Imagine you wake up, tired and sore. You’re still groggy, but not sleepy, and you feel there’s a lot that needs to be done. How do you 1) find out what to do 2) actually become capable enough to do it? One key idea is that you are an animal. That means your ability to … [Read more…]
Vision and Eye Movements 2012-02-02 Stanford “All these topics are covered in the book.” “You have an upside down action-potential.” “The permeability for different ions never goes to zero.” “Just memorize the anatomy and understand the concepts.” “Don’t memorize everything in the book.” “Perception is an interpretation of reality.” “This is the mantra driving cognitive … [Read more…]
The brain has many ways to categorize and structure information. This demonstrates there is no one way for intelligence to operate. In fact this is verified many times. Octopus and dolphin brains are very different. Octopuses have no spine: the only hard part of their body is the beak they eat with. Yet both are … [Read more…]
Bioinformatics 2012-02-03 Stanford “Very similarly…” “So this is the difference in the two algorithms.” It’s better to be doing addition rather than multiplication of small numbers. viterbi epsilon “To put it a little bit in an example, imagine…” “Now I’m running on reserve power so that’s not zesty.” Sorry, I didn’t understand the question. “The … [Read more…]
2012-02-03 Stephen Laberge on Lucid Dreaming Stanford Cultivate your own internal garden with lucid dreaming. How we can use lucid dreaming to study the mind? nightmares and personal development prescriptive memory the key to lucidity is remembering “It’s just a matter of practice.” “You don’t believe yourself when you say some things, rather you want … [Read more…]
Seek an environment that stimulates you over the long-term. It’s important to do novel things in all areas of life: intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and physical. Each enlightens the others. All the parts have a function and deserve your attention. Look at your hands right now. You’ll see the adaptations for tree-climbing, prairie-walking, and tool-using. This … [Read more…]
How do you know what will actually give you happiness? Is there a truth that will tell you in practical terms what to do with your day? I don’t think there’s a direct answer that works for everyone. In fact this is what gives you value. You decide what’s important and how to get there. … [Read more…]
The state of your mind is fully dependent on the state of your body. If you aren’t taking care of your body nothing productive will come from your mind. It’s really that clear-cut. This is because the mind’s evolutionary role is to aid the body. When animals in the past helped the mind but hurt … [Read more…]
Stephen Wolfram “Science, Mathematica, and the Making of Wolfram|Alpha” 2012-02-12 4:15pm Wolfram Recording “People just create crap data.” “It at first seems a little crazy.” “This seemed very interesting thing to do, but it’s very hard.” “Every ten years or so I re-asked, is it now possible to do this?” “If you have an operation … [Read more…]
2012-02-01 Stanford physical exercise impacts all those negative things VO2Max: maximum oxygen consumption you have a lot of control over how fit you will be probably not working that hard there is a threshold of disability in sedentary life, where you can’t take care of yourself they are having trouble keeping up their training as … [Read more…]