Yiya Wang
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Understanding

Synapi

How do humans understand?

Building
§ 01 — Why it matters

Most of what we call learning is recognition, not understanding. We can recite a concept without being able to use it, transfer it, or notice when it breaks. Understanding is the layer underneath performance — and it's mostly invisible, even to ourselves. If we can't see it, we can't grow it.

§ 02 — Current expression

Synapi · Building

Synapi is the current attempt. A tool that traces how a person actually holds an idea — the structure, the gaps, the connections they haven't made yet. Less a quiz, more a mirror.

§ 03 — Timeline
  • 2024Question surfaces. First sketches.
  • 2025Synapi begins. Prototypes with small cohorts.
  • 2026Building toward a usable v1.
§ 04 — Notes
  • Ongoing

    The hardest part isn't measurement. It's defining what 'understood' even means without collapsing it into the testable.

§ 05 — Related writing

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