But the technique has a problem when all ex...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;The [https://learning.subwiki.org/wiki/Feynman_technique Feynman technique] is great when you really want to internalize something. But the technique has a problem when all existing explanations suck. In that case you can try to explain it yourself, but when you get stuck, there is nowhere to turn to.&lt;br /&gt;
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