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by brennanpeterson
784 days ago
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True! I went a little far in the name of 'eli5'. I think it roughly holds that you gain about a factor of 1.5 in routing density by removing the power distribution, so you can relax some critical patterning. But I havent looked closely in a long time. |
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Precision is important. You'll notice every comment I made was as simple as I can make it, but /technically correct/. I did not oversimplify to where I changed facts.
* It's okay if five-year-olds don't fully understand something. That builds exposure, and leaves a placeholder for future information and curiosity.
* On the other hand, if you build out an array of misconceptions, those become very expensive to address later.
To a large extent, the younger the child, the more comfortable they will be with being told things they don't understand. A baby doesn't care if you're reading them a book on trucks or a book on homeomorphic transformations; they're picking out the phonemes. A toddler will trust you as an adult, and won't understand 90% of the stuff they hear anyways. A five-year-old, you can still say a lot they won't understand and they'll be not just okay but happy. By maybe seven, lack-of-understanding will become frustrating, and in most cases, by eleven, it's gone.
I could write a long essay on this stuff, and why it's so important to maintain that ability to be confused and half-understand, but I very intentionally leave placeholders when working with five-year-olds.