More Emails to the World
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Famous People and Their Weirdest Habits
🇩🇪 Albert Einstein – Never wore socks
🇬🇧 Isaac Newton – Stuck needles into his eyes
🇮🇹 Leonardo da Vinci – Slept only 20 minutes every 4 hours
🇮🇹 Galileo Galilei – Licked rocks to identify minerals
🇬🇷 Socrates – Stood motionless for 4 hours thinking
🇬🇧 William Shakespeare – Signed his name differently each time
🇬🇧 Elizabeth I – Ate so much sugar her teeth blackened
🇺🇸 Thomas Edison – Slept only 4 hours daily
🇺🇸 Benjamin Franklin – Took naked “air baths”
🇬🇧 Isaac Newton – Stuck needles into his eyes
🇮🇹 Leonardo da Vinci – Slept only 20 minutes every 4 hours
🇮🇹 Galileo Galilei – Licked rocks to identify minerals
🇬🇷 Socrates – Stood motionless for 4 hours thinking
🇬🇧 William Shakespeare – Signed his name differently each time
🇬🇧 Elizabeth I – Ate so much sugar her teeth blackened
🇺🇸 Thomas Edison – Slept only 4 hours daily
🇺🇸 Benjamin Franklin – Took naked “air baths”
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One of my favorite lessons from neuroscience
When you start something new, it feels like a struggle and requires your entire focus to figure out. But as you get better, it gets easier and you need far less brain power. Things become automatic and you can dedicate your brain to other tasks.
In the image below, you can see how the brain becomes more efficient at the exact same task as people go from a novice to skilled over the course of a single 60-minute practice session.
If something feels difficult, just keep at it. Things that once took me weeks, now take me minutes.
paper: https://mrbartonmaths.com/resourcesnew/8.%20Research/Cognitive%20Psychology/Brain%20Changes%20in%20the%20Development.pdf
In the image below, you can see how the brain becomes more efficient at the exact same task as people go from a novice to skilled over the course of a single 60-minute practice session.
If something feels difficult, just keep at it. Things that once took me weeks, now take me minutes.
paper: https://mrbartonmaths.com/resourcesnew/8.%20Research/Cognitive%20Psychology/Brain%20Changes%20in%20the%20Development.pdf
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Disney's CEO is in a "no-win" situation
CNN's media critic, Brian Stelter, says Disney's CEO is in a "no-win" situation because he has to choose between Trump and his company's reputation.
Think about that -- the notion that choosing integrity means losing. Think about what it says about American media in these grotesque times.
Making the honorable choice might mean losing some money. But having history remember you as a quisling to fascists and a traitor to human rights? That's a vastly greater defeat.
https://lnkd.in/g8nsuqhV
Think about that -- the notion that choosing integrity means losing. Think about what it says about American media in these grotesque times.
Making the honorable choice might mean losing some money. But having history remember you as a quisling to fascists and a traitor to human rights? That's a vastly greater defeat.
https://lnkd.in/g8nsuqhV
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Student Boty - smart strategy ;)
With remote classrooms it’s easier to enroll in a program with say stolen identity credentials. The use case? Qualify for financial aid.
Enroll in courses, fill up waitlists so even real students cannot take those courses.
I grew up in competitive class enrollment system that often required rapid refreshes only to find out the class schedule you meticulously planned is ruined because you didn’t get one popular class you needed.
Imagine that x1000 harder since now you compete with bots trying to get free financial aid.
The current best use case for AI is propagating fraud because fraud detection has always lagged behind. Colleges now need some enrollment validation task force to make sure enrollees are indeed real students.
Wild and disconcerting.
Enroll in courses, fill up waitlists so even real students cannot take those courses.
I grew up in competitive class enrollment system that often required rapid refreshes only to find out the class schedule you meticulously planned is ruined because you didn’t get one popular class you needed.
Imagine that x1000 harder since now you compete with bots trying to get free financial aid.
The current best use case for AI is propagating fraud because fraud detection has always lagged behind. Colleges now need some enrollment validation task force to make sure enrollees are indeed real students.
Wild and disconcerting.
express, not stress