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There's knowledge and then there's understanding.

Understanding is far more useful, but (I think) less valued.

Knowledge can be gamed, you can know things that simply aren't true.

Understanding can be used not only to extract new knowlegde from a corpus of data, but also as a means to validate things presented as fact.



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