vkolencik
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Comment · 3 years ago
The same point expressed beautifully by Jocko Willink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyMEQMt6yAw
Comment · 5 years ago
2 is possible (Preferences > Interface > uncheck "Allow only one instance").
Comment · 7 years ago
Your rare awareness makes me hopeful that it's withing your power to turn your life around.
Anyways, this makes a good argument why IQ is largely inconsequential in the real life: https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...
Comment · 7 years ago
They are not organized by BPM range.
Comment · 7 years ago
This is discussed in the book Incognito by David Eagleman. I remember reading about someone learning to "see" with their tongue. Along the same line, his team developed a vest which translates information into vibration patterns on the torso: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/could-this-futuris...
Comment · 8 years ago
This idea is expanded in Taleb's "Surgeons Should Not Look Like Surgeons": https://medium.com/incerto/surgeons-should-notlook-like-surg...
Comment · 12 years ago
It reminds me of how old German books written in Schwabacher used roman typeface for Latin and other foreign words. In this case, it was intentional, but I have always found it a bit irritating from the aesthetic standpoint. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua%E2%80%93Fraktur_dispute...
Comment · 12 years ago
I especially like the clever analogy with genetics. Douglas Hofstadter said something along the lines of analogy being more powerful when the two concepts it connects are otherwise very distant from each other.
Comment · 13 years ago
One concept I really like for teaching Go (and I think it would be a great addition to this site) is the "Go teaching ladder": http://gtl.xmp.net/
It lets you submit a record of your game and people who are just a bit better players than you are review it and point out obvious (from their point of view) mistakes. Everyone's games are reviewed by someone above them in the ladder, therefore most people are both students and teachers at the same time.
I think it would be possible to use this concept for teaching chess as well, and maybe to some extent even programming.