vkolencik

4 ms·

1.
by vkolencik 3y ago
The same point expressed beautifully by Jocko Willink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyMEQMt6yAw
2.
by vkolencik 6y ago
2 is possible (Preferences > Interface > uncheck "Allow only one instance").
3.
by vkolencik 7y ago
Your rare awareness makes me hopeful that it's withing your power to turn your life around. Anyways, this makes a good argument why IQ is largely inconsequential in the real life: https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-l
4.
by vkolencik 7y ago
They are not organized by BPM range.
5.
by vkolencik 8y ago
This is discussed in the book Incognito by David Eagleman. I remember reading about someone learning to "see" with their tongue. Along the same line, his team developed a vest which translates information into vibration patterns o
6.
by vkolencik 8y ago
This idea is expanded in Taleb's "Surgeons Should Not Look Like Surgeons": https://medium.com/incerto/surgeons-should-notlook-like-surg...
7.
by vkolencik 12y ago
It reminds me of how old German books written in Schwabacher used roman typeface for Latin and other foreign words. In this case, it was intentional, but I have always found it a bit irritating from the aesthetic standpoint. For example: h
8.
by vkolencik 12y ago
I especially like the clever analogy with genetics. Douglas Hofstadter said something along the lines of analogy being more powerful when the two concepts it connects are otherwise very distant from each other.
9.
by vkolencik 13y ago
One concept I really like for teaching Go (and I think it would be a great addition to this site) is the "Go teaching ladder": http://gtl.xmp.net/ It lets you submit a record of your game and people who are just a