Very early I found that multiplexing between tasks has advantages. Exams rarely are sequential, questions can be linearly related thus reading these globally will improve your knowledge of the problem, or non-sequential therefore you can and should average time allocation for them. Nowadays I don't do well with multitasking, right now I'm listening to a talk about emotions effects on cells, while browsing 12 tabs. I think this is related to a difficulty of focusing and deep concentration leading you to switch to other tasks as soon as you feel stuck. Just like an exam. There's a limit above which multiplexing fails, it's well known in computers, too much multitasking means no work done, all energy is spent in context switching.
Now I just recalled something I did in high school, whenever I was new in class and had nobody to waste attention with , yet bored with most of the details of the course, I filled the 'interest' lacking by rewriting the course in my own term with some sort of organized presentation. Indentation, color schemes, columns, commentaries. It was the same content but twisted so the main information I cared about was the center, and expressed by words and structure. This kept me deeply interested in the subject by trying to find a clear and concise way to put out my mind model, while testing it at the same time for some holes.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Monday, March 26, 2012
brain antipatterns
Since I keep hitting walls whenever I try to learn something, there might be a pattern in my brain response to new stimulus.
2 cases :
- I manage to follow the first lesson, my confidence builds up to the point of shutting down my brain. The second lesson I can't barely understand anything. The end.
- I don't see the point of the subject, my confidence builds down to the point of shutting down my brain. There's no lesson two.
Gotta re-educate this cramped muscle of mine called cortex.
2 cases :
- I manage to follow the first lesson, my confidence builds up to the point of shutting down my brain. The second lesson I can't barely understand anything. The end.
- I don't see the point of the subject, my confidence builds down to the point of shutting down my brain. There's no lesson two.
Gotta re-educate this cramped muscle of mine called cortex.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
society economy organization energy costs
energy is related to our understanding of cosmos (as in order of everything)
we labelled it with the notion of cost which is derived from that understanding
nowadays nanotech opens the road for constant absorption of energy (heat , electricity)
we can pick and transfer small amounts at every moments
we also built more efficient devices that would require amounts in this range
human work ~ energy, also depends on our understandings of things.
crowdsource is kinda this nanotech idea
we can leverage human activities as energy
we just have to provide a sufficiently conductive medium/infrastructure for their little amount of work to be gathered, transfered, aggregated, cross-corelated.
now things would appear almost free, and people would enjoy life while contributing at the same time
we have a lot of wasted time, and lots of desire to build and make changes but the 'job' barrier is too high and unjustifiedly so.
we labelled it with the notion of cost which is derived from that understanding
nowadays nanotech opens the road for constant absorption of energy (heat , electricity)
we can pick and transfer small amounts at every moments
we also built more efficient devices that would require amounts in this range
human work ~ energy, also depends on our understandings of things.
crowdsource is kinda this nanotech idea
we can leverage human activities as energy
we just have to provide a sufficiently conductive medium/infrastructure for their little amount of work to be gathered, transfered, aggregated, cross-corelated.
now things would appear almost free, and people would enjoy life while contributing at the same time
we have a lot of wasted time, and lots of desire to build and make changes but the 'job' barrier is too high and unjustifiedly so.
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