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by alankay1 10y ago
This is a worthy goal, and I think quite possible. Note that Biology requires a lot of organization in order to do this, so it is likely not to be straightforward from where we are. But we had to make the Internet -- etc. -- self-healing in
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Yes, it is possible. It is partly developing a kind of fluency that is very similar to sight-reading music (this is a nice one to think about because you really have to grok what is there to do it, and you have to do it in real time at &quo
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I think it is first a recognition problem -- in the US we are now embedded in a pop culture that has progressed far enough to seriously hurt places that hold "developed cultures". This pervasiveness makes it hard to see anything e
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by alankay1 10y ago
This is a terrific question, and I'll try to do it justice tomorrow morning.
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Worth looking at Bob Balzer's EXDAMS system at Rand in the late 60s early 70s.
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by alankay1 10y ago
Yes, this is precisely what I meant here, and it's a very interesting set of ideas for education. I can't articulate a great goal yet.
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by alankay1 10y ago
Try doing some after images and see what happens ...
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by alankay1 10y ago
Yes, that was what I was driving at. Anyone could do physics in the Middle Ages -- they just had to get a pointy hat. A few centuries later after Newton, one suddenly had to learn a lot of tough stuff, but it was worth it because the result
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by alankay1 10y ago
Yes ...
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A lot more good activity here than on Quora ...
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by alankay1 10y ago
Yes, it was MACOS. A very good book about this is "Politics in the Classroom". There is actually quite a lot of stuff on MACOS on the web, most of the materials, etc. Bruner wrote a number of outstanding essays as part of the MACO
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by alankay1 10y ago
With a good programming language and interface, one -- even children -- can create from scratch important simulations of complex non-linear systems that can help one's thinking about them.
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by alankay1 10y ago
I'm saying that you don't see what is on your retina, but something that is manifested by your brain (and this is why you can see images when you dream). So I'm guessing that there is a path for you to imagine images. It coul
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by alankay1 10y ago
Exactly -- this is why people are tempted to choose an increment, and will say "at least it's a little better" -- but if the threshold isn't actually reached, then it is the opposite of a little better, it's an illu
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by alankay1 10y ago
Hi Folks Thanks for all your questions, and my apologies to those I didn't answer. I got wiped out from 4:30 of answering (I should have taken some breaks). Now I have to. I will look at more of the questions tomorrow. Very best wishes
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by alankay1 10y ago
"No one owes more to his research community than I do" I lucked into the ARPA community 50 years ago (without even knowing that it existed). A good start is to find people and places that are doing things you think are interesting
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by alankay1 10y ago
Not proteins, but cell to cell (this is still an interesting mechanism to contemplate and develop ...
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If you are not blind then you can see pictures. So this would be interesting to follow up ...
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by alankay1 10y ago
There are some good old sci-fi stories about your last question. People in my process are optimists. People in my position who spend a lot of time trying to improve education are realists.
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by alankay1 10y ago
1. Yes for the most part. The exceptions are also interesting. 2. Haven't seen anything above threshold yet
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by alankay1 10y ago
Smalltalk and some other languages have all three -- easy to do if the system is a "certain way".
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by alankay1 10y ago
I used to sleep about 5 hours a night well into my 50s, but then started to get respiratory infections, especially brought on by plane travel. After many years, my sleep habits were examined and I was told to get at least 8 or more hours a
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by alankay1 10y ago
Interesting people, even as students, leave trails in various ways
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by alankay1 10y ago
"Criticizing reasonably" takes much longer than praise -- and my reactions to this question are "critical"
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by alankay1 10y ago
Everyone should get fluent in "real science" and many other things come along very nicely with this -- including the kinds of programming that will really help most people.
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by alankay1 10y ago
I've written and talked a lot on these subjects, so let me suggest you look at the Viewpoints website, YouTube, there's a TED talk, etc.
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by alankay1 10y ago
"What Fools these Mortals be!" Puck meant that we are easy to fool. In fact we like to be fooled -- we pay lots of money to be fooled! One way to look at this is that the most important learning anyone can do is to understand &quo
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by alankay1 10y ago
Seymour Cray was a man of few words. I was there for three weeks before I realized he was not the janitor. The "Chippewa OS" is too big a story for here, but it turned out that the official Control Data software team failed to com
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by alankay1 10y ago
Too large a subject -- sorry!
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by alankay1 10y ago
Respectfully ... I think you missed the point of my answer.

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