m_i_s_t

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by m_i_s_t 11y ago
Ha! I thought everyone without images had a sort of stylized geometric visualization instead of images, but maybe different people 'substitute' differently, some with music, some with geometry, some with ??
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by m_i_s_t 11y ago
That's easy to answer without images. Either by reasoning your way out of it, or more plausibly, with this kind of 'geometrical imagery' that comes instead of images. I 'see' a sort of figure-stick elephant and can
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by m_i_s_t 11y ago
This is not about memory, it is about what you can access consciously. Those of us who have no image in our minds have memories of our houses, cars, friends, etc. just like you do (as far as I know!), they are just not part of our conscious
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by m_i_s_t 11y ago
This is supposed to be a 'condition' and an 'inability'? I have this and have always associated it with an enhanced ability to think abstractly, and more generally intellectual facility. I had never met anyone else havin
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by m_i_s_t 12y ago
There is little point in an argument for or against a supposed 10k rule. The point is about the balance between genetics and practice, and the article makes a cogent argument that the "10k camp" has overstated its case for 'p
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by m_i_s_t 12y ago
Err... no? "chess players differed greatly in the amount of deliberate practice they needed to reach a given skill level in chess. For example, the number of hours of deliberate practice to first reach “master” status (a very high leve
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by m_i_s_t 12y ago
Concerning your: "the Project Management Tools that are out there weren't making us happy. In fact we hated the whole lot of them. Bloated, slow, ugly to look at and unintuitive, we just couldn't stand the sight of them a mom
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by m_i_s_t 13y ago
how do you reconcile "I don't know any good reasons for using Bayesian methods" with the fact that Bayesian methods revolutionized spam-filtering? (or maybe you disagree they did?)
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by m_i_s_t 13y ago
even apart from the difficulty of "fire fast" that you point out, how does one reconcile "Hire friends and friends of friends" and "fire fast" without bringing rampant destruction in relationships and personal life?
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by m_i_s_t 13y ago
Much of what you write here is perceptive, until: "Things are terrible right now for cognitive 1-percenters who want meaningful, interesting work (i.e. an upper middle class salary isn't enough, and it's never "stable" for top-0.x-percent i