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One of the few speakers I saw as an academic and said to myself "This guy is a time traveler. I need to really pay attention to what he's saying." That was in
by robg 12y ago
One of the few speakers I saw as an academic and said to myself "This guy is a time traveler. I need to really pay attention to what he's saying."
That was in 2001. A decade+ later and we're still trying to catch up.
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- TheCoreh 12y agoThis precisely describes the feeling I got when watching the video. He consistently provides explanations/examples that make complete sense in hindsight but are pretty hard to come up with in the first place. I feel like this video kinda deserves a "spoiler alert" of sorts because he just exposes many of the things and it ends up looking so obvious afterwards. Not obvious in a "yeah the brain certainly works like that" way, because we don't know that yet, but obvious in a "I really wouldn't be surprised if it worked like that" way.
- eli_gottlieb 12y agoAnd this is why I <3 the MIT CoCoSci group et al. Serious nerd-squee levels, here. The whole damn clique of labs have these simple, obvious, clever ideas that are just miles away of everyone else trying to nudge their error rates a few points lower.