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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 a…

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 Syst…

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 "p…

> 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, …

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 authors…

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 th…

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 be…

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 vi…

> 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 …

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 …

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…

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…

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 illustr…

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 N…

"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…

> 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…