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I was begging for something like this in ice skating class, where they would just be like "watch me do left foot, rotate shoulders, turn 180, extend leg". Too l

I was begging for something like this in ice skating class, where they would just be like "watch me do left foot, rotate shoulders, turn 180, extend leg". Too long of a sequence to remember without a reference, too hard recognize the long sequences as composed of the same basic movements. I liked the discussion of how Chinese symbols remain readable even when pronunciation shifts, while phonetic alphabets become unclear -- helping Chinese culture be more rooted in the past.

ColinWright 8y ago
> I was begging for something like this in ice skating class, where they would just be like "watch me do left foot, rotate shoulders, turn 180, extend leg". Too long of a sequence to remember without a reference, too hard recognize the long sequences as composed of the same basic movements. This is, in part, why we ended up developing SiteSwap. Being able to communicate and remember juggling sequences was really hard, and the notation made a huge difference. The emergence of the underlying mathematics was a bonus.