17 JAN 2018 by ideonexus
80/20 Rule for Production VS Consumption
As James explains, you can read everything you want about waking up earlier—from sleep habits to the Circadian rhythm—but when the alarm goes off, the only thing that matters are the strategies you’ve actually tried.
“The biggest issue around the myth of ‘I need to learn more’ is that somehow learning and doing are mutually exclusive. And they’re not at all. You should certainly be taking in new information and exploring continually. But you also need to be exploiting the infor...Folksonomies: productivity
Folksonomies: productivity
1 08 JUL 2016 by ideonexus
5 ways to maximize your cognitive potential Andrea Kuszewski
1. Seek Novelty
There is only one trait out of the "Big Five" from the Five Factor Model of personality (Acronym: OCEAN, or Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism) that correlates with IQ, and it is the trait of Openness to new experience. People who rate high on Openness are constantly seeking new information, new activities to engage in, new things to learn—new experiences in general [2].
2. Challenge Yourself
Efficiency is not your friend when it co... 1 
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What Is Learning?
Learning is very difficult to define. It is the matter of our minds, and includes thinking, becoming aware, imagining, seeing, hearing, hoping, remembering, abstracting, planning, and problem solving (Malone, 1991). Learning is deep in our species, emerging from our desire to take in new information by actively exploring new territory. Learning is a physical phenomenon, occurring in the sensory systems, as energy from light waves and vibrations in the air is converted into electrical impulses... 1 notes
notes03 NOV 2015 by ideonexus
Schemata
Not only does background knowledge grow in the brains of our students through their experiences,
but the vocabulary words that are stored as a result of such experiences provide avenues
to comprehend the curriculum from the text, as well as lecture and discussion. We can look at the
work of Piaget (1970), who concluded that we organize information in our brains in the form of a
schema, a representation of concepts, ideas, and actions that are related.
Schemata (the plural of schema) are form... 1 notes
notes24 JAN 2015 by ideonexus
Energy Needed to Power Civilization
The numerical results of my calculations show that the quantities of energy required for permanent survival and communication are surprisingly modest. For a society with the same complexity as the present human society on Earth, starting from the present time and continuing forever, the total reserve of energy required is about equal to the energy now radiated by the Sun in eight hours. The total energy reserve contained in the Sun would be sufficient to support forever a society with a compl... 1 notes
notesThere is an overabundance of energy in the universe.
31 JUL 2014 by ideonexus
Memory Systems as a Shared Resource
This inspired them to depart from testing memory for lists of words and events, and to explore the amount of rich, in-depth information remembered by couples about experienced events. They found these social exchanges led to clear collaborative memory benefits, which could take three forms:
“New information” such as finally snatching an elusive name of a musical thanks to a chain of prompts between the two parties.
Richer, more vivid descriptions of events including sensory information.
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1 24 DEC 2013 by ideonexus
Predictability and the Base Rate
Whenever a statistician wants to predict the likelihood of some event based on the available evidence, there are two main sources of information that have to be taken into account: (1) the evidence itself, for which a reliability figure has to be calculated; and (2) the likelihood of the event calculated purely in terms of relative incidence. The second figure here is the base rate. Since it is just a number, obtained by the seemingly dull process of counting, it frequently gets overlooked wh...Folksonomies: predictability
Folksonomies: predictability
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notesKeith Devlin explains why the accuracy of tests and measurments must take into account the base rate for the phenomenon.
19 DEC 2013 by ideonexus
Understanding Awe
It can be hard to generalize what people consider jaw-dropping, but Vohs says research demonstrates what consistently creates an awesome experience. Travel ranks high. So does gazing at the cosmos on a clear night or watching a sensational film, as well as anytime we encounter massive quantities: colorful tulips in bloom, a bustling market in India, or a stunning school of fish.
Novelty and perceptual vastness forces us into the present moment. The study underscores the importance of cultiva... 1 notes
notesThe sense of wonder has health benefits, may open us up to learning new information, but what is it exactly?
20 JUN 2013 by ideonexus
1991 Definition of Primary and Secondary Information Sources
Information may be categorized into primary and secondary material. If information is new and has never been published before it
research, new legislation and survey results, like government
is termed primary. It includes original statistics. Primary
information is always up-to-date, detailed, accurate and specialized. Consequently, fewer people want to use it and it tends to be expensive.
Information produced when scientists re-work primary material for a special purpose, like writing a ski...Folksonomies: information sources
Folksonomies: information sources
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notesInteresting to observe that WWW is still mostly working with Secondary sources, news coverage and articles about the primary information, instead of going to the mostly readily-available primary sources.
19 APR 2013 by ideonexus
Science as Power, Kept in Writing
In sedentary and peaceable societies, astronomy, medicine, the most simple notions of anatomy, the knowledge of plants and minerals, the first elements of the study of the phenomena of nature, acquired some improvement, or rather extended themselves by the mere influence of time, which, increasing the stock of observations, led, in a manner slow, but sure, to the easy and almost instant perception of some of the general consequences to which those observations were calculated to lead.
Meanwh... 1 notes
notesEarly scientists pursued science for power, and committed it in written form.
