It seems less obvious to me that human grokking looks like ‘stare at the same data points a bunch of times until things click’
Personally, I don’t think it’s that different. At least for language. When I read some unrecognizable word in a foreign language, my mind tries first to retrieve other times I have seen this word but haven’t understood. Suppose I can remember 3 of these instances. Now I have 3 + 1 of these examples in my mind and, extracting the similar context they share, I can finally deduct the meaning.
Personally, I don’t think it’s that different. At least for language. When I read some unrecognizable word in a foreign language, my mind tries first to retrieve other times I have seen this word but haven’t understood. Suppose I can remember 3 of these instances. Now I have 3 + 1 of these examples in my mind and, extracting the similar context they share, I can finally deduct the meaning.