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Cognitive load theory was proposed by Australian psychologist John Sweller in 1988, noting that human working memory can only process approximately 7 independent chunks of information at any one time.
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An Efficient Learning Guide for Data Science: Study Partnerships and Hands-On ML in Practice
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