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by emilga 6y ago
This 90min video by the Dobson himself is a great explanation of how to build one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snz7JJlSZvw
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by emilga 7y ago
> Caesar was said to prefer the company of fat men, with the implied causation that happy -> fat. From WikiQuote [0]: "It is not the well-fed long-haired man I fear, but the pale and the hungry looking." And from pg's d
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by emilga 7y ago
Here's a good documentary about Stuxnet as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGGxqjpka-U
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by emilga 7y ago
It's also amusing to see a mathematician be more convinced by the computer simulation than the proof.
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by emilga 7y ago
I've never tried the PAO system, due to the startup costs of pre-memorizing 100 person-action-objects. But a simpler alternative which requires less work up front is the Major System (sometimes called the Phonetic system) [0]. The way
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by emilga 7y ago
Robert Bjork [0] talks a lot about this, in particular in [1], and also in his 1h long lecture "How we learn vs how we think we learn" [2]. It's important to distinguish between "performance" (how well you're d
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by emilga 7y ago
> The problem with skipping memorization of concepts after having understood something is that two months later, you'll have forgotten those concepts. The key realization, for me, is that conceptual understanding, intuitions, and ke
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by emilga 7y ago
The ancient Romans and Greeks were known to use the Memory Palace technique, as other commenters here have mentioned. (It's mentioned by Cicero, in Ad Herrenium (of unknown authorship), and St. Augustine, among others.) This was contin
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by emilga 7y ago
Here’s a blind programmer using Visual Studio with a ridiculously fast TTS: https://youtu.be/94swlF55tVc
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by emilga 7y ago
It would be so cool if the Native Americans independently discovered the Method of Loci (or something similar)! If so, I wonder if they also developed the same rules of thumb as the Greeks/Romans, like: space your loci apart, always vi
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by emilga 7y ago
Thomas Bradwardine (1300-1349) recommends combining the two techniques. I.e. at each Loci you link together more than one item using the story mnemonic.
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by emilga 7y ago
> I think specifically I would second guess myself for the syntax of the cards I was creating - and if there was another better way to do it. This kind of perfectionism has also been bothering me. ("I need to write the card perfectl
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by emilga 7y ago
Geo-location is a fascinating topic. Here's a Twitter thread where BBC solved a murder in Cameroon: https://twitter.com/bbcafrica/status/1044186344153583616?lan... From a single video of the crime, they were
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by emilga 8y ago
> I agree with you that overly relying on flashcards will take away the intuition, which is critical in fields like mathematics. Can't you just write a card that specifically asks you to give the intuition behind some concept? E.g.
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by emilga 8y ago
More levels please! ;-)
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by emilga 8y ago
Thanks for digging it up! :)
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by emilga 8y ago
Do you remember roughly where you read that Feynman quote? (Or was it a video?) I'd be really interested to read it.
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by emilga 8y ago
Anki supports typing in the answer. (Here's the relevant section of the manual: https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#checking-your-answ... ) E.g. if your note field is called SpanishWord then putting {{type:S
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by emilga 8y ago
Schopenhauer's essay on reading is brilliant and worth reading in its entirety [0] > When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. It is the same as the pupil, in learning to write, following with
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by emilga 8y ago
Just a suggestion: If you download Kindle Mate (kmate.me), you can import your Kindle highlights to your PC and export them as a text file. Then you could make a script that parses this file line by line and saves it as a csv-file. Then use
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by emilga 8y ago
As I recently learned, a dark pattern is a term used to describe deliberately misleading or manipulative user interfaces. This twitter-account includes many screenshots for illustration: https://twitter.com/darkpatterns
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by emilga 8y ago
Yes, it will. Here's a good news-article [0] giving context to the report. Quote: > Director of Digital Services in the Consumer Council, Finn Myrstad, says they will now ask the Norwegian Data Inspectorate [i.e. Datatilsynet] to as
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by emilga 8y ago
"As a great Swiss historian once pointed out in another connection, history is the one subject where you cannot begin at the beginning." - J. M. Roberts
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by emilga 8y ago
> “Why should the laws of nature care about what I find beautiful?” This article is a nice counterpoint to Paul Dirac's speech in favour of mathematical beauty in physical theories. [0] Some quotes from Dirac: > What makes the th
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by emilga 8y ago
> why there is a variety of e.g. beetle species inhabiting a given ecological niche, instead of a single super-optimized beetle species. Are there really two or more beetle species occupying the same ecological niche, though? It would vi
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by emilga 8y ago
> Is there anything about bacteriophages--including their manufacture and use--that actually makes them more "communist"? I guess the bacteriophage RNA "seizes" the host cell's means of production (ribosomes). ;)
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by emilga 8y ago
Kurzgesagt goes through bacterophages in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3tsmFsrOg I think this is the case mentioned by Kurzgesagt in the video, although he doesn't use names, so I can't be sure. Su
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by emilga 8y ago
At Phaenomenta in Flensburg there's an interesting exhibit that breaks the link between tactile sensation and visual perception: An oval is placed flat on a table, so that you can touch it and feel it's shape. Above it, and parall
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by emilga 8y ago
Very cool lecture! It would be interesting to hear him speak about the pros and cons of different body plans. Are three or six legged robots useful, compared to four legged ones? What about multi-armed humanoid robots?
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by emilga 9y ago
Here's a Turkish whistled language in action: https://youtu.be/bQf38Ybo1IY?t=1m40s

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