This 90min video by the Dobson himself is a great explanation of how to build one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snz7JJlSZvw
> 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…
Here's a good documentary about Stuxnet as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGGxqjpka-U
It's also amusing to see a mathematician be more convinced by the computer simulation than the proof.
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…
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 doing…
> 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,…
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.)…
Here’s a blind programmer using Visual Studio with a ridiculously fast TTS: https://youtu.be/94swlF55tVc
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…
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.
> 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…
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 able to…
> 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…
More levels please! ;-)
Thanks for digging it up! :)
Do you remember roughly where you read that Feynman quote? (Or was it a video?) I'd be really interested to read it.
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…
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,…
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…
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
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.…
"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
> “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…
> 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,…
This 90min video by the Dobson himself is a great explanation of how to build one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snz7JJlSZvw
> 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…
Here's a good documentary about Stuxnet as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGGxqjpka-U
It's also amusing to see a mathematician be more convinced by the computer simulation than the proof.
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…
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 doing…
> 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,…
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.)…
Here’s a blind programmer using Visual Studio with a ridiculously fast TTS: https://youtu.be/94swlF55tVc
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…
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.
> 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…
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 able to…
> 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…
More levels please! ;-)
Thanks for digging it up! :)
Do you remember roughly where you read that Feynman quote? (Or was it a video?) I'd be really interested to read it.
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…
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,…
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…
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
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.…
"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
> “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…
> 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,…