How To Keep Track Of What You’ve Learnt – Freestyle Mind Most people forget what they’ve just learnt within 12 and 24 hours. If you are reading this post now, chances are that tomorrow you’ll not even remember it. Our brain works like a big search engine, when you insert a new piece of information, it goes on a big stack called short term memory. When you want to remember that information, your brain will try to search inside that stack for the information you requested. This process happens asynchrony, that’s why you often remember a title of a song after many hours from your first attempt. If you are trying to recall something after a long time (it can be even 1 hour for useless information), your brain will have an hard time finding it, as it’s more likely you have forget it. Knowing this, we can try to understand why we forget what we’ve learnt just a few hours ago. But what happens when you try to recall something you’ve previously learnt? What does this mean in practice? How do you keep track of new stuff? Enter the learning log
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101 Signals: Want to Know Business? These Are the Only People You Need to Follow | Wired Business Business These are our favorite sources of news covering the world of business and finance. From macroeconomics to microlending, these folks are all money when it comes to delivering high-value information. If you’re drowning in noise, let WIRED’s 101 Signals be your lifeline. These are the core nutrients of a good data diet. Download the OPML file to import our signals into your preferred news reader, or automatically add them to Digg Reader. If you want to see where technology is headed tomorrow, follow the collective pool of money that powers it today. Dave Birch is one of the few people tracking the global economy’s shift to digital payments in a way that’s neither DMV-dull nor Bitcoin-bananas. When Bernanke talks, the smart money listens to Bill McBride. Yeah, email is a nasty old fire hose of forwards, fallacies, and who the f@#! Along with his business partner Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz has been building megabucks companies since the ’90s. Illustration: Nishant Choksi
10 WAYS TO BECOME MORE CHARISMATIC by John Leonard In the foreword to his book Top Performance , Zig Ziglar cites research done by the Stanford Research Institute, Harvard University, and the Carnegie Foundation which finds that 85 percent of the reason you get a job, keep that job, and move ahead in that job has to do with people skills and people knowledge, not technical skills and technical knowledge. On a less scholarly level, Lou Holtz, head football coach at the University of Notre Dame, has said that when someone meets you, that person wants to know three things: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? and Do you care about me as a person? Some believe that only after that third question is answered, do the first two take on any significance. It is an intangible quality that makes people admire you, follow you, and just want to be around you. What is it that causes people to respond warmly to some, while recoiling from others? When people think of charisma, they think of John F. Don't interrupt. Listen!
Nature Publishing Group : science journals, jobs, and informatio On learning difficult things - Less Wrong - Autodidacting process I have been autodidacting quite a bit lately. You may have seen my reviews of books on the MIRI course list. I've been going for about ten weeks now. This post contains my notes about the experience thus far. Much of this may seem obvious, and would have seemed obvious if somebody had told me in advance. But nobody told me in advance. Part of the reason I'm posting this is because I don't know a lot of autodidacts, and I'm not sure how normal any of my experiences are. Pair up When I began my quest for more knowledge, I figured that in this modern era, a well-written textbook and an account on math.stackexchange would be enough to get me through anything. But not really. The problem is, most of the time that I get stuck, I get stuck on something incredibly stupid. "Dude. These are the things that eat my days. In principle, places like stackexchange can get me unstuck, but they're an awkward tool for the job. The thing I miss most about college is tight feedback loops while learning.
21 Easy Hacks to Simplify Your Life | Zen Habits “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.” – Henry David Thoreau By Leo Babauta If you’re trying to simplify your life, it’s best to follow the four simple steps I’ve outlined before — it’s just the simplest method. But sometimes life gets in the way, and you need a workaround, some way to get past your usual obstacles and to trick yourself into keeping things simple. I use these “hacks” myself (in this case, “hacks” refers to workarounds or tricks to reach your goal), and I’ve found them to be effective in many cases. Also, don’t try to implement all of them — that would be far from simple. Simple tricks to simplify your life: Three-box decluttering. “Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.” – Edwin Way Teale
Accuracy and precision Accuracy is the proximity of measurement results to the true value; precision, the repeatability, or reproducibility of the measurement A measurement system can be accurate but not precise, precise but not accurate, neither, or both. For example, if an experiment contains a systematic error, then increasing the sample size generally increases precision but does not improve accuracy. The result would be a consistent yet inaccurate string of results from the flawed experiment. A measurement system is considered valid if it is both accurate and precise. The terminology is also applied to indirect measurements—that is, values obtained by a computational procedure from observed data. In addition to accuracy and precision, measurements may also have a measurement resolution, which is the smallest change in the underlying physical quantity that produces a response in the measurement. Quantification[edit] With regard to accuracy we can distinguish: Precision is sometimes stratified into:
Lies We Tell Kids May 2008 Adults lie constantly to kids. I'm not saying we should stop, but I think we should at least examine which lies we tell and why. There may also be a benefit to us. We were all lied to as kids, and some of the lies we were told still affect us. So by studying the ways adults lie to kids, we may be able to clear our heads of lies we were told. I'm using the word "lie" in a very general sense: not just overt falsehoods, but also all the more subtle ways we mislead kids. One of the most remarkable things about the way we lie to kids is how broad the conspiracy is. Since we all agree, kids see few cracks in the view of the world presented to them. The conspiracy is so thorough that most kids who discover it do so only by discovering internal contradictions in what they're told. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. I remember that feeling. Protection Sex (and Drugs) Innocence Death Identity
Crowdfunded Science Is Here. But Is It Legit Science? A crowdfunding campaign for a brain imaging study closed Monday after raising almost $80,000 toward a unique goal: the first functional magnetic resonance images of the brain on LSD. The Beckley Foundation, a UK-based charitable trust that promotes research and awareness of psychoactive drugs, will use the money to scan volunteers who’ve dropped acid. Such are the sacrifices people will make for science. Now, it’s little surprise scientists studying the effects of illicit drugs must sometimes find unconventional benefactors—or that thousands of people would invest in seeing the brains of volunteers tripping balls. But in recent years, crowdfunding has grown increasingly popular among researchers in nearly every field. In the US, most scientific funding comes from the government, distributed in grants awarded by an assortment of federal science, health, and defense agencies. On its own, the fact that scientists are seeking new sources of funding isn’t so weird.
Early Retirement This article addresses the joys, challenges, and some practical aspects of retiring young. The author retired in 2001, at the age of 37 (same age as Rossini when he retired). The Depressing Truth Ask a wage slave what he'd like to accomplish. Why hasn't he accomplished all of those things? So he has no doubt that he would get all these things done if he didn't have to work? Suppose that the guy cashes in his investments and does retire. Retirement forces you to stop thinking that it is your job that holds you back. Be Happy or You're a Loser In olden times, the average person didn't expect to be happy. This article is written primarily for Americans. Suppose that you are retired. The idle rich in the old days were truly idle. Interaction with Other Humans Most jobs come with a social life. If you've got a spouse and kids, you're all set. The author has been personally fortunate in several respects. Travel: No to the Beach; Yes to the Organized Tour Non-profits are NOT the Answer Investing